New LED bulbs

After the recent loss of the 4 LED bulbs to lightning:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/08/lightning-strikes.html 

I replaced them with 4 bulbs stolen from other fixtures inside the house.  So I went on Ebay looking for replacement LED bulbs and found these:

The idea is that instead of the snow-cone style (where the LEDs sit on an aluminum circuit board) of LED bulbs like the ones that were damaged, I thought that these newer style bulbs with the two long "filament" style of LEDs would be perfect for the bath:

The problem with snow-cone bulbs is that they are more like a spotlight, the light shines in a smaller than 180 degree arc.  With the filament style bulbs the light has a much wider arc.  This is perfect for bath vanity style fixtures:

where a set of bare bulbs is able to shine down (and up) as well as straight ahead.  This makes them more useful since there is a higher light level when leaning into the mirror to see something up close.

These particular bulbs seem to work well, the light is cooler (less yellow) but as with all new bulbs they are bright.  I took the old bath vanity bulbs and used them to repopulate the empty sockets and have some to keep as spares.

The only bad thing is that the filament style bulbs are more expensive.  Apparently they may have helium gas in the bulb for better heat transfer ?  Also, the patents for LED bulbs may not have expired requiring royalty payments ?

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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