EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03 LED light

[stj]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

lol - philips do the 10year bullshit.
read the small print - it's 10years of use at x-hours per day!
they usually only do a year or 2 running 24/7

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

stick to big names like Osram or Philips.
they may cost more, but i bet they design them better.

lot's of teardowns on candlepower forums and utube anyway.

Heads up! It looks like Phillips shutdown their Holland plant and that all post-2015 T5s are made in PRC! Shit!

While OTOH, their F15T8 manufacturing appears to have been moved to Poland... Why didn't Phillips at least do that with their T5s???

I'm at least a bit stumped! The only non-Chinese T5s that I saw, are new-old-stock at the Claremont, NH Home Depot, LOL.

It's a punch in the face to folks that like T5s!

And Sylvania and/or Osram are guilty of tricking lighting newbies, with a bunch o' LED light bulbs in boxes with a logo bragging about 10 years, like it's something special! Something special=My ass! The laughably low 10 year rating is only 1 year more than the usual 9 year rating of fluorescent light bulbs!

[stj]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

stick to big names like Osram or Philips.
they may cost more, but i bet they design them better.

lot's of teardowns on candlepower forums and utube anyway.

[RukyCon]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

Feit is known to be shit here, too! IIRC, way back in December, 2010, had a new Feit CFL fail within 1 minute after taking the CFL out of the package!
It just suddenly dimmed and went out... Thank God no pop or the like!

I never had a CFL fail like that before and almost all of the feit electric CFLs that i ever used lasted more than a year. But their LED bulbs seem to be mostly crap.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

I've seen LEDs fail after a few months of use, it seems to be really common for that to happen.
But the worst case i had was the two feit electric lamps that fail within ten minutes of each other after a month of use, since then they have lower the quality of their LED lamps by making the heatsink smaller and using cheaper parts in the driver.

CFLs on the other hand seem to last a long time but it's getting harder and harder to find them thanks to LED.

Feit is known to be shit here, too! IIRC, way back in December, 2010, had a new Feit CFL fail within 1 minute after taking the CFL out of the package!
It just suddenly dimmed and went out... Thank God no pop or the like!

[RukyCon]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

I've seen LEDs fail after a few months of use, it seems to be really common for that to happen.
But the worst case i had was the two feit electric lamps that fail within ten minutes of each other after a month of use, since then they have lower the quality of their LED lamps by making the heatsink smaller and using cheaper parts in the driver.

CFLs on the other hand seem to last a long time but it's getting harder and harder to find them thanks to LED.

[stj]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

it's pretty simple,
leds arent suited to playing "bulb".

they need cooling.
custom fittings are great, but the "lamps" cram all the electronics INCLUDING CAPS right under the heatsink.
and the heatsink isnt much use because it's partly covered by the holder.

cfl's arent much different.
i used to use the candle-style ones with the mini-base.
75% of the times they died, i could fix them by replacing the burst electrolytic in the base!!

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: EcoSmart 5csbr650stq1d03

Wow, I wonder if most LED lights are a scam??? Getting reports of them not lasting longer than a CFL from the late Bush Jr. era and the early Obama era, IIRC!

I'm wondering if many LEDs can get outlasted by a T8 and T12 now???

It definitely looks like LEDs commonly get outlasted by possibly even a T12, on cheapo TVs, FFS!

[jazzie366]

So these are dimmable LED bulbs. Well, they were great because you could get a bunch of them for 30$ and that was enough to replace most of the ceiling lights in my attic. Well, they are now dying off and are under 6 months old. Well, what the fuck is going on? One starts off dim, then goes full brightness while buzzing LOUDLY, it's like a 10W speaker with a 50db efficiency making an amplifier style hum.

The other one just goes dim for about 5 second, then goes full bright, no noise.