LED Lights - Keep going out

Is it an LED fixture or are you putting in LED bulbs?

Heat is the killer of LEDs. Scrap the bulbs and get the retrofit adapters, they have bigger heat sinks for the LEDs. Fixtures we have to use the bulbs in do the same as yours, all our retrofitted cans are going on 4 years now w/ no problems. Our chandeliers are also going on 4 years, but obviously there is a lot of airflow around those bulbs.

Not sure this is your issue but many LED bulbs have very slightly smaller/shorter bases than the incandescent bulbs.

Not sure why that's the case but it often keeps them from making a solid contact.


I had problems with them burning out quickly in many older fixtures and solved the issue by making sure to slightly bend the center contact inside the socket out a bit with needle nose pliers before putting the LED bulbs in.

Home Depot LED can lights

I use something like these for our can lights and I've had them for almost 5 years with zero issues. Some are even in an upstairs area where it gets pretty hot in the summer.

thanks i'll give those a shot

Those retrofit kits work great I did all of mine 2 years ago, no issues yet.

I have a ton of can lights in my house and went all LED with retrofit kits when I built. I used the CE from Home Depot with selectable color temperature for all the bathroom and outdoor areas so I could have a whiter light. For all my others, I used Sunco kits off Amazon. They were a little cheaper, and had more lumens. All were dimmable LEDs as well.

Been installed for about 2 years now, and I’ve only had one go bad.

Buy the Commercial Electric retro fit trims in the link above. If you want a ton of light, buy the high output version here:

Lumen and Color Selectable