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My anecdatum is that I bought CREE LED replacements about five years ago and I've had to replace more than a few already as they have started failing.
by RRWagner 7y ago
My anecdatum is that I bought CREE LED replacements about five years ago and I've had to replace more than a few already as they have started failing.
- foobarian 7y agoI had a few batches that failed at a high rate. The most interesting one was a fixture with 3 candle-format LED bulbs that all failed at the same time! Clearly some power surge/power supply related event.
- xbmcuser 7y agoLed tech has improved in the last 5 years. So experience with led of 5 years ago might no be the same as led of today or even 3 years ago. My boss converted his house to led 5-6 years ago I did around 2 years ago. We had a huge discussion about it when our office was being renovated recently. He had to replace about half in the first couple of years of install I have had to replace none so far.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoI put a variety of LED bulbs (Ikea dumb + smart, Philips Hue, some no-name brand of T8 drop in replacements) about four years ago and only one (an early Philips Hue) has failed — even that's a soft failure. Meanwhile I've lost one T12 and one T8 in that period (despite only having four FL bulbs in service). Plenty of the LED traffic signals around here have dead LEDs though. Those lasted a surprisingly short amount of time. The thing is, as bad as the waste is — I'd much rather chuck out LED bulbs than CFL/FL.
- taneq 7y agoHmm, mine were OMRON I think. Cost about AUD $5 each.
- apple4ever 7y agoAbout 3 years ago I bought a ton (~20) of Cree LED lights. Almost all of them have failed at this point. The GE ones and the later Cree replacements have faired much better however.