There's something off about LED bulbs

Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by jsheard on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:23AM (#35373136)

More recently Philips has started selling the Dubai-style bulbs worldwide, branded as the "Ultra Efficient" range. They're expensive though, as you'd expect.

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Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by swimfar on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:04PM (#35374882)

Are you sure those are the same bulbs? The ultra efficient versions sold on Amazon have reviews going back to 2017. Supposedly the Dubai-style bulbs were only available in Dubai even a few years ago.

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Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by jsheard on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:43PM (#35375522)

The Ultra Efficient series only just launched in November: https://www.signify.com/en-gb/our-company/news/press-release...

There must be some kind of listing error on Amazon, maybe an old listing being repurposed without clearing the old reviews.

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Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by userbinator on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:09PM (#35376806)

I believe BigClive did a video on those, and while they did indeed use more LEDs for improved efficiency, they also had a more complex and thus failure-prone driver than the original Dubai ones.

In other words, more efficient, but not longer lifespan.

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