In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 8 Dec 2020 19:50:37 -0800, Bob F
wrote:

On 12/8/2020 12:14 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:46:08 -0600, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On 12/7/20 2:16 PM, james wrote:
I need to buy one BA15D to replace a burned out Halogen 120V 75W garage
stair light that is attached to the side wall.

It doesn't need to be brightly lit as it's a short set of open steps and
it's not on a dimmer so I don't care about the wattage all that much.

But I was told by someone dimmable LEDs are more robust than non dimmable
LEDs.

All LEDs are long lasting. Decades, I think**. I wouldn't base my
choice on that. If you have no dimmer, you can use any one of the 3
below except are you sure your socket is bayonet style, and that there
are two contacts in the bottom of the socket? Like sewing machines
use? All 3 of them are recommended for sewing machines, that have
bayonet, insert and twist, mounts.

**Most of mine are on only a fraction of the time. Do they ever wear
out? "Unless an actual component in the LED fails, they will provide
light “forever.” While LEDs do not burn out like fluorescent lamps and
other bulbs they will, however, degrade and dim over time. The diode
itself will begin to emit less and less light as the years pass. Still,
LED lamps can last over 25,000 hours."

That's 3 years 24 hours a day. And if it dims, you said you don't need
much light.
....
I have an LED shop light that just died, in less than a year.

Those things have several/many LEDs, right? So if they all stopped at
once, it's not the leds themselves but some part, supplying power to
them, that they share.