It has been a busy yr within the lighting aisle, with the debut of latest, low-cost LED mild bulbs that promise to chop your house's power draw with out breaking the financial institution. The most recent, from GE, is the Bright Stik LED, which bucks the bulb altogether in favor of a push-pop-formed construct. The fee: $10 for a 3-pack (a GE consultant tells me that they do not plan on selling the bulbs individually just yet). Like the other main participant on the cheap end of the spectrum, the Philips 60W Replacement LED , the Shiny Stik provides a fairly compelling worth proposition. Whereas a 60W incandescent will add about $7 per year to your power bill, the 10W Vivid Stik will add just $1.20. Spend $10 on that three-pack and use them for a yr, and your complete value is $13.60. Spend a buck on three incandescents, EcoLight and you'll end up spending one other $21 over the course of the year -- after which you may must replace them, since that's about as long as they final.

The Bright Stiks will last effectively over a decade. There are a few commerce-offs, although. The Vivid Stik is not quite as brilliant or as efficient as different LEDs and, just like the Philips bulb, it isn't an choice that'll work with dimmer switches. Still, it's a really strong match for fundamental lighting setups, and at a price of about $three per bulb (or, um,"Stik"), it's a very solid value, too. If I simply needed to replace one mild, I'd in all probability stick to Philips, but if I'm changing my bulbs in bulk, I am going to provide the Shiny Stik some critical consideration. The GE Vivid Stik is not the first massive model LED that wishes you to think exterior the bulb. For over a 12 months now, the flattened-down Philips SlimStyle LED has been promoting on House Depot shelves, and its success may function proof of idea for the odd-trying Shiny Stik LED. You may soon see the 2 selling facet-by-aspect in the home Depot lighting aisle.
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Still, EcoLight the SlimStyle LED no less than attempts to approximate the general silhouette of a mild bulb (from certain angles, anyway). With the Brilliant Stik LED, you're all in on newfangled design, no incandescent nostalgia needed. Whether or not or not that's a superb factor is totally as much as you. We're in all probability lacking the purpose, EcoLight though. Bulb or no bulb, the Shiny Stik continues to be, nicely, a light bulb. Normally, you're not going to see the factor after you screw it in and decrease the lampshade. The kind issue actually doesn't matter a lot in and of itself. What does matter is how that kind issue impacts the standard of gentle, which is the place my concerns lied as I prepared to test the Vibrant Stik out. None of that cylindrical plastic is angled downward, the best way the underside half of a spherical bulb is. I questioned if that might keep the Bright Stik from casting the type of downward mild individuals sometimes choose to read under.

Fortuitously, that wasn't the case. With the LED hidden underneath a lampshade, I could not distinguish the quality of the Vivid Stik's mild from any other standard, omnidirectional bulb. That applies to the feel and appear of the sunshine, too. At 2,850 Ok, it is as warm and yellowy as you'd expect from a regular, household mild (a 5,000 K "daylight" model is accessible, too, for an extra buck). The 760-lumen mild output -- while a bit wanting the best 800 lumen benchmark for a 60W alternative -- is a lot vivid for most primary needs. Actually, the one distinction this design makes is on GE's finish -- the slimmed down figure makes it a breeze to bundle the Brilliant Stik, and simpler for GE to ship them in bulk (particularly when packaged three at a time). All of that helps shave cents off the upfront cost, and there's nothing to not like about that.