re: Old man rant - the new “low watt” light bulbs suck

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e LEDs are capable of lasting 10 years. The control chip may not depending on what you paid

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99% of the time only one of the LEDs is out. While I have only had one fail having seen YT videos I decided to try to fix it. Once I cracked the code of getting the diffuser off it took a couple of minutes with some very thin wire I stripped out of a piece of 22g stranded wire and some solder to wire around the dead LED (they are wired in series) and the rest worked fine. It is not as bright but it will be fine in some of our lamps.

Apparently, you can usually see the dead one as it will be darker which was the case with mine. I am not really sure it is worth the time but I was just curious.