+1
And yes you are correct about driver failure.
My father builds and repairs chicken house lighting controllers capable
of 2 banks of 1500W connections.
Storms keep him real busy in that business and he knows a ton about all
the different LEDs and how they respond
to certain frequencies to achieve the correct color temperatures. Power
surges are the no.1 killer of driver failure.
He also very familiar with the driver system on these high powered
units. Very cool to listen to him explain how
the change in technology allows for so much energy to be distributed
between incandescence lighting to LED lighting.
On 5/27/2017 10:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I wonder about surges and overvoltage excursions on your power.
I have probably purchased 50 or more CREE. My kitchen has 16 floods
in the coffered ceiling.
Most of my bathrooms have 4-12. Zero failures.
-----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 9:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: LED Lifespan
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.
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