If can't buy ready made one off the shelves, find a small diameter 2 ft long bamboo and split one end to 8 fingers, wrap up each finger with rubber bands or cut rubber tube. More sturdier. Modified my kampung mango plugging technology to bulb fastener. Haha.

My first E27 Phillips LED is in service 4 years + already. On/off frequently at Kitchen and Dining area.

aeiou, last time led used to be exp now days is alot cheaper not sure does the quality drops, btw how many w unit u are using? and now days philips is not giving warranty.

My very first LED was a 7w Phillips after a massive stock clearance discount of 60% at Giant. The price after discount was around RM25-RM29. Very cheap at those days standard, more so, there wasn't much chapalang brand available.

As for the Phillips warranty, this is today Thestar Metro ad. You go check it out and update us.

thanks, most of the johor shop i go are not giving warranty for philips. current i am going to try eco living, it seems to bright. will see how later. i read the philips power factor is 0.7 in their web site spec, any one knows what this mean?

Sin Lian Wah

Remember to change ur driver/ballast too

Philips do give warranty. Just the terms and condition a lot strict.

If you in JB, look for Genuine Electric/Lighting. They are Philips distributor. Near Tmn molek I think.

Power factor with less than 1 indicates that the electricity supplier need to provide more generating capacity than actually required

Eg, a 100w with power factor of 0.6 means, you need to draw more than 100w to light up that bulb.

Ideal PF would be 0.9

SMD(Samsung chip) - 9w LED-DL -RM39 (Mr Brightman House)

This post has been edited by frequency: Aug 27 2015, 10:19 AM

Philips CFL that I bought in 2013, about 5% burned in 6 months (some as early as 1 month), 15% burned in 12 months, some just burned without noticing because seldom used. I bought it from authorized philips shop that you all mentioned but without warranty. Should I give Philips LED a try or to consider GE, OSRAM or any other brand?

Problem with electronic is that the pcb board will spoiled due to leakage from capacitor.

I have been stop using Philip CFL for over 12yrs. I have long discover it is not reliable.

I using Hitachi and Panasonic which average 2yrs lifetime.

Just got myself some Philips 10.5W (1055lumens) cool white LED receently. The brightnees is amazing, i consider 100lm/W is quite decent spec. Got 14W 1500lm bulb, however the size is too big, not suitable for my application. Will wait for it downsizing.

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Nov 18 2015, 11:41 AM

Price paid for a lesson. I had heard too some people recommended panasonic..
It just kind of weird, those called leaders of the "light" industries couldn't produce quality CFL, like philips and osram. GE bulbs still working after replacing some of the philips..

CFL as in the E47 bulb? The other CFL bulb with external ballast is very reliable lah. Almost 95% of my house bulbs are CFL with external ballast.

Those inside got electronic 1 lor. Very unreliable.

Those external ballast is PLC type. PLC type no electronic. That's why last long.

The PLC is also sometime called CFL too (to be specific is define as "Non-integrated CFL") don't spoiled the name of PLC lah

Don't no lah. Normally they called it PLC light. If you see the casing, it state PLC light also.

Not all know is PLC, some light shop seller also confuse. PLL, PLC, T8, T5 are amount most reliable light I used.

Noobie here, how to consider a light bulb as a good bulb?
Watt, lumens, power factor are??
Thanks for advising me.

If looking at the below comparison, we should choose LED? but its price very expensive?
http://www.designrecycleinc.com/led%20comp%20chart.html

This post has been edited by WahBiang: Nov 18 2015, 09:50 PM