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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by b5 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:56AM (#16528271)
That's been my experience of LED bulbs -- either they die quick or last years. I bought a dozen of really cheap Chinese ones about 2011 or so. More than half died within 6 months, another crop in under a year, and I've got two of them that are still running fine 7 years later. They run probably 12 or 15 hours a day every day of the year.
Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by hazeii on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:03AM (#16528883)
Have you compared the brightness against a new LED of the same model? My experience with many higher-power (60-100w equiv.) bulbs is that they are quite a lot dimmer after a year or two of heavy use.