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6 months ago, I replaced most lights with LED bulbs, 100 watt equivalents. Now, my lamps are all 15-20 years old. Could it be that they're not right for the LED's? The only ones that are doing fine are the ones being used in new recessed light cans, at least, so far. Thanks.
I've had this issue with LED and CFL, new lamps, old lamps, can lights.. doesn't matter. Heck, I've been through this in 4 different houses in 3 states... fully HALF of the CFL and LED lights fail in the first 6 months. They're always under warranty, but it's a headache to deal with that. Doesn't matter if I spend a bunch of money on name brand or buy store brand/generic.
There's a CREE LED can light sitting on my counter at this very moment that's 4 months old and dead. I understand that lightbulbs were the first item with planned obsolescence, but when I'm replacing every light in the house at least once a year and half of them twice a year it just gets ridiculous. The promise of "energy savings" is right out the window with all the new waste, transportation costs for returns (both mine and the company) landfill/recycling waste, etc...
So I doubt it's you, your lamps or anything You are doing, much less Can do.
I've had this issue with LED and CFL, new lamps, old lamps, can lights.. doesn't matter. Heck, I've been through this in 4 different houses in 3 states... fully HALF of the CFL and LED lights fail in the first 6 months. They're always under warranty, but it's a headache to deal with that. Doesn't matter if I spend a bunch of money on name brand or buy store brand/generic.
There's a CREE LED can light sitting on my counter at this very moment that's 4 months old and dead. I understand that lightbulbs were the first item with planned obsolescence, but when I'm replacing every light in the house at least once a year and half of them twice a year it just gets ridiculous. The promise of "energy savings" is right out the window with all the new waste, transportation costs for returns (both mine and the company) landfill/recycling waste, etc...
So I doubt it's you, your lamps or anything You are doing, much less Can do.
All my LED'S are Cree...hmmm....
At $20 a bulb, I'm HUGELY disappointed, p/o'd even. Aren't these bulbs supposed to last for years???
I have one unit the bulb type is supposed to last 10,000 hours it says. I'm lucky to get a 100 hours before replacement. They are not all what they are cracked up to be. They're probably made overseas in non quality control factories.
Reading posts like this definitely convinces me to delay changing out my "outdated" and energy inefficient incandescent bulbs (cans) for more efficient (and expensive!) LEDs that last 6 months- that doesn't sound very efficient to me.
So far that has been easy with most of those inefficient bulbs being 14 years old and still going strong- I think I've had to replace 2 out of 14 in those years.
So, I'm wondering...with all the research I did on LED bulbs... why didn't this problem ever come to light (forgive the uninteded pun)?
I definitely don't want to go back to incandescent...I feel the heat from those bulbs, and I see the difference in my electric bill.
It could be that you got a bad batch. I decided to update about 75% of my lights with Cree LED bulbs purchased from Home Depot about a year ago. I saved my receipts and the package material so I had the warranty policy handy. One bulb burned out within 10 days. Took it back to Home Depot and got a refund. I have had no issue with any of the other bulbs to date.
6 months ago, I replaced most lights with LED bulbs, 100 watt equivalents. Now, my lamps are all 15-20 years old. Could it be that they're not right for the LED's? The only ones that are doing fine are the ones being used in new recessed light cans, at least, so far. Thanks.
Have you had any electrical problems in your home? There could be something in the works that's making your bulbs frizz out quicker than expected.
If you look around now, it's gotten pretty difficult to find 75w and above equivalencies. Most stop at 60w. A flaw has been found that the bulbs have a heat dissipation problem and thus now are coming with warnings to not put them in a sealed lamp or a lamp where the heat can't flow away. The ones used for the US market were designed to look like other bulbs used compared to the European high intensity version which does not. Europe stayed with CFLs for lamps and the high intensity ones that have their own fixture.
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