Carefully grip the halogen bulb and gently twist it counter clockwise until it can be pulled from the light socket.
Change halogen bulb to led.
An led bulb can provide as much light as a halogen bulb with a wattage consumption that is five times lower.
Usually the packaging of led bulbs includes a fairly accurate.
The lifetime of led bulbs is five to ten times longer that of halogen bulbs.
Here s a halogen bulb for sale that is advertised to replace a 100w incandescent actually rated lower at 1320 lumens.
The light output of an led bulb is also much higher.
Led bulbs rated at other figures between 1400 and 1600 lumens are out there but 1521 is a common figure.
If you re interested in switching your halogen downlights to led you may be able to just replace the bulb but in certain cases you ll need to replace the bulb s power supply.
Step 3 insert the new led bulb into the socket and gently turn it clockwise until tight.
Led bulbs are much more efficient in terms of wattage consumption as compared to halogen or incandescent bulbs.
The eu effected the ban on grounds of energy efficiency and consumer savings.
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These bulbs can be stored for later use or discarded.
There weren t so many of these around in led form a few years ago but now they re widespread.