Thanks, Danny.

For the record, the main purpose of selecting LED is to *avoid* fire.... 
the existing halogen light charred a hole in to the top of a cupboard 
door when the door was left open under the light for about 10 minutes. 
The door is literally missing an half-inch and another half-inch is 
blackened and charred like burned wood.

So, avoiding fire is the primary motivator.

Doing so while maintaining a 'pleasant' quality of light is the second 
motivator.

The third motivator is cost/availability.

I will do more research in to CFL. Perhaps there is something in there 
that will work.

Rolf

Danny Miller wrote:
> Well, there's a lot of crap LED bulbs being made now too.
>   
...


> There is no clearly high quality, useful, and affordable LED fixture.
>
> Look up:
> http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/
> Full of LED enthusiasts.
>
> Kaidomain/DealExtreme carry a lot of remarkably cheap LED fixtures.  But 
> they ARE usually crap.  Read the reviews for them.  You should probably 
> consider the slight risk that one could start a fire due to defective 
> ballast.
>
> Danny
>
>   


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