Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years?
hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 4 days agoThis sounds like an interesting hobby? Care to share more about how/why you are into dumpster diving for lightbulbs?
Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years?
hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 4 days agoThis sounds like an interesting hobby? Care to share more about how/why you are into dumpster diving for lightbulbs?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 days ago
I saw Big Clive and DiodeGoneWild take some apart, and we had been using halogen or fluorescent ones at home because LED bulbs were over $10 back then. I thought I would learn something about electronics but not really, the failure modes are always the same: about 50% of the time, an LED burns out. 25% of the time, it’s the smoothing inductor gone open circuit. 10% of the time, a bad contact somewhere (usually solder joints on linearly-regulated ones). 5 % work out of the box for some reason. I remain adamant about not paying for LEDs even if dumpster diving is objectively not worth the trouble anymore.