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I've had good luck with Cree, Home Depot's brand. I don't think any of them have died since I converted about five years ago. Lowe's is stocking GE these days
by snapetom 7y ago
I've had good luck with Cree, Home Depot's brand. I don't think any of them have died since I converted about five years ago.
Lowe's is stocking GE these days, but I'm not familiar with their quality. The reason I'm not familiar is that they exclusively stocked Feit initially, and yes, those things are pure garbage. They had high failure rates and were not "instant on" compared to others. I stopped buying them and switched over to the Home Depot brand.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI've tried a few of the GE bulbs over the years, and the quality and CRI is always not that great (sometimes easy to tell by taking photos with a good camera and seeing how little color you can get out of certain channels). Cree bulbs have always been pretty good, and Phillips bulbs have been the best. There are a few other brands you can get online that have better rendering (CRI), and are more accurate to the stated color temperature over time, but they cost sometimes double what even the Philips bulbs cost. I also wanted to add a data point that I've switched every light in our house to LEDs over the past decade, and only had two bulbs (out of maybe 50+) fail in that time—both were in outdoor fixtures which range from 10-100% humidity, and -10°F to 110°F through the year (quite a torture test).
- mceachen 7y agoJust another speck of anecdata: I've had to replace almost all of my < 10 years old, <~10k hours of use Cree bulbs. The last 5 years of LEDs (feit, Cree, GE) haven't failed yet.
- spdustin 7y agoThe Cree LED bulbs I had years ago had a major buzzing problem. Do you feel like that's still an issue?
- snapetom 7y agoNo, I've never had a problem with that, either with older or more recent ones.