It seems pretty obvious that manufacturer's would like their "bulbs" to fail sooner, rather than later.. so they can sell us more. What if you double the LED area, and half the current? Twice the cost at what lifetime?
Getting rid of the heat is interesting. So my silly idea is more air flow is more cooling. What about a chimney like heatsink? (I'll have to buy some and fabricate my own beer can coolers. :^)
I'm not judging them. They've got a tough problem keeping the new bulbs co ol in legacy fixtures that try to keep them hot.
My solution would be less power, less light, and more heatsink area.
I think the 5W bulb runs cooler to the touch, but I haven't checked. The 5 W has a smaller heatsink than the 8.5W. That's a shame, but it means they carefully decided how cool they needed to run, and sized the heatsink for t hat.
I expect the electrolytic reservoir cap will be the life-limiter, only 105C rated in the videos I saw.
It still makes sense as-is. The 8.5W bulb is much brighter than the 13W CF L it's replacing tonight. If it only lasts 10K hours it'll save 45kWH in that span, saving ~$5. That's twice what I paid for the bulb.
No advantage to doubling the LED area. They're already on an aluminum-core PCB, nicely tied to a pretty thick Al heatsink. The thermal design is very good within their constraints--spreading the LEDs apart wouldn't help.
Halving the current would chop the output, but the bulb would last forever.
If they'd transplanted a set of 5W guts into the 8.5W heatsink, I probably wouldn't be chopping up beer cans today.
I just put a pair on another 8.5W unit. Shaved 32C off the casing temp. I'm using zip-ties instead of hose clamps during gluing.
They'll run fine as-purchased, maybe even last 15-25K hours. Hard to gripe about that for the price.
I've got places where CFLs won't light in the winter, or if they light, the y're dim and never get warm enough to shine. These will fix that, light instant ly, save energy, and that's pretty fun.
OK I guess it depends on what is going to fail. I was thinking the leds were running too hot and having more with less current would allow them all to be a bit cooler. (At the die.) If it's some other component that fails due to the heat. (your suggested Al cap.) Then I agree more leds won't help.
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(Right.. that's what I was trying to say earlier, a little more cost, but perhaps a lot longer lifetime, and much lower sales for the manufacture r.)
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Yup, good stuff. I'm going to buy some for our bathroom. That's the one p lace I find that cfl's are failing early. (I have two teenagers who like to tak e long steamy showers.) No beer can coolers though.
Grin.. yup I do have a bunch. They are now mostly in the attic, and my thought is to leave them there and let my kids throw 'em out when I die. :^)
As you probably understand, it's not the new technology that I disliked, but the legislated obsolescence. (I hated the cash for clunkers idea too... sorta similar.)
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I've had zero LED failures after a couple of years. I've returned some brands of LED lamps for having crap power supplies that buzzed or strobed, but those were defective by design rather than failure.
Of course, whether you like LEDs or incandescent really depends on your weather. I like the radiant warmth of incandescent in the winter but they've got to go during summer.
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These LED's are in an Arizona ceiling... already hot, by definition, and seem to be doing fine... I even have three in outside entryway fixtures.
Like I said, I bought just a dozen, and I'm watching them. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I have about 200 100W, 1590 lumen bulbs in my supply closet, mostly because I'm very fond of my several Luxo desk lamps (100W incandescent +
22W Circline fluorescent). They're the best task lights I've ever used.
If LEDs wind up being better, I'm perfectly prepared to chuck tungsten. It's seeing that I care about.
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I have several Ott-Lite's... hard to beat for close-up intense lighting. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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