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Originally Posted by MTI
While the LED portion of a lamp or fixture does not "generate" heat in the way an incandescent bulb does, there is some from the built in drivers that are converting the 110 VAC house current to either 12 or 24VDC that the LEDs require. Heat sinks and cooling vents are built into many bulbs. However, they're nowhere as warm as a 60W will get in a table lamp.
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Point taken, but as a non-scientist, a 60 watt equivalent LED is cool to the touch.
I'd burn my fingers if I touched a 60 watt incandescent or flourescent.
In the summertime, the six recessed cans in my kitchen ceiling generate a ton of heat with the old halogens or flourescent.
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