incandescent replacement (was Re: Anyone off to VCF-UK)

[Eric Smith]

On 06/01/2010 02:38 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> There must be a way to engineer it so that the fixture to which the 
> LED "bulb" is attached acts as a heatsink for the LEDs.
Certainly that's how it's done.  But when you screw it into an enclosed 
base-up fixture, to where is that heatsink going to dissipate the heat?  
That's a fundamental problem with both CFLs and LEDs, leading to 
significantly shortened lifetimes for both, and no one has a good 
solution yet.

Eric