Anyone else hate the new light bulbs?

[ultrarunner]

It looks like the sale is over in Vermont (at least in Williston).

Anyone near DC you may want to take advantage of these while they are still on sale. As soon as they come back on sale in Vermont I plan on getting more.
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$12.97 at my Home Depot... tried to order from the DC store and it is in store pickup only to get the $4.97 price...

 

[grsthegreat]

Just an interesting thing i heard this week from an electrician friend. Seems the guy hes worked for has been installing LED street lighting for the Idaho department of transportation for several years. Street lights all over the place.

You know what they say. LED will last 20 years...blah blah blah.

This guy tells me hes spending all his time repairing these same lights. Seems the drivers are failing all over the place.

Nice Chinese made crap. Now im worried about the job i just did on a commercial job. Just installed over $3,000 worth of LED's


Great...just great

 

[Scooby074]

Just an interesting thing i heard this week from an electrician friend. Seems the guy hes worked for has been installing LED street lighting for the Idaho department of transportation for several years. Street lights all over the place.

You know what they say. LED will last 20 years...blah blah blah.

This guy tells me hes spending all his time repairing these same lights. Seems the drivers are failing all over the place.

Nice Chinese made crap. Now im worried about the job i just did on a commercial job. Just installed over $3,000 worth of LED's


Great...just great

Unfortunately "Chinese made Crap" is more the issue as opposed to LEDs.

 

[grsthegreat]

Unfortunately "Chinese made Crap" is more the issue as opposed to LEDs.

ya well, problem is ALL (100%) of LEDS are Chinese made crap. The systems are designed and engineered in USA, and manufactured in China.

Even if the lights are assembled in USA, the leds and drivers are Chinese.

 

[sixdogs]

Something I still don't get is why would I want a "60 watt equivalent" LED or fluorescent when I can barely see with the 100 watt incandescent bulb? Doesn't anyone make a 150 watt equivalent or 200 watt or do I now need multiple fixtures for the right amount of light?

I am not going to squat in the dark if I can come up with a better idea.

 

[SPIKER]

Just an interesting thing i heard this week from an electrician friend. Seems the guy hes worked for has been installing LED street lighting for the Idaho department of transportation for several years. Street lights all over the place.

You know what they say. LED will last 20 years...blah blah blah.

This guy tells me hes spending all his time repairing these same lights. Seems the drivers are failing all over the place.

Nice Chinese made crap. Now im worried about the job i just did on a commercial job. Just installed over $3,000 worth of LED's


Great...just great

I have heard similar from a few places here, the LED Drivers (in summer esp) were failing. The Driver Boards then also had issues when it gets extremely cold the Caps would freeze up and pop...


In both cases is more of engineering or purchasing departments that buy sub standard parts as they save 3 cents per unit... (Been there done that specified some parts that ended up coming from low cost supplier with incorrect specifications that cost some issues.) I managed to catch the problem but machine was built, tested and failed. THEN I looked like the problem, figured it out things changed! I had not signed off on the substituted parts the purchasing department rules were changed.


Mark

 

[California]

I have heard similar from a few places here, the LED Drivers (in summer esp) were failing. The Driver Boards then also had issues when it gets extremely cold the Caps would freeze up and pop...

In both cases is more of engineering or purchasing departments that buy sub standard parts ... I had not signed off on the substituted parts

I heard a similar story from an electronics repair tech - the vanishing kind of specialist who diagnoses and replaces individual IC's instead of boards. Per him: around the time OTA broadcast tv went to digital, a whole lot of analog>digital set top converters were all built and sold in a short time period. All had high failure rates, even the top brands. So did nearly everything else manufactured in that time period, over several months. Turned out there was one huge run of bad counterfeit capacitors that appeared in everything built in that time period. This guy had made his living for a year or two fixing a broad spectrum of 'unfixable' electronics, recognizing and replacing those caps.

 

[sld]

With LED's, the bulbs will last 20-30 years like they claim. The quality, or lack thereof, is in the circuit board that powers them.

 

[Sodo]

With LED's, the bulbs will last 20-30 years like they claim. The quality, or lack thereof, is in the circuit board that powers them.

I'll bet that's the reason it took so long to get them out on the market, they're still working on a reliable failure method.

 

[randy41]

just found some 40 watt incandescents at food lion for 60 cents each pack of four. at lowes they were > $1.50/each.