https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/vantage/Recent content in Vantage on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenSun, 02 Aug 2015 21:25:14 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2015/08/02/mr16-12v-halogen-to-led-retrofit/Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:25:14 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2015/08/02/mr16-12v-halogen-to-led-retrofit/<p>[7 years later, see update at end of post]</p> <p>This post is about my research into finding suitable MR16 LED&rsquo;s for replacing the 50W recessed halogen lights in our house. In summary, I&rsquo;ve found &ldquo;ok&rdquo; bulbs, not great bulbs, and you can read about the details below.</p> <p>Our house is about 3 years old, new construction, and one of the many decisions we made during planning was recessed halogen vs. recessed LED lighting. At the time my calculations showed the additional cost for LED lights would only be recovered in electricity cost savings after about 12 years, not worth the cost at the time. Another problem was the optical quality of the products, the near halogen optical quality LED products were ridiculously expensive, and the mainstream LED&rsquo;s were of poor optical quality, and had poor dimmability.</p>