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> Good LED bulbs are now common and cheap I take exception to this. Bad LED bulbs are common and cheap. Your average $5 bulb from the big box has about 3 commo

> Good LED bulbs are now common and cheap I take exception to this. Bad LED bulbs are common and cheap. Your average $5 bulb from the big box has about 3 common failure modes, all of which are exacerbated by heat. I haven't been able to buy a decent LED bulb at any brick and mortar retailer in years. Meanwhile my 20 year old sylvania LED bulbs which are basically giant heatsinks all still work great. Now you know why nobody makes those anymore.

TeMPOraL 6y ago
Yup. LED bulbs were good until the market competition caught up. Now they're mostly shit. At this point, I shop for LEDs at IKEA. Tad more expensive, but they don't break after couple of months because someone soldered them on their knee in the middle of a Shenzhen marketplace (been there, seen that), making them overheat and eventually pop something off the circuit board. And then I know people who got so pissed at LED bulbs they switched back to incandescent. Because turns out that the ban on incandescent bulbs in my country worked for about a year or two, before the stores got flooded with boxes of these, each with a label telling you it's not suitable for use at home, but only in storage buildings, etc. Which got the sellers off the hook, and also got the manufacturers off the hook for quality issues. My mother had a brief moment of weakness, but after two of these "legal" incandescents literally exploded over our heads, shattered glass flying everywhere, I convinced her to go back to buying LEDs.
martyvis 6y ago
Are you sure you bought those LED bulbs in 2000? Philips submission for the LED replacement 60W bulb was only in 2009
weaksauce 6y ago
I don't know maybe I got lucky but i bought the store brand walmart leds and have used them for a long time without replacing them. the light quality is nice and it was extremely cheap... on the order of the incandescents that they replaced. I want to say it was around 5 or 10 bucks for a 4 pack
zokula 6y ago
LED bulbs were not around 20 years ago bub.

TeMPOraL 6y ago

Yup. LED bulbs were good until the market competition caught up. Now they're mostly shit. At this point, I shop for LEDs at IKEA. Tad more expensive, but they don't break after couple of months because someone soldered them on their knee in the middle of a Shenzhen marketplace (been there, seen that), making them overheat and eventually pop something off the circuit board. And then I know people who got so pissed at LED bulbs they switched back to incandescent. Because turns out that the ban on incandescent bulbs in my country worked for about a year or two, before the stores got flooded with boxes of these, each with a label telling you it's not suitable for use at home, but only in storage buildings, etc. Which got the sellers off the hook, and also got the manufacturers off the hook for quality issues. My mother had a brief moment of weakness, but after two of these "legal" incandescents literally exploded over our heads, shattered glass flying everywhere, I convinced her to go back to buying LEDs.

martyvis 6y ago

Are you sure you bought those LED bulbs in 2000? Philips submission for the LED replacement 60W bulb was only in 2009

weaksauce 6y ago

I don't know maybe I got lucky but i bought the store brand walmart leds and have used them for a long time without replacing them. the light quality is nice and it was extremely cheap... on the order of the incandescents that they replaced. I want to say it was around 5 or 10 bucks for a 4 pack

zokula 6y ago

LED bulbs were not around 20 years ago bub.