LED bulbs aren't bulbs at all wink

Apart from units that are ment to replace the incandescent bulb in "old fashioned" lights (example, another example) I have yet to see any LED light where you can exchange the "bulb" without special tools. The LED is rated for 50.000 hours or so, or about 5 - five - years of continuous light. The typical classical incandescent light bulb will give up at the first hard knock, no matter what the life span on the package says.

The LED will die if it gets too hot or if too much current flows through it (usually because it then will overheat).

The most vulnerable part of a LED light isn't typically the LED, but the on-off switch and the electronics that control how much current the LED receives.



Edited by MostlyHarmless (04/06/11 12:37 PM)