Why not buy a pack and come back to us next year, and give us an update! How the heck would anyone know.

Yeah seems so :smile:

Anyway, my question is as follows:

Do these lights suck in darkness, like regular bulbs, thereby making the room brighter?

Only a "whoosh" straight past my sarcasm :laughing:

Thanks Sunshine!

Picked up a pack instore today having bought the individual ones at £2.50 each last week.
Pack is a bargain! 3000k 100 degree 360 lumen 5w. Fitted 6 in the kitchen and much better. Going to buy another pack

Got some more in store today.

Purchased a box of these yesterday - wow they are much brighter than the ones I got from Amazon that are already failing.

Time will tell how good they are, but for £9, worth a punt!

Bought these and they are really nice. There is a diffuser in front so you don't get a sharp bright spot. Really like them so bought another box!

Got my two boxes today, they have a white plastic body with translucent plastic lens. They are 3000k 50mm wide by 56mm height. They are a bit brighter than the standard halogen GU10 they replace. Really happy with them for the price.

Mine turned up today. Excellent light for a kitchen, maybe a bit too bright for a bedroom.

If fitting GU10 ceiling downlighters, and plan to use LEDs only, are heat shields compulsory?

Yeah..That's him.

Its a no brainer to replace halogen bulbs for LED. They will pay for themselves in short time.

Is Bigclive the one who exposed how dangerous many cheap unbranded LEDs were? Electrically live to the touch etc.

As more LEDs creep into the house I'm seeing 2700K as looking too yellow. Put in one 3000K bulb and found it 'just right'. Additionaly I found 5W too bright for a 6 downlighter bedroom situation. Took an age to track down a set of 3.5w 3000k bulbs, B&Q and the like were no help.

I can tell you this. I have these Aldi LED's and they have been running 24/7 for 2 years. No blown bulbs. Which is what I would expect from Aldi. I can also tell you that they are identical to the poundshop Electratek bulbs. And by identical I mean identical. Bigclive (an electrician who is on youtube) took them (Electratek) apart and tested them and declared them to be excellent. Incidentally I haven't had one LED bulb fail since I switched to LED's 4 years ago, and that includes the cheapies.

Do these work with Alexa or SmartThings?

Don't know what the Aldi ones are like, but I've used these from amazon before and they are good. Very similar light output to halogen and have not had any fail in over a year I've had them.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B013B4FN58

A little draft of topic.
I replaced 6 mini spots and only place I could get them home bargains, they started failing after 10 month so took them back and swapped them out, you have 12 months cover they are an electronic item not a bulb.
Swapping from old 240W to 6 led 36W total big saving

What's the quality of these like?

Have the lunatics escaped the asylum tonight? Some crazy comments!!

thanks op ordered

Good price, heat added

Cheers op, just what i needed!

Consumes five watts of electricity per hour ? thought the formula for Watts is Volts times Amps ie nothing to do with time

I just thought I would put my two-penneth worth in regarding the reliability of these LED bulbs. I'm getting really tired of seeing claims of thousands of hours life for these bulbs, especially the cheapy ones . The truth is, the LED emitters in these bulbs may last for thousands of hours but in my experience, the circuitry contained within the bulbs required to (drive) convert the A/C mains voltage down to the DC LED operating voltage in the bulbs WON'T last for thousands of hours. A lot of the cheap LED bulbs are using very cheap and nasty components which degrade quite quickly. Also, from my experience, there are failures due to to dry solder joints in these bulbs due to rubbish quality solder. I remember the days ( not too long ago ) when there were also claims of thousands of hours life for the Fluorescent low energy bulbs. They don't last as long as they should either.

Not necessarily true. Loads of reviews out there, many come with 3 to 5 year warranties. However, buy unknown brands with unknown safety certificates and there's always a risk.

These are 56mm you can just see the measurements if you zoom in to the top of the picture

These are excellent led bulbs for the price! I paid 7.99 for the 5 pack version of the same bulbs and use them in bathrooms and the hallway (I use dimmable ones in living areas). Decent build quality and only slightly longer than the bulbs they replaced but fit fine into the housing.

Thanks.

Note these are non dimmable

Watt is how much power it consumes, and has nothing to do with output. What is needed the Lumens (lm) which tell you how bright they are.
360 lm is quite poor, 450lm is about 40 watts on an old fillerment bulb. You need about 1000lm for a workbench.

Suck in darkness? Are you mad? That's not what a light bulb does, everyone knows it pushes the darkness away from it by firing out tiny pusher waves which can shove the dark at a rate of 10,000 dark pieces per second. That's why space is so dark, all these lights we have on earth shoving it all out off the planet.

Thanks needed a few more to change the last few in my house over.

