Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
by phasetransition on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:16PM
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For LEDs, LM-80 data is used to extrapolate lifetime data via the TM-21-11 methodology. Its not great, but it is what we have. If you read the standard, it has pretty good summary of the drawbacks of the current approach to lifetime extrapolation:
https://www.ies.org/product/projecting-long-term-lumen-maint...
But, in practice, other components generally fail before the LEDs have a (binary) failure.