On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:14:43 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
Believe it or not, the tests are designed to reflect real world usage.
Real world seems to *always* be less than advertised lifetime.
At least for me they seem to be.
I'd be pleasantly surprised if LED bulbs last 5 years.
What fails?
a. The electronics!
b. The bulbs.
You keep implying that there is something wrong with all advertised
LED bulb lifetimes. Then you tell us you need to Google search to
find out if that's true.
We know the manufacturers lie, or, more accurately, the MARKETING people,
who make the labels, say only what they want you to think.
For example, they'll tell you an LED itself lasts 50,000 hours, but they
won't tell you the "driver" lasts anywhere from zero to a couple of years.
You could have left the word "inflated" out of that sentence.
It's an insult to the rather clever testing that you described.
The one thing about Jeff is that he's shown himself over the past decade to
be a well-balanced person who is not swayed, like most people are, by
exaggerated claims, whether they be any claim by Apple for their WiFi
reception, or a bogus claim by LED manufacturers (such as the ones I
received on the phone yesterday) as to lifetime.
He'll deny this though, as he doesn't like accolades, but he is always on
the money, and, he almost always provides *proof*, something which you need
to provide also in order for us to believe your claims (I'm not saying you
didn't or don't provide proof - I'm just saying that Jeff almost always does
- so what he says carries weight).
Also, Jeff runs his own *tests* of tons of things, which are tests that most
of us have never run, they're that detailed (ask him about router claims
versus the real world some day!).
Jeff is like I am. We prove what we say, and we provide references, and
photos and other reliable statistics. You'd need to do the same to hold
water with us.
Anyway, fact is, I have a bulb, in my very hand, incandescent, that failed
in two days.
https://s15.postimg.org/92aoq3xej/bu...n_two_days.jpg
Notice the package says "1.4 year life".
https://s18.postimg.org/602tefda1/ge...burned_out.jpg