Bree123

Was at HomeDepot today buying light bulbs & learned a new trick from one of their licensed electricians. If instead of buying incandescent bulbs, you buy CFB's or LED's, you can put a brighter bulb in the fixture.

Here I was thinking that if the lamp was made for a 60W bulb, that meant that I had to buy a 60W (or less) equivalent LED -- that is, an 11W LED. Turns out that 60W is 60W. So I bought 19W LED's (equivalent of 120W incandescent) & omg! It's like noon at the equator now in my sewing area.

Probably a bunch of you smarties already knew this, but I thought I'd pass it along for anyone else who was sitting clueless in their dark studio space, wishing they had enough light to sew.

Prism99

I didn't know this, so thank you for the tip!

NikkiLu

OMG - NO did not know this. Putting on my shoes now and going to town to buy new light bulbs!!!!!

IrishgalfromNJ

I didn't know either. Thanks for passing on your lighting information. I can always use more light (I'm kind of afraid of the dark).

Quilty-Louise

Another tip about the CFB lights if you want the clearest brightest "white"
light get the 6500k lumens DAYLIGHT bulbs. We get the 100w equiv. bulbs.

HONESTLY you will NOT get that "yellowish" indoor light. These daylight
6500k bulbs is like being outside on a clear sunny day.

We have been using them since we found them about 8 or so years ago.
That is ALL we use in every room of our home.

Prism99

I decided to do a little Googling and came up with this website:
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267185...s-faq-can-help

Some of the comments about the color spectrum of newer lights is very interesting, but I am finding all of this terribly complicated! At least now I understand the wattage thing. Seems like the pros are pushing getting the same lumination (citing savings in electricity because of lower wattage) more than anything, but for me it's invaluable to find out I can get more illumination from a 60-watt fixture than was previously possible. Dh and I were looking at lamps recently, and he was complaining that they were all 60-watt lamps!

joe'smom

Thank you so much! I did not realize this either.

sewmini

Thank you...need all the light I can get!

nativetexan

Hmmm, if i ever get the burned out flood type light bulb out of the track lighting in my sewing room, i intend to get some daylight type in it's place. And the good bulb too. they fit the fixture so well i can't even get my fingers around it to remove it. even had the electrician who came today to do the yearly ck on my furnace, to help me and try to remove the bulb. She couldn't either. i know i got one out before, so try and try again. I need better light!

Sewnoma

We have several can lights in our house that are like that too, the flood light bulbs REALLY fill those sockets. I figured out that my Machingers qulting gloves really help grip lightbulbs too! With those, if I press my fingertips firmly against the face of the bulb, I can slowly rotate it and get it out (stiff fingers, rotate at the wrist). Jiggling the bulb up and down helps a little if it gets stuck and stops moving. It's a slow tedious process and honestly I'm tempted just to break it and use the old potato trick to get the base out, but so far it's worked on both the burnt bulbs I've tried it on without making me too crazy. I replaced those bulbs with LED lights rated to last 5 years so hopefully I won't be changing those particular bulbs anytime soon!