Am I the only person who hates LED lighting

Well, l don't know if you were trying for comedy, and to get on the Late Show, but l found your posting amusing...except for the $150 part.  Not funny! Seems like they could use material in LED's to look like incandescents....

I would agree that the incandescent lights are more prototypical of yesteryear, but I really like the LED lighting for home, tools, train room and trains.  I just dim them down if they too bright.  I've never had one fail so far.  

I would suggest getting the "warm white" 2700K leds and try them.  

Nope; it’s LED’s for me! 👍

The only place I don’t like LEDs is headlights.

Steve

It's all about color temperature. I use 2700K LEDs for anywhere that color rendition matters, like my layout. They give me the warmer incandescent type, and "nostalgic",  feel.

In my workshop, and my layout utility lights, I use the higher degree K lights (above 3000K)  to give me a bright, almost blue, light for working on the layout.

Pay attention to this and it is easy to get the desired effect you want for different areas of the layout or home.

TJ

I prefer and use incandescent lamps on my mainly pre/postwar layout. LEDs just can't match that even light distribution and classic charm.

As for LED lighting in the household, I use flicker free warm white lamps that have the Edison screw; None of these nonserviceable LED fixtures are welcome.

I do not hate LED lighting, but they can produce visual annoying results as you mention in your post. When kit bashing and installing LED strips to my Lionel mint cars, I will include a resistor to help reduce the brightness. So far, I have experienced great success with blue LEDs.

enjoy your toy trains...

I have a mix of incandescent and Led bulbs on my layout and think LEDs are ok for certain items. For example I prefer an led bulb in my ZW and Z transformers as the incandescent 6 volt bulbs tended to burn out too often. As Don pointed out I prefer the look of incandescent bulbs.

LEDs have their place. I prefer incandescents for most applications but LEDs are best for passenger cars if you like to run long trains. Less for their color, more for their ability to save transformer power.

Pete

I'm liking them less and less for headlights.

@Norton posted:

LEDs have their place. I prefer incandescents for most applications but LEDs are best for passenger cars if you like to run long trains. Less for their color, more for their ability to save transformer power.

Pete

How were you powering the Menard's building??  Mine has lasted, now, almost 4 years w/o a hitch.  I power using a ZW (AC) transformer, through AC-DC adjustable buck converters running at about 3.5 volts DC (the Menard's power warts run at 4.5 volts DC).

I'm very nit-picky about lighting in my house - less so with my trains.  I have yet to find an LED bulb ("warm-white", "2700K" or otherwise) for the lamps and light fixtures that comes anywhere near the quality of light from a standard incandescent soft-white GE bulb of yore.

For trains, the power savings is definitely a bonus - however I wish the manufacturers would avoid the cool-white LEDs.  They do not look good at all IMO, especially when mixed with incandescent bulbs.

I haven't tried the orange paint idea, but another thing to look into is Rosco lighting gels.  One sheet and you could probably cover every bulb in your layout.  Look at the CTO (Color Temperature Orange) ones. They come in increments of light transmission to convert different white points (Kelvin) to another.  https://us.rosco.com/en/products/catalog/roscolux  

Nothing is perfect, but I don't long for a romanticized past that never really existed.

Lower power draw, longer life, and minimal heat - LEDs for me. 

I've yet to see one melt the roof of a passenger car.

I run mostly Lionel PW passenger trains and my problem was that many would barely register the interior lighting without cranking up the transformer. Then you end up with a speeding train ready to fly off the tracks. Converting some of them to LEDs improves this issue. And LEDs also help to reduce classic PW lighting flickering.

Why are you laying your head on the tracks? That is why there are so many accidents and death when a train hits a vehicle or person. LED you can see the train so get up off the track. LOL

I've been using warm white 3mm LEDs with 470 ohm resistors for headlamps. Nice bright, focused, beam that looks close to incandescent light and doesn't blind you.

Honestly, I replaced all of the 2x4 fluorescent fixtures in my train room and the difference is incredible and I would never go back.  The room is so much brighter, the lights won't cause fading as they do not emit ultraviolet rays, and I don't have to screw around with bad bulbs or starters.  I am sure the fixtures will wear out over time, but they are so much better than the old ones.  After my positive experience with the train room, I swapped out all of the incandescent bulbs in the house with the LED bulbs and couldn't be happier.  

Here is a look at the train room before swapping fixtures

Notice how the room has a yellowish look to it.

Here is the same wall after going to LED fixtures.

It is like night and day in the room.  

As for the trains, well they are prewar, so I am not converting any of those to LED.  

What's not to like about LED lighting these days especially now that they are so cheap, efficient and plentiful? Now that I am at the point of putting interiors in my buildings I am finding them indispensable.