Crompton 5.5W E27 Thermal Plastic LED Golfball This round LED golfball bulb (so-called for its distinctive shape) requires just 5.5W of power to produce light of an equivalent quality & brightness to that of an old-fashioned 40W filament bulb. Its versatile design enables it to directly retrofit to existing installations, despite boasting a longer rated lifetime & far superior efficiency than the incandescent bulbs it is designed to replace. One of the principle benefits of LED technology is the way in which it manages to produce light in the absence of heat
- something that incandescent bulbs heavily rely on. Using heat to produce light in this way is grossly inefficient & places untold levels of stress on the bulb's components. Bulbs that employ such technology expend nearly 90% of their energy on generating heat alone & thus burn out much quicker. LED technology effectively reverses this ratio, with 90% of a bulb's energy committed to its primary function of generating light with only 10% lost as heat. To improve these proportions yet further, this LED golfball sports a thermal plastic shell that dissipates any cumulative heat even more effectively than the glass & non-specialist plastics that encase other LED bulbs. This results in a bulb that is more durable, efficient & aesthetically pleasing.