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

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#61

That’s odd. The customer ratings heavily favored it with only 6% out of ~700 people rating it who disliked it.

I suppose it also depends on how much it gets banged around.
Cost comes into play too. A professional grade meter will cost more than one for casual home use.

#62

I use Kill A Watt meters often in my lab, in situations that do not require either (1) accurate data with traceable calibration, or (2) data sampling at a relatively high rate, such as might be required when we observe repetitive or pulsating load conditions. Most electric lighting tests satisfy both of the conditions above. (For tests that do not, we use much more expensive power metering equipment.)

We have not experienced failure of Kill A Watt in our tests. I would certainly use one for demonstrating e-watt light bulb power use.

#63

We just received a box of the led lights and man are they nice. There brighter than the 60 watt cfl bulbs I have, and they look cool. I thing this will be an amazing fundraiser for our team.

#64

We have sold a full case, and recouped a profit of 235ish dollars. The reason it is less is that we couldn’t get any purchases with 20 dollars, so we lowered it to 15, with 3 for 40.

#65

We are beginning to heavily get into selling these bulbs. I’m curious as to other teams experiences, and if they saw something similar to the above quoted text.

I’m wondering if it’s necessary to make $13/bulb (@$20 MSRP) on these when you could really get the volumes up while selling in the $15 range.

-Brando

#66

I have heard of selling light bulbs as a fundraiser. Where do people typically buy the bulbs from? I heard that you can buy them for $7.50 and charge $15 as a fundraiser. Is this something you can do through FIRST or do teams just do it on their own?

#67

It’s through FIRST. Dean talked about it at Kickoff, before the game was revealed (and it’s been going on for a year or two now).

Try http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/first-green-e-watt-saver-resources for more info (and I had a tough time finding it…)

#68

FIRST has an LED light bulb fundraiser
http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/first-green-a-modern-day-twist-on-team-fundraising-methods

#69

My team, team 358 is looking for another fundraiser, to replace our main fundraiser we cant do anymore. I was wondering how much it cost to buy the light bulbs and how much you guys sell them for. Also how successful are you in selling and making profit with them? Thanks

Team 358

#70