Most of my light fixtures are still CFL, due to the high retail prices of screw-base replacement LED lamps. I have replaced a few old-school fluorescent lamp fixtures with LED strip lights and love them. I would change the plain-jane bulbs, but I don't feel the marketers have fully developed the lamps yet.
I have a feeling it will take another ten years before LED replacement lamps will fall close to the price of CFL lamps. Once the OEM's figure out how to produce more light with less heat (I believe they will), and make a power supply suited to the application, prices will come down. The market is there for the manufacturers, they just haven't perfected these products yet.
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