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In 2007, Google gifted their employees one of the latest in LED light bulbs, "just because". I remember LED bulbs being very rare at the time, and we ended up w
by timcederman 9y ago
In 2007, Google gifted their employees one of the latest in LED light bulbs, "just because". I remember LED bulbs being very rare at the time, and we ended up with two of them somehow.
1 failed within 6 months, the other is still used daily as a bedside lamp 11 years later.
- dingaling 9y agoI have had the same experience with LEDs. If they make it past the first few months they'll keep running for years. I assume it's a QA issue.
- taeric 9y agoProbably more a power quality issue. It is amazing how inconsistent the flow of power is in most people's homes. In large because it didn't need to be consistent in the past.
- b5 9y agoThat's been my experience of LED bulbs -- either they die quick or last years. I bought a dozen of really cheap Chinese ones about 2011 or so. More than half died within 6 months, another crop in under a year, and I've got two of them that are still running fine 7 years later. They run probably 12 or 15 hours a day every day of the year.
- hazeii 9y agoHave you compared the brightness against a new LED of the same model? My experience with many higher-power (60-100w equiv.) bulbs is that they are quite a lot dimmer after a year or two of heavy use.
- tome 9y agoA very long bathtub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve