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> Spending 60 dollars on a bulb that may or may not last 2 years. The only way I have ever lost bulbs is when I forget to remove them when changing apartments.
by tacticalturtle 2y ago
> Spending 60 dollars on a bulb that may or may not last 2 years.
The only way I have ever lost bulbs is when I forget to remove them when changing apartments.
Modern bulbs from reputable manufacturers easily last a decade of normal usage at this point
- alias_neo 2y agoTo play devil's advocate (because I'm very much in agreement with you), I've found that Hue bulbs I've bought in the latter half-decade have lasted less time than the ones I bought a decade ago. The original metal and glass ones are still going strong at nearing 10 years old, but some of my newer ones made from plastic and plastic since Siginify started cheaping out the build quality have been failing. Out of somewhere in the region of 60-70 Hue bulbs, mostly Colour + White Ambience, a mix of Edison, Screw and GU10, I've now had 3 of the new cheap/light/plastic ones fail, and zero of the older metal/glass ones, though I've shattered the glass on 3 of the glass ones being careless when moving.
- echoangle 2y agoHow do they fail? Is the physical case breaking or do they just not turn on anymore due to electronics failures?
- alias_neo 2y agoTwo failed the same way, one E27 and one GU10; they light the wrong colour and have lost most of their brightness, now about 20% or less of their original brightness, really noticeable when they're grouped with another bulb which should be the same colour and brightness, the third just stopped lighting up entirely, even though it does still register on the Zigbee network.