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There is a large difference in the amount of power used by a halogen bulb and by an LED. The LEDs do not get hot because they don't produce heat. Incandescent bulbs use 90% of their energy producing heat. LEDs are brighter at any color temperature. I recently switched to LED bulbs in all my table lamps (some general info on the link), which goes a long way towards giving shades longer lives as well. LEDs are not necessarily 'replacement' bulbs when switches are made for incandescent or halogen lamps. You may have been shocked because the bulb was not properly seated or because there is more current coming into the receptacle than the bulb is using. Those doing renos now are lucky to be able to rewire for LED and have the proper switches. Dimmers made for incandescent & halogen can be a problem with LED even if it's a dimmable LED bulb. Switch companies have lists of approved bulbs sizes and types for their switches. This is still emerging technology and not fully worked out. Bulbs in my hood are halogen and on a dimmer. I replaced with GE Reveals which have a 3700K color temperature and give excellent light. They are incandescent and get hot. But they are safe in the fixture and work. Safe is paramount, needless to say. I would call the manufacturer and ask if LED bulbs can be used in the hood. If the answer is yes, then which bulbs are recommended? Lowe's does a surprisingly good job on light bulbs -- at least the branch near me. I've had good luck finding any bulb I need and their house brand has decent prices. Here is a link that might be useful: Table Lamp Light Bulb Intelligence

Sunco has 4000k. I ordered them off Amazon and they deliver crisp, clean light that doesn't hurt my eyes like the 2700k ones we had. My husband thinks they are too harsh (of course, he's the one that bought the original yellow ones to begin with, so no surprise), so I ordered some 3500kfrom Westgate to try, (also on Amazon) but haven't put those in yet. Hopefully those will be just right.

Dedicated (integrated) LED lights have some significant advantages. However, one thing to consider -- if you buy one, that's what you're stuck with until you replace it with another entire integrated unit. Right now retrofit screw-in LED bulbs are still evolving rapidly. Their prices have fallen fast and far. It doesn't seem like all that long ago that a 40-Watt-equivalent retrofit bulb at $20 was a bargain. I suspect that retrofit LED bulbs have pretty nearly bottomed out in price, especially with new tariffs on Chinese goods swooping in. When CFs got to a comparable price point some years back, we started seeing specialized features added -- photo and motion sensors, for example. Now that's starting to happen with LED retrofits too. Also, the quality of light they produce continues to improve, though I'd like to see fewer hemispherical lenses and more traditional shapes, and there's less fudging on the actual lumen output and incandescent equivalence. On the downside, advertised design life for retrofit LED bulbs seems to be going down, which I suspect isn't accidental. To finally get to the point here, if you install a conventional incandescent fixture and put a retrofit LED bulb into it, in a few years you can upgrade fairly easily and cheaply with a new retrofit bulb. It'll be more complex and expensive to upgrade a dedicated LED unit, so you might be less likely to do so.