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Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? by sleavey on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:38PM (#19098942)
I think they might have began quoting the LED lifetime on boxes, which is still true, but in reality something else in the bulb usually breaks before the LEDs themselves. I guess manufacturers have either taken it upon themselves or have been forced to reduce the quoted lifetime since the famous 100,000 hours marketing.
Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? by jandrese on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:40AM (#19105442)
Or they quote the lifetime figure for a single LED, but then wire up a dozen or more in series to make the light. Any one of them fails and the whole assembly goes dark.