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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I'm surprised by all these posts.

LED bulbs have been a huge upgrade for me. Once they got the temperature and the dimming sorted out, they've just been awesome. I can't tell any visual difference from incandescents and they have all lasted 5+ years for us.

My five year old doesn't even know light bulbs can require changing. Someone told her a joke about changing a lightbulb and she was clueless.

That's funny. Yet another expression or idea that's lost meaning because of technological progress.

I'm also surprised by all these posts. Hard to believe that all the people whose incandescent bulbs lasted forever and whose LED bulbs burn out early, found their way to this thread.

Mhmm.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know what the answer is. We have a candelabra fixture with incandescent lights, we dim it and don't use it often. Well, one burned out last year and we put in a LED and now it's burned out while the incandescent are still fine.

Many non-China made incandescents will last decades. Even the modern ones made in China will last a couple years with normal use.

My GE incandescents regularly burned out.

LEDs are a pain. The switch control has to be LED compatible, or the other bulbs on the circuits have to be too - no mixing and matching. Too much voltage flux. Never had a problem with incandescents but LEDS have been very troublesome.

It's been 20-30 years since GE made bulbs in the states. Have some older GE and Sylvanias that are still going from decades ago. Overseas ones got cheaper in quality, no lead in the solder, cheaper metal bases, cheaper filament quality.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why Trump brought back plastic straws but can't bring back incandescent light bulbs.

He probably will. LED's are an abomination, especially on taillights/headlights as they cause tracing and even epileptic fits.

They can cause cataracts too.

Really? Ugh! TV's, phones, and computer screens are mostly those LED bulbs now aren't they? Off to research.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know what the answer is. We have a candelabra fixture with incandescent lights, we dim it and don't use it often. Well, one burned out last year and we put in a LED and now it's burned out while the incandescent are still fine.

Many non-China made incandescents will last decades. Even the modern ones made in China will last a couple years with normal use.

My GE incandescents regularly burned out.

LEDs are a pain. The switch control has to be LED compatible, or the other bulbs on the circuits have to be too - no mixing and matching. Too much voltage flux. Never had a problem with incandescents but LEDS have been very troublesome.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I'm surprised by all these posts.

LED bulbs have been a huge upgrade for me. Once they got the temperature and the dimming sorted out, they've just been awesome. I can't tell any visual difference from incandescents and they have all lasted 5+ years for us.

My five year old doesn't even know light bulbs can require changing. Someone told her a joke about changing a lightbulb and she was clueless.

That's funny. Yet another expression or idea that's lost meaning because of technological progress.

I'm also surprised by all these posts. Hard to believe that all the people whose incandescent bulbs lasted forever and whose LED bulbs burn out early, found their way to this thread.

Wow, I'm surprised by all these posts.

LED bulbs have been a huge upgrade for me. Once they got the temperature and the dimming sorted out, they've just been awesome. I can't tell any visual difference from incandescents and they have all lasted 5+ years for us.

My five year old doesn't even know light bulbs can require changing. Someone told her a joke about changing a lightbulb and she was clueless.

I think this is probably a combination of older wiring and bad bulbs. I do think in this instance, brand names make a difference. We have only bought GE and they've held up for the couple of years we've been in this house so far.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why Trump brought back plastic straws but can't bring back incandescent light bulbs.

He probably will. LED's are an abomination, especially on taillights/headlights as they cause tracing and even epileptic fits.

They can cause cataracts too.

Anonymous wrote:Bad quality control. LEDs are like semiconductors that have intricate manufacturing processes. There is usually a large percent that are defective.

Also, how are you using them? Some LEDs are rated for enclosed fixtures but most are not. If they are in a recessed can or enclosed, while they generate less heat than incandescents, they still have to dissipate that heat or it degrades the LED quickly.

Light bulbs should not be this complicated.

Or expensive.

Or toxic to the environment when you need to dispose of them.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why Trump brought back plastic straws but can't bring back incandescent light bulbs.

Yes!

LED bulbs are a scam.

And terrible for eyes and birds

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Anonymous wrote:An issue in our house too. DH writes the replacement date on the bulb when it goes in.

It’s like 8 months, if that.

We did that, too, because we were going crazy wondering if we were imagining things.

We did it with our incadescents for years after we had an electrical problem this went noticed but was gobbling bulbs, so it became a habit or even a game. The incadescentss last literally years longer than these crappy led things.

I’m shocked by the people willing to install led fixtures with non-replaceable bulbs. It’s all so wasteful.

That was part of the trick. Consumables society = more money exchanging hands and more taxes.

I think if this is happening, there’s some electrical problem.

Maybe start with the switches. I don’t know if the fixtures themselves can be an issue, but I have LEDs in all kinds of old and new lamps with no issues. I remember I moved a bunch of bulbs I’m still using, which means they’re definitely at least 8 years old. But I think all of our wall switches have the LED-compatible dimmers. I changed them all myself when we moved in.

If you’re having a problem, is it happening in lamps plugged in directly? Or just on fixtures with wall switches?

I have had problems with Cree and GE. My preferred brand for LED longegity is Philips.

Anonymous wrote:LEDs last forever. LED control electronics are garbage that overheated and burn out. It's a massive fraud.

Also, since they are computers, not just light bulbs, they are sensitive to your bad electrical wiring in a way that incandescent "dumb bulbs" are not.

Not sold on this explanation. We had our entire house rewired by some of the very best in the business (I’m in the trades), and it didn’t fix the early led deaths.

Anonymous wrote:An issue in our house too. DH writes the replacement date on the bulb when it goes in.

It’s like 8 months, if that.

We did that, too, because we were going crazy wondering if we were imagining things.

We did it with our incadescents for years after we had an electrical problem this went noticed but was gobbling bulbs, so it became a habit or even a game. The incadescentss last literally years longer than these crappy led things.

I’m shocked by the people willing to install led fixtures with non-replaceable bulbs. It’s all so wasteful.