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It's been a busy 12 months within the lighting aisle, with the debut of latest, low-value LED light bulbs that promise to chop your property's energy draw without breaking the bank. The newest, from GE, is the Bright Stik LED, which bucks the bulb altogether in favor of a push-pop-shaped build. The price: $10 for a 3-pack (a GE representative tells me that they don't plan on selling the bulbs individually simply yet). Like the opposite main player on a budget finish of the spectrum, the Philips 60W Replacement LED , the Brilliant Stik provides a fairly compelling worth proposition. Whereas a 60W incandescent will add about $7 per yr to your power bill, the 10W Brilliant Stik will add simply $1.20. Spend $10 on that three-pack and use them for a year, and your complete cost is $13.60. Spend a buck on three incandescents, EcoLight and you'll end up spending another $21 over the course of the 12 months -- after which you will have to change them, since that's about so long as they final.

The Vivid Stiks will final well over a decade. There are just a few commerce-offs, although. The Shiny Stik isn't fairly as vibrant or as environment friendly as other LEDs and, like the Philips bulb, it is not an option that'll work with dimmer switches. Nonetheless, it is a very strong match for primary lighting setups, and at a price of about $3 per bulb (or, um,"Stik"), it's a very strong value, too. If I just wanted to exchange one gentle, I would in all probability persist with Philips, but when I am changing my bulbs in bulk, I am going to offer the Vibrant Stik some critical consideration. The GE Vibrant Stik is not the first huge model LED that desires you to suppose exterior the bulb. For over a 12 months now, the flattened-down Philips SlimStyle LED has been selling on Dwelling Depot shelves, and EcoLight products its success may serve as proof of idea for the odd-looking Brilliant Stik LED. You will soon see the two promoting facet-by-side in the house Depot lighting aisle.

Still, the SlimStyle LED a minimum of makes an attempt to approximate the general silhouette of a light bulb (from certain angles, anyway). With the Bright Stik LED, you are all in on newfangled design, no incandescent nostalgia necessary. Whether or not or not that's a great factor is solely as much as you. We're in all probability missing the point, although. Bulb or no bulb, the Brilliant Stik remains to be, nicely, a gentle bulb. Normally, you are not going to see the thing after you screw it in and decrease the lampshade. The type issue really doesn't matter a lot in and of itself. What does matter is how that kind factor impacts the standard of light, which is where my considerations lied as I prepared to check the Bright Stik out. None of that cylindrical plastic is angled downward, the way the bottom half of a spherical bulb is. I questioned if that might keep the Vibrant Stik from casting the kind of downward mild people sometimes desire to read beneath.

Luckily, that wasn't the case. With the LED hidden underneath a lampshade, I couldn't distinguish the standard of the Vivid Stik's gentle from every other standard, omnidirectional bulb. That applies to the feel and appear of the light, too. At 2,850 K, it's as heat and yellowy as you'd count on from a typical, household gentle (a 5,000 Okay "daylight" model is on the market, too, for an extra buck). The 760-lumen mild output -- whereas a bit in need of the best 800 lumen benchmark for a 60W substitute -- is lots brilliant 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 package the Shiny Stik, and easier 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.