Sounds like the driver. How ... Clean is your power there?
- Josh On Jun 5, 2017 9:01 AM, "Nate Burke" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just lost another 'A' type LED bulb. GE Branded. Very light usage. I > think it is less than a year old. Started flickering before going out > completely. > > On 5/28/2017 9:25 AM, David Milholen wrote: > > +1 Ours have been working for 2yrs or more. > > On 5/27/2017 12:27 PM, George Skorup 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. > > > > > -- > > >
