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Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? by phasetransition on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:36PM (#19098927)
All bulbs produce heat, both from the LEDs and the electronics. Incandescent bulbs were blazing hot, too, and they radiated IR on top everything else.

A high efficiency LED assembly is still producing on the order of 50% light and 50% heat.

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Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? by jandrese on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:13PM (#19101640)
High efficiency is only 50%? Isn't that terrible? Are LEDs really that bad?
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Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? by snaily on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:37PM (#19102140)
Incandescents used to be 5% visible light at best, with 95% of energy turned into non-visible radiation.
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Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? by xxs on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:47PM (#19100925)
blazing is undertaking, the filament is over 2500K
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