Lighting has really changed - yes it's more complicated, but
the energy savings are worth it, we believe. Back in 1990 we installed five
rotating recessed floods in the kitchen, and six track lites on 2 tracks in the
LR.

We were using 65 watt incandescent floods. With cathedral
ceilings that rise from 8' up to 16', it's a pain to change the bulbs!
(Especially after our ladder got stolen) Fortunately we get a lot of sunlight,
so it's all too easy for me to put off changing bulbs that are 'way up there'.

A few old replacement bulbs burned out about a year ago, so
at that time I purchased a 6-pk of the TCP brand 65W Equivalent Soft White
(2700K) BR30 Non-Dimmable LED Flood Light Bulb from HDepot. The price seemed
really good. Brought it home, put it aside for later install. Then of course I
had a senior moment and forgot we bought them.

Eventually another bulb burned out, so we stopped by Ace HW
and they had a good price on the FEIT brand 6-pk. We picked one up, came home,
and eventually discovered we had 12 LED bulbs, of two different brands. The
specs were identical in wattage, temperature, and lumens (650 lumens).

We have a hanging lamp in easy reach so we did a
side-by-side comparison of the two brands of LED floods. It was NO contest:
despite identical specs, the TCP bulb came on instantly (the FEIT had a
noticeable hesitation), plus the light quality and intensity of the TCPs seemed
far superior to the FEIT.

We ended up putting the FEIT bulbs away as back-ups and
purchased another pak of the TCPs to change all our old track lights/recessed
floods to the TCP LED bulbs. We're now using 110 watts total (11 lights)
instead of 715 watts. These old eyes are celebrating, woohoo!