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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014) by brewdad on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:34PM (#40947643)
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.

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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014) by rootusrootus on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:07PM (#40947951)
> 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.

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