Our young daughter's bedside light was an unbranded 3W 240V mains GU10 "cool" (6000K) LED in a gooseneck lamp from 2008 up to late 2010 directed up at the ceiling as indirect lighting, replaced Sept 2010 with a Livarno 3W warm white GU10 also reviewed then later with a CFL 'kitten' lamp birthday gift, and worked well for her.
It's officially my office soldering/closework desk/work spotlight, but I don't need it most of the time and it did well in this alternate role! When I was young my bedside light was a 60W incandescent; this is safer and cooler and probably represented a distinct energy saving.
My daughter is also tester for other GU10/240V lamps that cross my path!
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Update 2007-09-23: I stopped using the 3W LED 'car modding' light as backlighting some time ago, as my warm-white 13W CFL is very comfortable to work by. However, today I noticed that my local lighting shop had in stock on the shelf a 3W white LED MR16 spotlight/lamp and the base to plug it into. I was curious to try the MR16 format, since it seems to be very popular. The light (6000K) quality/colour is OK, though seems to be the same yellow-phosphor-over-blue-LED construction that we don't much like in our kitchen 5W LED spot. This doesn't feel as watery and weak somehow. (November 2009: we rearranged our kitchen lighting a little, and using the 5W LED as a spot for our blue countertops works well.) It does not not seem to provide enough general illumination to work by (ie the lighting angle/cone is very narrow) but in a pinch might do if for some reason I find myself very short of power or the CFL breaks! (On further fiddling to set it up as an indirect uplighter, I think this could just about do as a work light, as I'm using it right now.)
Update 2007-11-07: I have been using the 3W LED MR16 as an uplighter most of the time over the last month or so, particularly later in the evening. Earlier, when the sun has just gone done, I prefer the brighter CFL sometimes. But note that I'm still entirely on solar PV powered lighting, and have not once yet run out of juice!
Update 2008-02-17: I am still mainly using the 3W LED as I have since November, but there are times such as this evening when I go hog wild and use the CFL instead!
