Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:52AM
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The older Philips LED bulbs were very high quality. Dimmable, no flicker, power factor corrected. Here's a youtube teardown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU Compare the internal circuitry with the youtube video you linked to. Yours were a cheaper design. No wonder the bulbs failed so quickly.
Nowadays Philips seem to be selling both a higher quality and a lower quality bulb in each wattage.
To me the purchase price isn't an issue. I have a few places where I run bulbs 15 or 20 hrs a day. So moving from 60 W to 10 W in those locations made an incredible cost savings. Where I am in the USA, a 1 W load on continuously costs $1/yr. So saving 50 W in a location that's on about 80% of the time saves me $40/yr in electricity. For just one bulb.
Nowadays Philips seem to be selling both a higher quality and a lower quality bulb in each wattage.
To me the purchase price isn't an issue. I have a few places where I run bulbs 15 or 20 hrs a day. So moving from 60 W to 10 W in those locations made an incredible cost savings. Where I am in the USA, a 1 W load on continuously costs $1/yr. So saving 50 W in a location that's on about 80% of the time saves me $40/yr in electricity. For just one bulb.