Need help with ceiling fan at house

[Plumber1]

Looking to replace my old ceiling fans in a couple of rooms. My question is the current ones have 4 - 60 watt bulbs. All of the new ones are LED and 15 watt or so, how do I compare these minimum watt lights to my current 240 ( total ) watt lights ? I don't want to have less light on the rooms.

Thanks

 

[TJ Jim]

Are they built in LEDs or replaceable screw in LEDs ? If they are replaceable and screw in, when you go to the hardware the box will state comparable to a 60 watt bulb. If they are not replaceable bulbs you are pretty much screwed on brightness. I personally like the bright white bulbs better than the warm white but I’m old and going blind. I replaced all the fans in my home with the wife’s choice of built in LEDs and hate them. Very poor light output.

 

[KennethS]

You can't really compare wattage between incandescent and LED for light brightness. You need to compare the lumens, which is an actual measurement of the light output (wattage is a measure of the energy consumption). For incandescent bulbs with the ratings we are accustomed to, the light output increases as the energy consumption (wattage) increases.

 

[TJ Jim]

@KennethS is spot on. But the boxes of light bulbs at Lowe’s do compare them.
https://insights.regencysupply.com/...t-is-the-same-brightness-as-my-old-light-bulb

 

[KennethS]

One thing to note with comparison charts like that are the huge ranges for the lumens "equivalency". The first line has a 40W bulb and shows the comparable LED light has 300 to 600 lumens. That means one 40 Watt "comparable" LED light could be twice as bright as another "comparable" 40 Watt LED light. So keep that in mind and if you want bright light, go for the higher lumens.

 

[Zorba]

Multiply LED wattage by 8 to 10, to get fairly close to equivalent incandescent wattage. Most newer LED 'bulbs' are closer to 10. The big jump was incandescent to fluorescent - that was X4. LEDs halved that again (thus X8) when they first came out, but newer ones are a bit better and are around X10. So your 60 watt bulbs can be replaced by a 6 watt (-ish) LED.

 

[Plumber1]

Are they built in LEDs or replaceable screw in LEDs ? If they are replaceable and screw in, when you go to the hardware the box will state comparable to a 60 watt bulb. If they are not replaceable bulbs you are pretty much screwed on brightness. I personally like the bright white bulbs better than the warm white but I’m old and going blind. I replaced all the fans in my home with the wife’s choice of built in LEDs and hate them. Very poor light output.

There are built in

 

[Plumber1]

@KennethS is spot on. But the boxes of light bulbs at Lowe’s do compare them.
https://insights.regencysupply.com/...t-is-the-same-brightness-as-my-old-light-bulb

If that's the case they swan 60 watt = 600 - 800 Lumens so 4 x 60 watts = 2,400 - 3,200 lumens. One of the fans we were looking at not going to be very close.

• Integrated 15 watt LED light. 1,350 lumens. 3000K color temperature. 80 CRI.

 

[CreepinDeth]

DO NOT buy anything with an integrated light. (planned obsolescence fukkery)
Always buy something with serviceable bulbs, E27 base preferred. (Most common anywhere)

As to the question of LED bulb wattage to Lumen output, this is a general guide.
LED's use a FRACTION of the energy and provide waaaaay more lumen output

https://www.ballarddesigns.com/trends-features/features/guide/led-bulbs-brightness/

I buy all my bulbs in bulk from Costco personally. Cheaper
Also make note, there's a Kelvin scale, which determines the color.

3000 Kelvin is your common "Soft white" that you grew up with , a little yellow tingey
5000-6000 Kelvin is your "Pure white" that is the new era more desireable color.
The whiter the light, the more it illuminates IMO.