You must use some cheap LED bulbs. I've been using LED bulbs in my house for about 10 years now and I've only had one fail and it was replaced under warranty.
Actually, I've had two fail, but the second one was a DIY assembly of a ring of LEDs and a separate driver that I used to replace a circular CFL in a ceiling fan. Since I'd put it together myself in the first place, it was pretty simple to replace the driver when it failed after 6-7 years. My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key April 2, 2021 10:49 AM, "Robert Bruninga via EV" <[email protected]> wrote: > The resistor is far more reliable than the modern DC switching electronics > th ey put in consumer bulbs. > My LED bulbs throughout the house fail about one evey month or so (ouit of > 50 and not a single one has been due to the LED, but due to the voltage > regulating electronics. > > A series resistor is MUCH more reliable > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 1:08 PM Jim Walls via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/02/2021 09:57, Lee Hart via EV wrote: >> For fun, I just measured the current of my trailer's LED lights. At >> 12vdc: >> >> brake lights: 100ma each (has 8 LEDs in each one) >> tail lights: 80ma each (has 12 LEDs in each one) >> side marker lights: 30ma each (has 4 LEDs in each one) >> >> So they apparently put 4 LEDs in a series string, with a dropping >> resistor or circuit to take up the rest. >> >> Lee >> >> Yep, for 12 volt DC systems, either three or four LEDs in series is >> pretty normal. Those numbers make far more sense than the original post >> in this sub-thread that said 30mA for turn and brakes. >> >> -- >> 73 >> ------------------------------------- >> Jim Walls - K6CCC >> [email protected] >> Ofc: 818-548-4804 >> http://members.dslextreme.com/users/k6ccc >> AMSAT Member 32537 - WSWSS Member 395 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Address messages to [email protected] >> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive >> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210402/f6a3713c/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
