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4.5
I am using this bulb in one of two sockets in a dual light fixture in my carport. I recently ordered two more so I can put one of these in the other socket in the carport. The other one I plan to use in the light fixture at my front door. Wish it gave off enough light, but with the dual fixture, two bulbs are better than one. I hope the one going in the single fixture at my front door will be sufficient. My bulb does NOT attract bugs the way other yellow bug lights do because of their heat. Hope they last a long time.Update in Mar 2014: The above was written several months ago. I have now replaced both the bulbs with other No-bug (yellow) lights that give off more light. I really like the Sylvania 60 watt energy saver no bug light that I bought at the grocery store. I now use it at the front door, and it gives off 2 1/2 to 3 times more light than this little thing did. I wish Amazon sold that bulb instead of this one. I bought the last one the grocery had. Maybe they will restock it. I replaced the one in the dual fixture in the carport with a second flood light bulb that is yellow. These bulbs did not really keep the bugs away. At night, I would see the bugs flying around the bulb, and some were lit on or near it. The bugs did not seem to be avoiding it because it was yellow. I only bought two of these because I had had such tremendous success with most other items bought from Amazon, so I thought this would be a great product, too. I should have given more weight to the product evals by other buyers. These useless bulbs are now sitting on the shelf, as I don't have a need for them. They are a piece of junk.Also, Amazon sends those requests to evaluate the product the week after it is received. I think Amazon should wait at least 1 to 2 months to ask for an eval on a product. When the eval arrives via e-mail, I have hardly gotten to use something as getting it installed, put-together, etc. takes time--when you are doing other things, too. I really did not have time to have thoroughly evaluated the product when I wrote the above eval.The promise of producing light with so little electricity is tantalizing, but you should not expect this bulb to look exactly the same as a regular 40 or 50 W incandescent bulb. Regular bulbs seem to put out light in almost all directions fairly evenly. This bulb puts out most of its light in the direction in which it is pointed (look at its cone shape). The individual LEDs protrude far enough from the cone to be visible from the sides, but they don't put out a substantial amount of light in those directions. I found that the bulb's suitability depends on the type of fixture you have.Unfortunately the fixture by my front door had a socket located on the bottom that caused the bulb to shine up into the black top of the fixture. This basically soaked up all the light and did not light the front door area well at all. I knew that if I left it like that, I was going to get complaints from my roommate!But I was not to be stopped from using this bulb, because I have been on a mission to reduce my electric bill and install in my home as many LED bulbs as possible! So I went to Home Depot and bought a new fixture (for about $40) with the socket on the top that causes the bulb to point down. Now it looks great and puts out quite a bright shaft of light down the wall. It creates a circle of light on the ground, and the brightest part has a diameter of about 3 feet. (The fixture is mounted at a height of about 6 feet.)It illuminates the keyhole in the door handle quite well, so I'm calling this a success. The only problem is... I'm not sure how long it's going to take me with the savings in my electric bill to recuperate the $40 I spent on the new fixture!!! If I could have found a used fixture, it would have been much better. I made an attempt to find a used one, but did not have time to look anymore.I think it's tremendous that they have technology like this that allows a light to use so little electricity. I have found that with LED lighting some bulbs are okay, but many are not bright enough. I think they need to use just a little more electricity and make the bulbs a little brighter. Outdoor floods are okay, because the amount of light is not critical. With indoor multiple bulb fixtures I have had to use a combination of LED and incandescent to get enough light.