Just a word of warning from a landlord who ends up replacing a lot of GU10 bulbs - I have bought many different brands over the last 2 years and one thing you need to be aware of is that normally the cheaper bulbs are longer than normal halogens.

If you are fitting these GU10's into a light fitting where the bulbs are exposed then you have nothing to worry about, but if you are fitting them into a housing, be aware that halogens were one set size, while SOME led GU10's are longer meaning they will not fit in fire rated downlights or some designer housings.

Also the cheaper one if exposed in the housing look very cheap as they are all plastic. You can get glass LED GU10's and these are nice, but very expensive. The last box i bought which are short in length (ideal replacement for bulbs in a housing) and at an OK price are:

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-LED-GU10-Non-dimmable-Metallic-Spot-Bulb-10-Pack-5W/p/146030

Note these are non dimmable.


Regarding these Aldi bulbs, as the length is not on the description - just be careful before ordering. On toolstation website they have bulbs which are 50mm long, 56mm long, 54mm long and so on... (as you can see if you only have a 52mm gap - a 56mm will not fit flush)

I highly recommend Intregal LED GU10s (google them!), they're brighter than 50w halogens and have the same colour. I spent ages researching before buying, they also won the Which award for best GU10. They're not as cheap as these, but if you want the colour to match and the light output to be good then they're well worth it. They converted my kitchen from 400w to 35w or so. With energy prices rocketing they're well worth it.

Screwfix were doing LAP LED GU 10, at £7 for ten just before Christmas, I stocked up then. I'm no longer having anxiety about the kids leaving the kitchen lights on.

I've just tested one of my LED bulbs which claims to be 12 Watts. It is drawing a current of 0.03 Amps, so the power consumption is more like 7 Watts. There is a huge amount of variability with these cheap bulbs. 2 of the 4 I picked up about 18 months ago have stopped working. They will have got much better even in that time, but I still believe they are very much hit and miss - a case of picking up a set like this and seeing what they are like in your house and from there deciding whether to try some others out.

Superb offer and came just in time as I needed to buy GU10 bulbs. Looked on Amazon and saw for a similar price regular bulbs, so 10 LED ones for £8.99 is a bargain. Thanks OP

Sorry but there are too many mistakes in that for me not to correct it.

Should read:

each new LED bulb consumes five Joules of energy per second but produces a similar amount of light as a 50Watt old-style filament bulb. it's just a coincidence that there are 10 in the pack you are buying (i.e. Using all the bulbs together means they collectively run at 50 Watts) ! or am I having a "whoosh" moment. They are almost four times more efficient (almost 100% instead of 20% - The switch mode power supply in all cheaper LED bulbs actually gets surprisingly hot over time because they are poor at transferring thermal energy).

true.people on this forum tend to just care about specs of product,and judge them by specs only.
many of them have no idea quality and performance of products can differ regardless of having identical specs.

The Aldi web site does not specify the angle of the beam - which can vary from 35 to 120 degrees (maybe more).
Very cheap though . . .
Heated.

Does anyone know the what the Kelvin range is of these?
EG: 2700k, 3000k, etc..

Damn - just paid loads for some of these

Agree wholeheartedly with this, got some (relatively) cheapo "warm white" ones and they made the place look like a hospital waiting room. Replaced them with Philips ones (thanks B&Q clearance!) and they're indistinguishable from the halogens they replaced.

Problem is it's a complete minefield out there, the specs mean almost nothing.

there is night and day difference brtween different brands.
some are very dim,some can look orange (warm white)or blueish (day light).
so not all LED bulbs are equal.
but there are LED bulbs that can look almost identical to standard halogen.

Thanks OP

3year warranty ? Hardly worth it for 9quid but then again plenty tight arises out there ?

Yeah seems so :smile:

Anyway, my question is as follows:

Do these lights suck in darkness, like regular bulbs, thereby making the room brighter?

Only a "whoosh" straight past my sarcasm :laughing:

Pretty obvious that a 10 pack of 5W bulbs is "50W equivalent" :stuck_out_tongue:

It's not until you watch the impact of low power LED GU10s or MR16s in realtime on a smart meter that you realise how much financial sense it makes to replace all the old high use ones.

Did not want to appear rude. But if you think about it, how could anyone make comment on 'quality'? This could only be answered by an electrical engineer who did some in depth analysis of the item.
LED bulbs are a relatively new item, so the research is a bit scant for us plebs who are new to them. I have been using them for just over a year. My experience is they are all okay, SO FAR.

Thanks Sunshine!

Thanks op - Ordered and Heated

ive fitted many led bulbs for customers. These will be ok if you dont have a cover round bulb but if there is something surrounding bulb they may not have a long enough stem.