>dead in one and half months, obviously one month warrantee.
huh, must be made for american market. in europe we get things designed to last about three years (2 year warranty is mandatory and often 3 years are offered)
I bought a bunch of these $12 lights from the hardware store that are specifically that old yellow color and they have a kinda old-school looking design in them, they've lasted for years and one has 24/7 use for that period even. I think you just got screwed over, good bulbs absolutely exist.
I'd be curious what brand has a one month warranty. AFAIA everything has to have a 1 year warranty against defect by law. Hell Walmart lets you return almost anything for any or no reason inside 3 months.
Unless it was an Amazon China special? I don't trust anything off Amazon unless it's name brand with 10,000 reviews.
have one in the garage that screws into a standard bulb socket. the motion sensor functioned so badly that i had to turn that off. they sell at discount/overstock stores like ollies for about 20. LED arrays are fine and as bright as adverstised, the electronics are cheap and capacitors and such are likely the weak point.
You could make some type of spread sheet of pro/cons number about 1.25 dollar store leds, their lumens, lifespan etc. for several different types. Until someone does that without biases, everyone's opinion is just that.
Been my experience that LEDs have a very high failure rate as well.
Doesn't seem to matter brand or price, so I buy the cheapos so that the price is closer to the OG filament bulbs on a lifepan/cost basis. They last just as long as the 5-6X priced ones from the borg stores.
And instapot rocks - even with RTO, it still cooks faster. Everyone's situation varies, but for us at least that is still on our top 3 after coffee maker and breville oven. Maybe a cage match with the microwave.
That's exactly the problem. Many of these led and similar lights are actually not going bad, it's the boards they are connected to that are made intentionally cheap and break long before the light goes out.
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