On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:46:09 -0800, William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Andy Cuffe" wrote in message
...

I have some blue Philips LED christmas lights I was using as a
night light. After they were on 24/7 for a year, a number of LEDs
had failed short-circuit, and the rest were 50-75% dimmer than
new. I was very disappointed -- ordinary light bulbs last longer than
that! They were either using cheap LEDs, or overdriving them (or
both). Looking directly into the dim LEDs I could see large dark
areas on the dice.

Don't do that! You'll put your eye out!

Maybe _that_ explains the "large dark areas ...."