LampMania

During my mom in law's visit last week, she pointed out our use of too much electricity because of our lighting choices...halogen ceiling lamps.

Hubby personally chose our lamps and we have had them for 5 years now, we changed the bulb not too often making me think that its not much of a strom fresser (energy eater). Also those halogen lamps produces enough heat for us to not turn on heating his winter time. Thanks to shopwiki's all-about-lamps' pages, I was able to confirm that halogen lamps lasts only 2,000-3000 hours compared to flourescent lamps that takes 10,000hours to burn out. And halogen lamps could be fire hazards too...yaay, we should change. There are now available low voltage halogen lamps but I doubt if it would fit use at home, I've seen them as more appropriate for museums and other displays or as desk lamps, then again the fire hazard is an issue so I'm having second thoughts.

I think the best choice to use are LEDs which has many advantages over traditional light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved robustness, smaller size and faster switching. Since hubby uses leds in his workroom he might agree to it, unless the design won't be mismatched to our interior and the price won't be a problem...leds are comparatively pricey than others but worth it I guess.