dennis@home wrote in
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On 05/08/2015 14:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Doesn't surprise me, though. My limited experience of mains LEDs say
they don't have a good life.


Maybe your dark is thicker than the normal so they can't suck in as
much?


This is why lights run on AC. If they were on DC and you fitted the lamp
with the polarity reversed they would make the room very dark.