How do I increase the lifespan of the backlight in my LED TV?

[Ifixstuff9]

As someone with an interest in TV repair, I've noticed that backlight failure seems to be a very common issue with newer LED TVs. From what I've read on this forum it is because TV manufactures drive the LEDs with too much current and don't provide adequate cooling. What can I do to prevent this from happening to my own LED TV? I've turned the backlight brightness from 100 down to 65, will this be enough to improve the lifespan? Now I've repaired backlights before on TVs that I bought cheap with the intention of repairing and selling, but I don't want to have to repair the backlight on my own personal TV that I payed retail price for.

[budm]

Re: How do I increase the lifespan of the backlight in my LED TV?

Turn it down as low as you can and still get good pictures, I have my LG at only 35% and it's still pretty bright to me, make sure to do that on all input source settings.

[diif]

Re: How do I increase the lifespan of the backlight in my LED TV?

Yes, turning the backlight down does improve lifespan.
I always recommend buying a TV with a 5 year warranty.

[Chungalin]

Re: How do I increase the lifespan of the backlight in my LED TV?

When I fix a LED backlight by replacing just shorted / open LEDs, I always instruct customer to lower the Backlight Level setting to 50% or less. No returns to date.

[freakaftr8]

Re: How do I increase the lifespan of the backlight in my LED TV?

And if your TV does not have a backlight control setting it should have a power save setting turn that on.