Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)
by rootusrootus on Thursday July 11, 2024 @07:05PM
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Early ones for sure, but I've noticed steady improvements. And I've only ever had problems with fairly inexpensive bulbs. I have a house full of Cree retrofit cans which have been 100% reliable for years now. My guess is that is partly because Cree is higher quality, and partly because they are not bulbs, and so the heat management is way better.
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Some of the early ones were great too. I have a bunch of L Prize bulbs [1], some of which have been on for significant duty cycles since their production in 2011, and have had zero failures.
Is Cree considered higher quality? I had one of their CFLs try to burn my house down about 10 years ago. I smelled burning plastic from the adjacent room and found a bulb in an open fixture with a completely blackened base.
I haven't bought a Cree product since then no matter how cheap Costco marks them.
Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)
by rootusrootus on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:07PM
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> Is Cree considered higher quality?
They were, for sure. However, in 2019 they were sold to another company and I do not know what may have changed since. All of my Cree lights pre-date that.
> I had one of their CFLs
Cree was founded entirely on the premise of creating LED lighting, I am pretty sure they have never done CFLs.