LED vs Incandescent Lighting

The edibles must be starting to kick in huh?

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dark sucker

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Sounds like my buddy’s old girlfriend that used to hang around the basketball team after her cheerleading practice ended.

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Installed 8’ LED shop lights and the least surge blows them out. Maybe I bought crap but they don’t come close to the hours they are supposed to last.

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The actual LED lasts a long arse time

The shite Chinese drivers do not

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Installed 8’ LED shop lights and the least surge blows them out. Maybe I bought crap but they don’t come close to the hours they are supposed to last.

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Feels like you wired them wrong if a power surge impacted anything but the transformer. If a power surge blew the transformer, then you for sure bought a crap transformer.

What degree kelvin we talking boy?

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Installed 8’ LED shop lights and the least surge blows them out. Maybe I bought crap but they don’t come close to the hours they are supposed to last.

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I just counted, and I have about 45-50 LED bulbs installed in my house. 4 of them are outside in Louisiana humidity.

The oldest ones (about 2/3 of them, including the outside bulbs) were installed ~8 years ago. Of the first batch that I installed, 6 of them (which again includes the outside bulbs) stay on literally 24/7/365 and I haven’t had to replace a single one. That’s like 70k hours.

I think in total we’ve probably replaced 5-6 LED bulbs, and they’ve all been el-cheapo bulbs my wife bought for the bathroom or ceiling fans. The vast majority have blown the rated life expectancy out of the water.

I attribute the difference in reliability, compared to others’ experiences, to two things:

1. You get what you pay for. All of our original bulbs (and most of the bulbs today) have been Philips brand, which are decidedly not the cheapest option.

2. You have to pay attention to the fixtures you’re using. Just because a bulb fits in a socket, that doesn’t mean it will actually work for any reasonable amount of time in that fixture. LED bulbs hate heat. It’s a little counterintuitive because LEDs generate very little heat, so people don’t really think about overheating. But they need to be able to dissipate the little bit of heat that they do produce.

The most common cause of failure is installation in poorly-ventilated fixtures such as fully-enclosed recessed can lights that were originally designed for incandescents. If you’re installing LEDs in any fixture that’s enclosed on all sides, or recessed, you really need to make sure that fixture will actually work with LEDs. Sometimes this means you have to replace the fixture, unfortunately.

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Installed 8’ LED shop lights and the least surge blows them out. Maybe I bought crap but they don’t come close to the hours they are supposed to last.

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Most of my LED's are going on 9 years old. I have one socket that kills a bulb in a day or two, but the rest are fine for 30 or so lights. LED's don't like dirty power. Some people can't use LED's due to their power supply and unfortunately the "climate change" idiots have virtually banned incandescent lights.

Fun fact there are 100+ year old incandescent light bulbs still burning. The Biltmore House still has original light bulbs running. Major electrical manufacturers in the 1920s colluded for planned obsolescence and made them artificially disposable with short life spans

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