The leds might look the same, have same markings and be sold with same data points, but they most certainly are not :) Cheap Chinese flashlight LEDs use throwaw

The leds might look the same, have same markings and be sold with same data points, but they most certainly are not :) Cheap Chinese flashlight LEDs use throwaway wafer offcuts encapsulated by fly by night operations/off the clock in real factories or rebranded third parties (fakes). Its the same deal as cheap SD cards using third grade defective NAND Flash with controllers taking care to bypass bad regions. They are good enough, but not nearly as good as the first grade stuff sold at a premium.