“So far, it’s working great. I’m not expecting to need to replace it ever again.”
Don’t be too sure. Two years ago I bought a 5 watt LED spotlight at Walmart for my front porch. It had a large cluster of LED’s. Since LED’s are are low voltage, the light also contained electronic circuitry to to step down the power from 110 volts AC to to low voltage DC. The circuitry gradually failed within months, one LED segment at a time. So, even though the LED’s may be touted to last a long time, the power supply may not. Great Chinese product, huh?
The LED I bought was a GE, I think. No idea where it was made. I bought it online (at the time, they weren't readily available via retail) and it cost me about 30-40 bucks.
It's been a couple of years, no problems yet. the light is in a place that's really inaccessible, but is one that stays on for long periods of time - it's not like a bathroom where it will be turned on and off 30 times a day. I'm calling it a victory, so far. Anything to keep Dad off the #$%#$ ladder.
I'll give them plenty of time to work the kinks out before I invest $100's in LEDs. The 8-packs of incandescents that I picked up for $2.44 a pop will work just fine for now. :-)
I design circuitry for a living. Trust me, there is only one power supply in the light bulb. If it failed all of the segments would go out. What you are seeing is individual segments failing and that is interesting information.
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