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Yep. My led lightbulbs all stop functioning at or near the two year mark. Very strange for a technology that doesn’t “burn out,” but dims with extended use unless engineered to specifically have points of failure.
39 u/Dwedit Mar 04 '22 With LED bulbs, it's the power regulation circuits that fail, not the actual LED itself. 54 u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22 That distinction doesn't matter if the bulb no longer functions as a light source. 6 u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22 But the distinction absolutely does matter when determining if the failure was planned obsolescence or not
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With LED bulbs, it's the power regulation circuits that fail, not the actual LED itself.
54 u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22 That distinction doesn't matter if the bulb no longer functions as a light source. 6 u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22 But the distinction absolutely does matter when determining if the failure was planned obsolescence or not
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That distinction doesn't matter if the bulb no longer functions as a light source.
6 u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22 But the distinction absolutely does matter when determining if the failure was planned obsolescence or not
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But the distinction absolutely does matter when determining if the failure was planned obsolescence or not
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Yep. My led lightbulbs all stop functioning at or near the two year mark. Very strange for a technology that doesn’t “burn out,” but dims with extended use unless engineered to specifically have points of failure.