Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

Agreed, I believe 1538 has a fantastic display for these lightbulbs as well?

-RC

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

Well, I wasn't expecting people to be buying five at a time... Sold 12 today (including one to myself to try out), so the case has already paid for itself and then some... The rest is profit. We'll see how the rest of the case goes, and then look at the judiciousness of ordering more.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

I'll describe it now and take a photo the next time I'm in the shop!

He built a wooden box and wired in 4 light sockets (porcelain?) Each socket has a on/off light switch underneath it. They are wired in parallel and at one end is an outlet. He provided a watt meter that plugs into the outlet. The four slots are intended for use for a regular 40 watt incandescent bulb, a compact fluorescent bulb, the FIRST bulb and a competitors 40 watt LED bulb for color comparison. At the back he has attached a piece of foam board to provide a surface to show the displacement of the light from the bulbs. Because each bulb has it's own switch, you can measure the watts for each bulb individually. Or turnthem all on and measure the total output!

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

From the rest of the description, it sounds like they are wired in parallel.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

Monroe County WHERE?!!

Also, I want to say this: most of the sales tips I've seen in this thread so far is almost exactly how I used to sell band candy when I was in high school.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

Monroe County, NY (Rochester).

You hooked up candy bars to 115VAC? Cool!

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

When you turn on more than one light bulb, the wattages add up. I think that makes them in series.

But I will admit that electrical has never been my strong suit. If I really have it backwards, let me know!

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

If the bulbs were wired in series, they would not operate properly. Each one requires the full 120 volts.

The 120v light bulbs in your home are all wired in parallel, and you can turn them on and off individually, and the wattmeter on your home reads the sum of the power they use.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

So If you had a switch on each bulb in the display set up you could turn them on one at a time to show how much power they use right?

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

Right. Like so.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

That is a great visual for me! Exactly! So it's parallel then!

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

Oh, ****. For a moment there, I thought you were coming all the way out here to the Monroe County Fair. It's even larger than the Michigan State Fair.
Well, there was that one time we sold these massive sausage links...

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

One of my concerns with the FIRST light is that we don't use 40-watt bulbs much in our house; mostly we use 60-watt bulbs. This bulb is supposed to have light output equivalent to a 40-watt bulb. Our team leader tried one out and said it's as bright as a 60-watt bulb, but he used two different types of light fixtures to display them. While they both nearly blinded me, I didn't think that was a "scientific" enough test, so I devised a somewhat more "scientific" test, using the bulb my husband bought from the team. (If we like it, we'll probably buy more.)

We have a ceiling fixture in our house that had two CFLs and two soft white 60-watt incandescent bulbs. One of the CFLs was burned out. (CFLs do NOT last as long as traditional bulbs.) So I replaced the bum bulb with one of the e-watt LED lights, and turned on the switch. Cameras tend to be pretty objective about things, so I also took pictures. Here is one picture, taken from directly below the fixture. Can you tell which bulbs are brighter or dimmer? Can you tell which is the CFL and which is the LED light?

By the way, if you would like to use a larger version of this picture in your sales pitch, feel free to PM me.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

I thought the FRC LED was rated as equivalent to 60Watt incandescent.

Re: e-watt LED light bulbs - what has been your experience
 

The problem is that the light is much more directed, which is why the literature says that in downlight and spotlight applications it apes a 60W bulb, but in 'most other applications' it apes a 40W. I have one that I bought from our team to try in various applications around my house, and I find this to be almost exactly true.

In a standard lamp (where the bulb is upright), it's a bit dim -- the ceiling above the lamp is plenty bright, but it doesn't do that much for the room. In a light fixture where the bulb is at the ceiling and directed downward, it's great...

...and I think it's important to emphasize this distinction to customers when you're trying to sell the bulb if you want them to be happy with their purchase.