I don’t ashtray my lights, too hard on them. From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: LED Lifespan
My new building id's 100% led. Abbott a year and half no burn out yet. We have about 12 off the 2 bulb 4 foot type that ashtray on dusk to dawn. Really lights the whole area up On Sat, May 27, 2017, 12:27 PM George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: We bought a bunch of 4' LED tubes for our office. They were like $8-9 each. I don't remember the brand or where we bought them. Built-in transformer, so you just bypass or cut out the ballast and wire them all 120VAC at one end. 50 or 60, I forget. About 15 are wired to a breaker that we flip on if we're on generator. The rest have been used daily for well over a year with no failures. On 5/27/2017 10:02 AM, Nate Burke wrote: > Hmm, I have confirmed over 50% failures on my HomeDepot Cree Bulbs, I > bought 6 and have replaced 3 so far. > > On 5/27/2017 9:57 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: >> I have converted everything to LED from Home Depot. Zero failures. >> -----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke Sent: Saturday, May 27, >> 2017 8:53 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] OT: LED Lifespan >> I've converted some things to A type LED Bulbs at my house, mainly >> for the reduced heat output, but I'm not seeing anywhere near the >> lifespan advertised. I would say ~50% failure rate within 2 years. >> I'm betting the actual LED's are fine, but the driver burns out. Is >> this common with LED's or am I just really unlucky? We installed a >> bunch of 4' LED Shop lights, granted they were all the same >> manufacturer, but we have about 75% failed within 8 months. >
