If you look at your light fittings, you’ll probably see that it’s housing an E27 bulb – if you’ve already gone LED that is. E27 LED light bulbs are also known as Edison bulbs. It has a large screw socket, which is 27mm, and that’s what gives the bulb its name. The E27 is a screw socket and E27 LED bulbs will always fit your socket, even if the size and shape of the light bulb changes dramatically.
What can you do with an E27 light bulb?
Known as the Edison bulb because it looks like the traditional bulb you’d associate with a lightbulb moment, that’s only part of the story of the E27. E27 LED light bulbs come in many different shapes and sizes, offering you lots of options for use around your home. E27 LED bulbs can be found in ball, globe, stick, pear, candle and tubular shape. Effortlessly versatile, the E27 light bulb can even set the tone for your room. Coming in a range of retro styles, E27 light bulbs have a range of funky shapes, coloured glass finishes and filaments – just as with an old-fashioned lightbulb. Bright Light Unlike traditional or halogen bulbs that have their brightness described in terms of watts, E27 and other LED light bulbs are described in lumens. LEDs are more energy efficient because they are able to use more or their energy in the light that they make, rather than the incidental heat lost through the bulb. The savings that can be made through swapping to E27 light bulbs are considerable. Not only can you cut your energy bills at the point of using the light, but it also means that you are reducing the amount of power needed to make the electricity that you’re using. This passes energy savings – both in terms of money used to make power and in the cost to the planet – down the power production line.
Quick, Easy and Powerful
You can simply swap lightbulbs yourself. Changing is as straightforward as screwing an E27 light bulb into the correct fitting. At the Pendant Lighting Company, we have an exciting and diverse range of E27 LED light bulbs to choose from. And with fast and reliable delivery from our UK base, you’ll be under a different, more cost-effective spotlight in days.
