I don't care much for laboratory results for LED efficiency, show me something I can purchase today with LED area lighting that does anywhere near 100 lumens/watt. The best area lighting LED fixture I've found so far is the Cree LR6, which is 50 lumen per watt - I have a few, and they're 'ok.' Not pleasant in a home theater however, due to their cut off of dimming at 20%. A typical *CFL* on the market today will do 60-75 lumens per watt, which still is well ahead on efficacy for LED area lighting.
I hear a lot of pro LED folks like you, and trust me, I want them to be a high quality product, but for area lighting (not spot lighting), they downright suck.
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GeekPl is on crack. There are no CFL bulbs that do 100 lumens per watt.
Also, there are LED lights pushing over 100 lumens per watt. check out the website www.ledsmagazine.com
I didn't say CFL - I said fluorescent. Big difference.
If you look around, the Sylvania Pentron Ecologic Fluorescent T-5 will do between 103 and 108 lumens per watt - 20,000 hour service life.
http://www.servicelighting.com/EiKo-81152-F28T5-841
I don't care much for laboratory results for LED efficiency, show me something I can purchase today with LED area lighting that does anywhere near 100 lumens/watt. The best area lighting LED fixture I've found so far is the Cree LR6, which is 50 lumen per watt - I have a few, and they're 'ok.' Not pleasant in a home theater however, due to their cut off of dimming at 20%. A typical *CFL* on the market today will do 60-75 lumens per watt, which still is well ahead on efficacy for LED area lighting.
I hear a lot of pro LED folks like you, and trust me, I want them to be a high quality product, but for area lighting (not spot lighting), they downright suck.