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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about
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In article <v51a7s$2j8l5$1@dont-email.me>, BillGill  <billnews2@cox.net> wrote:
>On 6/19/2024 1:22 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been replacing LED bulbs at a much higher rate than that for one
>>> particular fixture. They aren't lasting even 10 thousand hours (why that
>>> is happening, I have no idea - if the fixture was wired up wrong, the
>>> incandescent bulbs I had been using wouldn't had lasted as long as they
>>> did).
>> 
>> They aren't designed to last very long, that's the problem.  The typical
>> cheap American ones fail more frequently than long-life incandescents.
>> 
>> But there's no reason you can't make more expensive ones with much longer
>> life, like the ones required for use in Dubai.  The problem is that people
>> don't want to pay more money for a better product unless they are forced to
>> do so.
>> --scott
>
>I found out that a lot of the lower priced store brands don't
>last as long as they should.  I have given up buying them,
>and buying name brands instead.  For example I don't buy LED
>bulbs at Walmart.  I go to someplace that offers a choice.
>
>Bill

Incandescants have definitely gotten worse once you can only buy the
off brands.  I see a lot of base/neck separation now, and I never saw
that before.
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