On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:06:15 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

I understand your skepticism as a general consumer, but I've been
experiencing the products first hand.

This is good to know because the whole point of this thread is to nail down
the actual life of the lamps.

Which is impossible to do based on unreliable anecdotal evidence in
an usenet newsgroup read by perhaps a hundred people.

Fair enough point.