Finally changed one of my LED light bulbs
They weren't playing with that 9 year expected ife span.
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Still have a couple of old fluorescent energy saving bulbs, one of which is in its mid to late-20s.
LED efficiency over florescent pays back in just a few years depending on the lamp (and your electricity costs, etc....).
Plus they can do much warmer light. Free yourself from the tyranny of ice cold florescent lights and join the modern era. And use the extra $2-10/yr to buy yourself an ice cream cone. You deserve it.
(Reminder that florescent bulbs typically contain mercury and should be recycled by an ewaste professional)
Thanks, Dad!
No, really, the warning's important: SOMEONE is gonna still huck it under the sink and poison people.
Also, with LEDs, I like the dimming and colour temp. My office, for instance, starts scaling back the blue light around sunset, and it almost matches my monitors. I don't dig on the funky colours, but the white temp is so great.
Just a hunch but I am guessing you are referring to the first wave of good quality LED bulbs that hit the market. Those did last a long time and didn't flicker like the new stuff that has been pushed out more recently. In my experience, even the better quality brands like GE are now enshittified so they fail sooner and I almost miss incandescents in spite of their higher power draw.
The last few packs of new bulbs that I have purchased to replace malfunctioning LED bulbs (less than 5 years old) start to flicker almost immediately. In contrast, the stuff I installed in my last house ran problem free for many years without any issues. Perhaps I am just unlucky.
Yeah, and their fucking price points...
Their model was literally, "Well it lasts five times as long, so we'll charge five times as much!". Completely ignoring the fact that they didn't cost that much more to make.
The life span is pretty consistent with electronic only lighting too. The previous owner installed the same tracklight looking fixture in the kitchen x2, and in the living room.
The one kitchen died (probably 10 years old+). And its a proprietary driver size/shape and Voltage output, that nobody carries anywhere, not even Aliexpress.
About a month later the next kitchen fixture died, and a month after that the living room one died.
If you feel like you're not getting the full, expected lifespan of an LED bulb, or if you simply want to extend its life, you might want to check out helpful videos on YT. The point there is to alter the casing so that the bulb's heat dissipates much more effectively, prolonging its life.
There are other videos in which you can even repair your bulb if it's simply a case of one of the several LED emitters failing. Like old-school christmas lights, a single bulb going out in the series brings the whole thing down. A little solder, or even just pencil graphite(!) can be used to repair the thing IIRC.