LED Replacement bulbs

[jay]

I have put in some "puck lights" into cabinets at the bottom of my stairs. When you turn on the lights for the stairs these illuminate nicely.

The problem however is that I seem to be going through a great deal of lights and at $7.00/bulb this is going to break me. One of my buddies is a cabinet maker and he says that these things are a constant pain in his side. Everyone wants them but the opening/closing of the cabinets along with the trapped heat cause the bulbs to blow in 50hrs not the 2000hrs as promised.

So the question is - is there a replacement LED available.

The bulb is a 20w 12v Halogen - 2 pin model.

The part number on the Philips package is 51345-7 along with BC20W12vCapsule/TP
A cursory search for these numbers on the net didn't turn up anything.

I was wondering if anyone has a x-reference or could direct me to a site that does.

[Buzz]

Jay try lightbulbemporium.com

[Ron (r273)]

Jay here is another source, don't know if it will help any.

http://www.ledtronics.com/Default.aspx

Ron (r273)

[Bettor Slots]

Those halogen bulbs are very sensitive to oil from your finger tips if you are installing them without gloves or some form of barrier.

[Brianzz]

If those are the same bulbs I'm thinking about yes they are a pain in the ass. At one of my other jobs they've installed then in track lighting and in fixed ceiling lighting and get at best about 30 hours of out them

[jay]

Just to bring closure to this. Both places were able to supply bulbs but warned me that they would be much less in Lumins.

The traditional trick is to provide clusters of lights to give similar light output but in this case a bulb of the same form factor will produce less than 3w of light compared to the existing 20w.

I really hate describing lights in terms of watts vs lumins especially since the compact florescents are a 15w energy consumer but put out the equivlent to what a traditioal 60w bulb will output.
Give me lummins    as a comparison not energy consumption...... 

[stayouttadabunker]

The going conversation around hunting camps at the moment is:

"Well, MY monster beam puts out 1 million candlepower of light up your alley"...