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On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:24:55 -0400, Hawk wrote:

On 3/22/2020 10:09 AM, Casper wrote:
Anyone try or using these newer garage LEDs?

https://smile.amazon.com/Deformable-...%2C139&sr=8-15

https://smile.amazon.com/Garage-Defo...s%2C139&sr=8-4

I have very limited light in my garage and really need more. I ran
across these new LED screw-in bulbs and was curious if anyone here has
tried or seen them in action. Good light? Last long?

TiA
`Casper


The first lights will provide plenty output at a total of 12000 Lumens
at a 6000k value. The issue for me would be the brand, which isn't well
known. Therefore, the life of them is unknown. Many people think all
LEDs are the same, which they aren't. They all require drivers to
operate and the manufacturer of the drivers play a key role in their
longevity.

All you can do is consider the reviews, the listed life expectancy, the
warranty (if applicable) and determine what the manufacturer will do if
they don't reach the length of hours suggested. Then again, how will
anyone really know unless you attach a timer to them. Bottom line, if
you get 10 years out of them, it's a great deal.

Also remember one thing... ALL LED brightness dims as they age. Some
more than others.

LED output derteriorates a LOT less than flourescent - and the RGB
type lose a lot less than the "white" ones that depend on
electroflourecence. The drover technology has REALLY improved, and as
long as the active devices are properly heat sinked to the aluminum
housing the drivers should easily outlast the LEDS. This has not
always been the case - and I had a LOT of early chinese LED lamps that
failed because the LEDs were not thermally connected to their heat
sinks and the drivers were not heat sinked at all. The ones I am using
now I have not had a single failure, and they average 10-12 hours a
day. At a client's factory and warehouse the only failures they have
had in 7 years is solder joints between panels letting go. The
maintenance guy has a couple spares - replacements under warranty in
the first 2 years that he repaired - so now when a unit fails he just
swaps it out and resolders all the links on the dead one.