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My Philips Hue LED bulbs have been very reliable. On the other hand, some cheap no-name chinese LED lamps I got off Amazon started failing after less than a ye
by tjohns 9y ago
My Philips Hue LED bulbs have been very reliable.
On the other hand, some cheap no-name chinese LED lamps I got off Amazon started failing after less than a year.
There definitely are some bad, short-life LED bulbs out there -- especially on the lower end of the market.
- Lazare 9y agoYes. I bought some very cheap LEDs of AliExpresss, but they failed quite quickly (no surprise). Name brand bulbs from my local supermarket have, so far, held up vastly better. One of the more amusing ways the cheap bulbs failed is by neglecting to use UV stabilisers, so just leaving the bulb on would cause them to degrade their own housing until they fell apart. (The other main failure mode I saw was the transformers giving out.)
- Turing_Machine 9y agoThere's a Philips LED (one of the weird looking three-lobed ones) that has been burning continuously in the entryway of my inlaws' house for over seven years. It's a 60W equivalent. I bought it for them because a) the light burns all the time (even in daylight that area is dark) and b) it's a pain in the butt to change. I think it was about $45 when I bought it. A similar model is down to $21 for a 100W equivalent now. I've got several other Philips bulbs of that type that have been in use for a long time, though not quite that long. I've never had one go out. As with you, I've had numerous cheapies go out over the same interval.
- wlesieutre 9y agoThat sounds like the bulb that Philips won the L Prize with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Prize#/media/File:Philips_LED_bulbs.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Prize#/media/File:Philips_LE...
- Turing_Machine 9y agoYep, that's the one. It produces good-quality light, too, despite what you'd think from the yellow shell color.