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		joelfried on June 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amount of work that once bought an hour of light n... I was all set to read and see whether they took LED manufacturers at their word for how long their bulbs lasted, and it turned out the article's source is nearly 30 years old. Can we update the flair to say 1994, given that the embedded numbers date from that year? Regurgitating the data in 2017 doesn't make the information actually from 2017.

seventytwo on June 7, 2023 [–]

And for LED lights, it’s almost always the ballast circuitry that fails, not the actual LEDs.

LED lighting lifetime needs to be measured as an assembly, not just the LED component.

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