> Speaking of LED lights, that expensive Osram 100 watt equivalent LED
> bulb I mentioned awhile back has failed. I turned it off one night and
> the next day it would not light. Life span - a few days past 9 months.
>
One fixture in my kitchen fluorescent retrofit has been running over 2 years, all 3 fixtures have been going over a year for sure. Other than some crummy soldering issues (these SMT high-power LEDs are tricky to hand-solder) there have been no failures.
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Jon