We've had at least 15 power outages this year alone. Several brownouts
as well as surges too. We have yet to see one LED light fail.
Remind me to not buy them from where ever you are buying them.
bp
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On 6/5/2017 7:37 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
It seems clean, Late 80's subdivision in major metro, Underground
utilities, APC ups's never complain. 3 power outages in 15 years.
On 6/5/2017 9:09 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
Sounds like the driver.
How ... Clean is your power there?
- Josh
On Jun 5, 2017 9:01 AM, "Nate Burke" <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
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