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Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by zajio1am on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:56PM (#35375728)
> The big problem for me is, as a consumer, how do I know that brand X is producing quality bulbs that'll last a long time? I'm very happy to pay more for that. How does one sift through marketing to get to actual quality?

There is simple heuristic - all LED bulbs are bad. They generally have insufficient heatsink and unreplaceable PSU immediately next to LEDs.

Better are LED tubes (with T12 interface, as a replacement for fluorescent tubes), they have much more area for cooling and for PSU, and sometimes have replaceable PSU. Similarly lighting units with integrated LEDs.

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Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by gcr on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:54PM (#35377340)
Technology Connections has a great video about exactly this! https://youtu.be/fsIFxyOLJXM?t=843

At the end of the day, the author recommends giving filament-style LED bulbs a try, where the emitter is built onto a thin filament away from the circuit housing so it's far away from the heat.

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