LED's are seriously efficient.

They are so primarily because they do not produce any noticeable heat.  In fact about 90% of the energy used to light a filament based incandescent light is used to produce heat! Most of us know that electric heat is not a viable solution, especially at today's home electrical heating prices.

Enter eBay. 

After scrounging around the internet, I came across some LED bulbs on eBay, that not only fit my E26 MR16 bulbs that are used in the exterior lighting of my home, but they were affordable. I have 3 of these nasty E26 based M16 sized bulbs in the eaves of my house, bulbs that my electritian picked out and they used to cost me about $12 to $20 a pop to buy. There were a specialty item that no one stocked and I had to buy them online from a specialty outfit.

LED QUEST COMPLETE

I came across the suckers pictured below, M16 size E26 Base 110v (standard US Home voltage) bulbs, the seller was selling them in pairs for about $18 a set, delivered. I only needed 3 but I swallowed it and bought the extra one.
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Here are the specs:

Base: E26 (standard light bulb)
Size: MR16 (just the ones I needed for my lighting application)
Power usage: 1 Watt (vs the 35w incandescent or 12w fluorescents I had used before)
Estimated Life 100,000 hours! vs 1000 for the incandescent or 8000 for the Fluorescents)
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LED, Incandescent & CFL Usage & Cost Comparison

Here were my calculations and the $0.18 that LIPA is charging me per KWH:

The Money Saving Pay Off

According to my calculations, over a 10 year period, these 3 LED's are going to save me about $1100.00, including the cost of the bulbs and the cost of the electricity! How frikin' sick is that, 3 Light Bulbs. Not to mention the, get this - 90 Incandescent bulbs I would have had to replace, or 11 fluorescent bulbs I would have had to replace. Which means with the LED's its that much less time climbing a ladder or crawling on the roof risking breaking my damn neck!{mospagebreak title=The Life of the LED}

The Life of the LED Light Bulb

Aside from the energy savings, the life of these is about 1000x that of the incandescents, or based on my 8 hour a day average usage, is 34 years!

LED Life: 34.24 years (God Bless LED Lighting)
Fluorescent Life:2.74 years (Nice Try)
Incandescent Life: .34 years (YUK)

Here is the lifetime Break Down!  

Thats a savings of 100 Trips to the roof vs incandescent

Here is my plan

As the development of LED light bulb continues, I plan on replacing as many of the incandescent bulbs in my house with the more energy efficient LED Light Bulbs.  When you consider that over the next 34 years I will save almost $4,000 on 3 light bulbs, what choice do I have. With an average LED Light Bulb Savings on 3 bulbs of $114.00 or $9.35 per month

That money in the bank adds up to $10,193 at 5% over a 34 year period.

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The LED Pictures

Where to Buy Household LED's

I bought mine through eBay because I had a difficult time finding exactly what i wanted. However, I now have a resource for purchasing them:

These guys have a great selection and I especially like the 2800K Warm Spots for my accent lighting & kitchen.

LED Efficient Light Bulbs - Money Saving