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This was a quick easy transaction. It occurred to me that my beloved Reveal bulbs might become hard to buy and I truly detest the light from CFL bulbs. I am also in pursuit of 100 watt bulbs.
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GE, Sylvania-Osram, Philips... of all the major bulb manufacturing companies, I've never been too particular because they all function the same provide light. If you would come to my house, you'd see bulbs from all 3 different manufacturers. However in this instance, I purchased these bulbs because:1) Incandescents are now banned and becoming harder to find.
2) CFLs, despite energy efficient, are roughly 400% 800% more per bulb than incandescents
3) The most important, my wife wanted all the bulbs to match in each room. (Because of the price of CFL, I can't afford to spend over $400 to make all the bulbs in my house match.)
When I came across this item on Amazon (the 48-pack), I did my match calculations and saw that these bulbs came down to exactly $1 each. If you buy a 4-pack from Amazon, such as GE 48689 75-Watt A19 Reveal Bulbs, 4-Pack, you're paying $6.98, or $1.75 per bulb. So I saved 75 cents per bulb by buying this in bulk. But I'm questioning if I made the right choice...
You see, when I received my bulbs from Amazon, they came in a box with all 48-bulbs in individual 4-packs tightly fitted to the box. However, there was no padding whatsoever and the box seems to have been slightly abused by the carrier. I already gave a poor review on Amazon's shipping for this particular item but I'm not docking any stars because what I'm reviewing here is the bulbs themselves. But I can't help to think that the impact of the box moving around via the carrier has somehow related to the fact that I received bad bulbs. Yes, I've had bad bulbs already.
I immediately removed 2 4-packs and used 8 bulbs throughout my house to replace the current lighting. 2 of the 8 bulbs were bad the filament was somehow dislodged and you could hear the filament move around in the bulb when you shake the bulb. Furthermore, I know these bulbs were bad because in the case of frosted bulbs (which is just a powder-like coating, I saw the filament remove the coating on the inside as it moved around (looks like an Etch-A-Sketch). So because of this, I'm already down by $2. Again, I'm not docking the review, but just letting you know that 2 of my 8 bulbs tested so far are bad. Makes you wonder how many others are bad too in the box I haven't tested...
Anyway, the bulb itself when lit, is less warm than the standard incandescent light bulbs. I know the Neodymium coating on the inside is supposed to filter the natural yellow color of incandescent lights and it does filter it out to a degree, but not completely. Comparing two bulbs side-by-side, incandescents typically have a color temperature of 2700K to 3000K. Despite my bulbs being advertised as "full spectrum", I don't think they are. I have full-spectrum CFLs and those bulbs look snow white. These GE Reveals appear to be about 3200K 3500K. That range is still yellow and to remove the yellowness without going blue, you have to hover around 4000K.
If you prefer incandescents, I can recommend the Reveal bulbs & they are probably as close as you'll get to "white lights" before you start using CFLs & other lighting technologies.
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