No green light for LEDs

THE EU is set to ban halogen bulbs and we will all have to use LEDs.

LEDs are a poor substitute: the light output is average and highly directional, and they are not as longlived and reliable as they are supposed to be.

I have been testing these bulbs for five years and you might just get the claimed 15,000 hours of life out of expensive GU10 25-watt equivalent lamps, but for all other LEDs it is doubtful if you will get a year’s use.

Let’s get away from rules based on poor technology and decide what we want, not what some EU not- so-bright spark thinks.

DAVE TUTT, Chatham, Kent.