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Old 09-10-2012, 09:27 PM
raymr raymr is offline
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Originally Posted by cullennewsom View Post
That's a lie. The LED's do lose brightness. The curve for that is not linear. Typical lifetime is tens of thousands of hours. But, more common is the failure of electrolytic capacitors in the 10,000-20,000 hrs time period. I had one factory defect that failed after a few thousand hours. That's annoying at $25 bucks a pop.
So if they're on for 12 hours a day, that's ~3 years. Not so great I guess. Hopefully, by that time their replacements will be a lot cheaper.
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