09-07-2014, 02:11 PM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
I agree, if my 10,000 hour CFLs are lasting 2500, who is getting the CFLs that last 40,000?
Not 40,000 but after I had 4 out of 12 die quickly, the rest of my CFLs have lasted about 15,000. One of my three LEDs died about 6,000, the other two are still going.
I had one of my first 5 LEDs die within the first 2 years, well below 6000 hours.
I think the issue is the electronics. AC to DC converter plus capacitors. Just like we see with lower quality CFLs, I suspect we are going to see some LEDs where the base fails well before it should.
I also wonder whether 'dirty power' would be worse on some of these power converters than others.