Replaced all the spots in my house with these a few months ago last time they were on offer. Noticed a drop in electricity usage and they are far brighter than halogens. Light beam is a bit tighter but brightness makes up for it.

£1 at poundland (funnily enough!)

I tried out some of the Poundland GU10s (in both 3W and 5W flavours) recently and have found that they are perfectly good, to the extent that I've now started fitting these (also the SES candle bulbs and BC globes) everywhere instead of the packs I normally get from Screwfix (I'm an electrician). Obviously I can't vouch for the longevity yet (and will not be able to for a few years), but in every other respect they seem every bit as good as branded makes such as Phillips.
It almost goes without saying that users should convert from incandescent or halogen bulbs to LED wherever possible (and save 90% of their electricity bill on lighting), and now that perfectly good replacements exist in many sizes for only £1/unit there is no excuse whatsoever.
I'm going to have to vote cold on this, there is no point paying three times as much for a similar product.

I don't think I'll ever need those weirdy ones with the 2 pins sticking out the bottom but the normal bayonet ones are £8 and considering the 100W equivalent are £12 usually that's a pretty okay saving - though I do wish they'd come down more - this technology wasn't invented last year.

Hi all, wickes diy selling GU10 LED 3 for £6.

BC globe LED bulbs are £1 each in Poundland. They work just fine.

Don't suppose you have a pic of a box for the poundland LED bulbs that you use chap? We've got a few stores in Bristol and apart from the normal stuff like chocolate and can drinks they don't exactly sing from the same song sheet if you know what I mean lol!

I have to go that way this morn, so I'll pop in and buy a few.

Am I right in saying you can not just swap led for my current halogens? Do all the transformers need swapping out?

If you've got transformers, then they're 12 volt halogens. GU10 are 240 volt. It's much harder to find decent 12v LEDs.

Agree totally with you. I've been using poundland/poundworld ones now for well over a year, and before that the cheapest was home bargains at £2 - I have some of those and they've been going for 3+ years with no issues.

6x 5W GU10 for £9.99 in Homebase.

Just out of curiosity - How bright are the ones in poundland comparing to the ones in B&Q? Can anyone check the box for lumen value?

Of course if you are a rebel, go to poundstretcher's and get one of their frosted old school bulbs for 49p. Like this one, only it's 49p.

No idea how they are still allowed to sell them, I guess they aren't :smile:

The clue is "heavy duty". These are rough-service bulbs, designed for use in inspection lamps and the like. The filament has extra supports, and that allows them to side-step the regulations. Perfectly good for ordinary fittings, if you like wasting electricity.

Bought some and they exploded after a few weeks ! Take care

Are G9s among those on offer? I had a look on the B&Q web site linked and G9s are £6 each. I have 8 just in my kitchen. Has anyone come across usable/affordable G9 LED bulbs? I bought a pack of 10 from Amazon for £10.80 but they were unusable - a very weird white, strobing, dim light which makes you feel like you're in a 1930's movie. Since I can get good halogen ones for £1.99 for 10 I've gone back to those. I have replaced all the commonly used lights in my house with LED apart from these G9s in the kitchen, so if anyone knows where I can get warm white, bright, non-strobing G9s at a decent price I'd appreciate it.

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5W candles are 330 lumen

... so the price differential over the £land LED is 51p, or about 3 KWh, which is enough energy to run this bulb for 30 hours, hence the LED pays for the difference in about a week. In my experience LEDs last much longer (at least 10 times as long) than incandescent bulbs, so the running costs are even lower.

These are 220/240V AC bulbs. If you have transformers then they are probably 12V, so you cannot run these in the luminaires.

Great! need one of those :smiley:
B&Q Philips 5.5W GU10 are 350lm

Now how many lumens are there in the GU10 LED bulbs sold at poundland?
Don't really want to make it all the way to Poundland to find 100lm lighbulbs

I think you may have misunderstood: the £land 5W LED candles are 330 Lumen.

These dimmable?

Many dimmers may struggle - transformers may need replacing... Etc etc

Not a transformer (there isn't one, GU10 run at 220/240V) but the switch will need changing to a trailing edge type for all LEDs (I have no idea whether these particular bulbs are dimmable).

I've been looking for some for a while and just found a local electrical supplies shopping that sells them for £1.44 each so bought ten. These are 33 watts so very bright.

I've just replaced one bulb this evening, but have seen no sign of strobing. Not sure whether they deliver and there's not much on the website but I can give you the details if you like. They have offices in Gateshead, Cramlington, Middlesbrough and Notingham in case you are near one of those.

Thank you chap, any idea if they are work ok on a dimmer switch? I have 4 wall lights that use golf ball ES fitments, good to see they do SES candles, these will save me a fortune especially if I can sneak them into the kids rooms lol

Thanks for posting; it sounds interesting and excellent price, but to drive to any of those places from Bournemouth may end up being less of a bargain :smiley: If you could post the type or any markings on the boxes I could do a search for them online. The ones I bought from here claim to be 40W and don't have many bad reviews but even one placed in my bank of 8 lights stands out like a sore thumb.

Unfortunately these are not dimmable. Some dimmable LEDs are available (I've used Screwfix previously), but you will almost certainly have to change your dimmer switch for a trailing edge one like this:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/varilight-trailing-edge-push-dimmer-1g-1-2w-400w-va/94816
The reason is that leading edge switches tend to have a minimum power output of around 30-40w, which would be a lot of 3w LEDs. As you can see they are not particularly expensive, just work in a different way(and cannot generally be used for controlling ceiling fans and so on).
It is well worth converting all your BC, ES and GU10 lamps to LEDs though (particularly if you can use the £land ones - that way you can probably change the whole house for £30), you will notice instant savings on your electricity bill and the mean time between failures to for the bulbs will increase from about a year to many years.

Has anyone found any golf ball ES fitting LED bulbs from Poundland? I could only find SES and bayonet fittings and the staff weren't didn't seem to know what I was talking about!!

They are 330lm chap, I have 3 in a fitting in the hall and they are very bright, I've changed 3 candles in another room for 3w versions as it was very bright, I'm happy with them, just need to find some ES golf balls now that are dimmable if possible!