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> I've never seen more than 15000 hours from an LED bulb at best. With the LED bulbs at our home (many of which have failed!), the problem is always the invert
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
> I've never seen more than 15000 hours from an LED bulb at best.
With the LED bulbs at our home (many of which have failed!), the problem is always the inverter. They just start flickering wildly and inconsistently one day, which is never pleasant, and they need to be replaced. It's frustrating because when the LEDs have stable power, they can produce just as much brightness as before, but their integrated power-conversion circuitry sucks in reliability.
- dwighttk 4y agoI wonder if it’d be worth it to centralize the inverter…
- wankle 4y agogjsman-1000's point and yours make sense and somewhere on the page it was suggested to start running DC power just for LED lighting in homes. Until then, our new plan is to use LED light strips and stop buying LED bulbs. The idea is that the strips have an external power supply so I'm hoping the LED's will have the lifetime they deserve.
- Xeoncross 4y agoThis is where the idea meets the real world implementation. Yes, LED's can last longer, but the additional electrics used to convert from house-hold AC power can't.