E12 Base Candelabra Base Chandelier Sconce LED Light Bulb Warm Review

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Purchased these bulbs to replace existing 15-W incandescent bent-tip bulbs in the carriage-lights around my house (3 bulbs per fixture). First off, these bulbs are taller, fatter & bulkier than my existing bulbs -not quite as attractive. The filament (if you will) in these bulbs sits a good bit higher, once the bulb is screwed in place, which looks a little odd when illuminated, in my setup. And needless to say, there is nothing "warm" about the light emitted from these bulbs. If I'd have had the option to try these out prior to buying them -I wouldn't have ended up buying them.

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These things are advertised as "2700-3000K" but they look much whiter to me -maybe 4000K? -certainly nothing like the warm orange-y color shown in the item description. My only complaint is that they don't look as pretty as the dimmed 15W incandescent bulbs they replaced (the ones with the nice orange filament glow). But these bulbs don't look bad, just a little futuristic.

I really like their light intensity of 50 lumens per bulb; I bought them in part because these were the dimmest bulbs I could find. I installed them in a lamppost next to our front steps. The old 110 lumen incandescents were harshly bright on dark evenings, so much so that three of them together hurt my eyes when I glanced at them. These LED bulbs are pleasantly dim (though still too bright to stare at directly) -the bulbs aren't distracting when viewed from across the street, but they still provide enough illumination to make out the steps.

These bulbs are currently $11/bulb on Amazon. I'm curious to see whether I get the claimed 3-year (30,000-hour) service life out of these LEDs, especially with them being in the outdoor fixture. At current electricity rates, each 1.5W LED bulb costs me $0.92 per year if I leave them on 24/7. So if the bulbs do last three years, then it'll cost me $4.59 total (bulb cost plus electricity cost) per bulb per year.

It turns out that that's a bargain in comparison with my old 15W incandescents ($1.09/bulb, 1500-hour service life). A 15-watt bulb costs $9.24 in electricity per year when run continuously, and a 1500-hour service life means you'll burn through six bulbs each year...so the total cost for incandescents running 24/7 is $14.69 per bulb per year.

(In actual use I only ran the incandescents at night and I had to replace them after about six months. Under that 12-hour "only at night" scenario, the incandescent cost is only $6.80 per bulb per year -but that's still more expensive than the $4.59/year if I run the LED bulbs full-time. And in an apples-to-apples comparison, if I were to run the LEDs only at night [and if they last six years that way] then the total cost for the LEDs is only $2.75 per bulb per year.)

In order to get these bulbs to work I had to screw them in more tightly than I'd had to with the incandescent bulbs. At first they didn't light up and I worried that I'd received three dead bulbs, but it turns out that a little extra torque fixed the problem.

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I was looking for an alternative light bulb for my Scone Lights and I found this LED bulb.

The lumen is good but I wish it was warmer say 2700k similar to a halogen bulb color.

Great product from a good seller