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If the past few years I have gone through two sets of expensive LED flat panel sets with integrated fixtures on my garage. In both cases, they lasted just over a year and the electronics failed. I have now gone back to simple incandescent bulb mounts on a timer that are working much better.


18 posted on 09/05/2019 3:22:29 PM PDT by Truth29
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We got the screw in out door fixture but are using weather sealed screw in LED’s.(very bright clean light) If worse comes to worse, we can still use screw in incandescent bulbs. My wife was wary of the flat panels for out door use and didn’t like the 5 year warranties or the fact you have to replace the whole unit. I don’t like that the sensor might go bad but it is a plug in type onto the fixture so it is easier to replace.


37 posted on 09/05/2019 4:12:08 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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If the past few years I have gone through two sets of expensive LED flat panel sets with integrated fixtures on my garage.

Same here. About 10 percent of our LED lights fail. Sales pitches of them working for a hundred years aren't working out. The diodes may last long but the electronics behind them fail. I replaced some incandescent squares in our kitchen with LED flat panels, where I changed the sheetrock and junction boxes just for the LED flat panels. Failed within a month. At over $100 a pop, got an exchange. Two months later, another failed. Got an exchange, again. If it fails again I'll rip them out and try something else.

LED lights do fail, and when they do in an integrated fixture, the entire fixture is worthless.

69 posted on 09/05/2019 6:10:23 PM PDT by roadcat
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