How bright are LED bulb replacements?
This is the crux question as it is pointless replacing your incandescent bulbs with numerically more LEDs resulting in an identical electrical consumption. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer because; LED’s emit light in only one direction. You have to be aware of which that direction is with respect to the mounting position, the reflector and the output direction of the light unit that you are considering putting one in. Filament bulbs give out light in all directions and only now are LED units becoming available which will mimic this effect. This uni-directional nature will very often negate the effect of any reflector in your unit so an LED unit may look a lot dimmer than you would expect. Many light units will take a range of wattages of filament bulbs with the brightness increasing with the wattage. There is no such choice of brightnesses with LEDs. LEDs are sometimes available in cool white and warm white. The cool white ones give out more illumination but look more like the l
