My first LED light bulb has failed!

[Workingman]

It was bought in about November 2015 when the rumour was that incandescent bulbs were being phased out. I was buying fireworks at the time and noticed them as I passed a display unit designed to kick start their sale.

It has been on / off for something like 3,400 days at roughly six hours per day meaning that it has lasted about 21,000 hours. That's not bad given they were new to market. More modern ones are said to last up to 36,000 hours according to the claim on the replacement.

A few quid well spent... and a big saving on electricity thrown in.

[Suff]

In the last 4 years I've had about 6 fail. Certainly I buy more powerful bulbs and 4000k rather and 2600k (yellow light), but the stuff they sell in France doesn't appear to be so good.

Mind you they sell sockets marked with Red, Green, Blue for LIve, Earth, Neutral. Who remembers why you shouldn't do that???

[TheOstrich]

Do you mean the ones that are like spotlights, three to a chandelier (which are a pig to get in or out of the sockets) or the coil-type ones which in the beginning were given away free by the electric companies?

If the latter, I've had numerous failures over the years, some after very few hours' use .....

[cruiser2]

Have replaced all my bulbs with LED last year. This included the flourescent light inthe kitchen. Got an electrician to do that one as iot meant
wiringin the new fitting up a ladder. Have still got six fittings in the extension to change. Will need new fittings as they will have to be fire rated
to be fitted in the space above the ceiling.
Not had any go yet.

[Kaz]

Bargain

[Workingman]

Ossie, they are just like the old light bulbs with a white collar about 1/3 of the way down - a direct replacement. Those spotlight types are usually halogen and the coils are like mini fluorescent bulbs.



That's a screw type, the ones I have are bayonet fittings

[Suff]

One of these. Image from France...



I buy 15w mainly apart from bedroom lights. Some 12w.

Cruiser, most of my neon tubes were replaced with these, no new fittings.

They come with replacement starters which seem to just do passthrough power. Take the old tube out and starter then put in the new tube and "starter".

[saundra]

Loath these led light
Neither use or. Ornament
Government treats us like a nanny state

[meriad]

Nothing nanny state Saundra, they just are a lot more energy efficient so it makes total sense These days LED bulbs come in all sorts of brightness levels and can be dimmed just like the old incandescent bulbs - you may need to change a dimmer switch as the voltage will be different, but once that's done there's not much difference.

We as humans are destroying this planet and we all need to do our bit for future generations, if we can reduce our energy consumptions all sorts of emissions are reduced - and the LED bulbs last so much longer so less bits ending up in the bin / landfill


Frank, that's a fab achievement

[Suff]

Ah but I love LED lights. However you DO have to look at the packet. They come in different lighting values rated in K which is Kelvin and what they call the "temperature" of the light. The lower the K value the more yellow the light (useeless), the higher the value the closer to daylight.

See the pic below.



So you can see that a 2700k LED bulb is virtually usesless for anything other than mood lighting or watching the TV. I use mostly 4k in the house and 6k in the workshop/garage. What is most annoying is that some bulb manufacturers are making it very hard to understand which bulb you are buying.

In rough terms, 3000 and under is candlelight, or what they call warm white. 4000 is neurtal white and 5700 and up is daylight or what they call cool white.

A lot more choice with LED. A lot more opportunity to get a bulb you don't want.