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Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about
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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