Led replacements for 90ish mm fancy incandesents

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richms

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#169650 21-Mar-2015 21:48

I have a chrome light that has white round lamps in it. They are E27 ones.

Look like this (assuming it embeds ok)

Anyway. I want to LED the fitting.

All the ones I have found so far are either way too bright (12w x 12 will be far too much) and have only the top half of the light lit, with the bottom half dark as its where the guts are.

Ideally I guess 3-4 w would be right to replace the 25w incandescent lamps, dimmerable if higher wattage would be great, but most importantly I need the whole sphere to light up, a small bit at the bottom where it goes into the fitting dark is ok, but not 1/4 the height of it like one I saw.

Anyone seen anything in their web travels?

Bonus if its in 4000k as it is a hanging light so looks nicer with a higher temperature than a table lamp.

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#1264769 21-Mar-2015 22:42

You can get filament type LED bulbs that sort of shape, but I think they only come in clear glass.

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#1264770 21-Mar-2015 22:46

mattwnz: You can get filament type LED bulbs that sort of shape, but I think they only come in clear glass.

This is the closest I've found so far, which I want to buy for a pendant light fitting:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201264098209

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#1264772 21-Mar-2015 22:50

Niel:
mattwnz: You can get filament type LED bulbs that sort of shape, but I think they only come in clear glass.

This is the closest I've found so far, which I want to buy for a pendant light fitting:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201264098209

You can also get big globe versions of them. They use them for those pendant bulbs that hang from a single wire from the ceiling which are fashionable at the moment, although haven't seen the LED version of these filament bulbs in NZ stores yet.

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#1264801 22-Mar-2015 01:26

Nah not like that. I'm wanting totally white when off.

I've got some that come close but I didn't see when I chose the size it chose the wattage so I paid heaps for 12 ones which are insane bright. And there is a part with no light.

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#1264827 22-Mar-2015 08:28

This isn't suitable due to its voltage, but it might lead you somewhere. http://www.wayfair.com/1.3W-120-Volt-LED-Light-Bulb-BPG25-LED-RP-YJN1153.html

edit: this is more like it http://micalighting.com.au/g95-10w-80w-e27-frosted-led-lamp-240v-smd-globe.html

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#1266371 24-Mar-2015 05:36

Its so hard to tell when they dont put photos of them lit up to know how far down the light will come from the ball part.

I have ordered a couple of hopefuls off aliexpress so am waiting on them arriving so I can check them for flicker and how they fit against the fitting before committing to more of them.

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#1266468 24-Mar-2015 09:46

Similar to the problem I had with lamps for ceiling pendants - where I wanted dimmable, omnidirectional LEDs, ideally in a 90mm E27.
Philips do make these:
http://download.p4c.philips.com/l4bt/4/420853/slimstyle_a-shape_dimmable_led_420853_ffs_aen.pdf
There's a 78mm diameter 13W 2700k version, but I don't see a 4000k option in that style. Whether they're even available in NZ and in 230v is another question.
Where the entire bulb is visible in a pendant, these might look okay. Most alternatives - apart from the "filament type" - which don't seem to be available white or frosted - have a large visible plastic base containing the driver circuits etc. Perfectly fine in a "reflector style" fitting where only the top of the bulb is visible but the rest hidden - but awful if the whole bulb is exposed.