Our new house has nearly two dozen can lights filled with 65w incandescent spot bulbs. While they are nice and bright, they seem to be an energy hog.
The test plan will be the replacement of the five incandescent bulbs in the kitchen- (5 @ 65w= 325wph replaced with 5 @ 14= 70wph). That will be an electricity savings of 79% per hour! My basic calculation anticipates a savings of 5-6 cents per hour, but over time that savings will really add up. If these work out, I’ll continue to replace rest of the bulbs.
In our last house I had installed regular curly bulb CF’s in all of the fixtures and it seemed to save us a lot of money. I don’t think the curly bulbs would look good in the cans in this house, so I purchased a six pack of 14w CF soft white spot bulbs (TCP Compact Fluorescent BR30) at Home Depot.
It may take a little time to adjust to the brighter/ whiter light, but I suspect they will work well in our application.
