Replacing halogen with Zenigata LED’s
Hi Richard,
Yes, the order arrived promptly and the new led bulbs work great. I did look for a section on your site to write a small review about them.
Although they are quite pricey compared to standard GU10s, I’m glad I went with this model.
I used them to replace 4 x 50w bulbs and there was a very slight drop in light level (as expected), but I prefer the colour temperature as do others in the house.
The lack of any warmup time and the flicker of a normal energy bulb (not good for migraine suffers) is also a welcome bonus.
They were slightly longer than the original GU10s, but only 5 – 10mm, so nothing that caused fitting issues.
Thanks for the email, I look forward to buying from your store again.
Regards
David Lane
Hi, interesting to read this feedback. I’ve got to buy 20 of these bulbs, and I’m currently hesitating between the Zenigata and the Brilliance V3 6w, which is slightly cheaper. I wonder what the real criterion of choice is?
Much of the answer to this issue is personal choice but I’ll try and be honest – the light from the Zenigata is a little warmer, the wide beam angle provides a very even light pool and they are a little shorter. It’s interesting to note that whenever we have demonstrated these lamps in Hotels for example, they have always gone for the Zenigata BUT don’t run away witht he idea that the 6w lamp is a distant second – it isn’t.
Some people prefer the look of the 6w lamp but that’s personal choice.
Hope this helps.
Greetings!
I am currently looking around at replacement GU10 down-lighters. My relatively new 2005 built house has 40 x 50watt GU10′s, 2kws of lighting, which could be reduced to 160watts, but at an out-lay currently of 880 pounds on your website.
I’m struggling to complete a cost/return/term analysis?
Secondly having further researched these new Zenigata wonder bulbs I find that there are 4 in the series, from warm white, thro white to 2 colour temperatures of cool white. Comparing them all for lm output and given the fall of 7% over 10000hrs, I would probably go for the “white” which gives an initial output of 540lm’s, equivalent almost to a 60W bulb. Unfortunately you don’t seem to stock these, listing only warm white and cool white! Why?
Thanks for any answers you can give to me?
Incidentally in your previous response you say that the Zenigata is warm in colour temperature, but Brilliance produces more heat and therefore wastes some of the energy, with a higher heating risk. In the Brilliance spec sheet it states a surface temperature which might be a worry in certain applications.
Roger
Thanks for your response.
The difficulty with these high power lamps is that without doubt they are expensive however the have halved in price over the last 24 months and I assume in the fullness of time they will get cheaper, however until that time we are where we are and unless you use lamps for long periods of time it is diffucult to make a simple economic argument for them, however if the lamps are running 24/7 (and many place do this – Hotels for example) the maths become overwhelming and you would be crazy not to do it. Where the line between worth it or not is depends on your environmental views.
There are other LED modules in the Sharp range however the very powerful 6w ones are not suitable for use in a GU10 package as the small physical size of the lamp means the heat sink cannot be effective enough and so can lead to premature failure. The cool white lamps do give off more light than the warm white versions however many people simply do not like this colour – it is of course simply personal preference but you must be aware it is “different”.
There is of course no doubt that we will be expanding our range of Zenigata based lamps – we have just taken delivery of the first lot of MR16 versions which include some with a narrower beam angle (40degrees) – this concentrates the available light in a smaller area so creating the feeling of even more light.
The surface temperature of these lamps is far lower than standard halogen lamps but there is no getting away from the fact that some heat is generated though you can always touch the lamps without burning.
I hope this is helpful to you and thanks for your comments.
I have recently purchases the Zenigata warm white and really like it. My only thing is that it is still slightly longer than standard GU10′s so aren’t an absolute replacement for the recessed lights in my kitchen because they can’t be fixed in or at least I’ve not found a way to? Hopefully one day they’ll make them exactly the same. However, I have found it to be fine in some wall spots where the standard GU10 bulb stands proud anyway and looks quite swish too with the modern metal suround!