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There are plenty of cheap LED lamps with inadequate cooling or other bad components, which will become defective after a relatively short time. I have switched
by adrian_b 1y ago
There are plenty of cheap LED lamps with inadequate cooling or other bad components, which will become defective after a relatively short time.
I have switched all the lighting in 2 apartments to LED lamps, more than 10 years ago, and no lamp has gone defective until now.
However, they were Philips lamps and not one of their cheapest models, but some model with 1521 lumen @ 13 W and 4000 K color temperature, i.e. slightly more luminous than the classic 100 W incandescent lamps and with almost white light, only very slightly yellowish, very unlike the yellow lamps with a color temperature under 3000 K, and also very unlike the cheap bluish lamps with a 6500 K color temperature.
My LED lamps are screwed in traditional incandescent lamp fixtures, which hang from the ceiling, but unlike some bad lamp fixtures, mine have below them a diffusive screen, to avoid direct light, but they are completely open above, so they do not impede cooling.
- debian3 1y agoPhilips are great. I installed the Phillips hue in 2013, they are still going strong. I replaced one out of the 40 or so over the years. It didn’t burn out, it was turning back on by itself…
- kuon 1y agoI am buying philips now when I have to replace them, so far, only 1 philips led died. So they are much more durable, but still not living to the promise of "change once and it will last forever". I also suspect that many LEDs are designed for 220V, but here in switzerland it is 240V norm and in the middle of the day my power meter reads around 245V (I suspect it is because there is a lot of solar panels on the roofs around me), so it is not a negligible voltage difference if the electronic is not designed for it.