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[-] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Got cheap, no-name, unbranded LED bulbs off of eBay. Years later, not one of them had broken.

But Philips LED bulbs? Those things don't last a year. In fact, none of the high-rated, "high quality," top-ten-list, LED light bulbs have ever outlasted an incandescent in my experience.

If you want your LEDs to last, buy the no-name bulbs, guys. The Phoebus Cartel is still out there.

[-] button_masher@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

Boy do I have a video for you. It's regarding the cartel and light bulb engineering if you'd be interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

Monopolies are scary though, especially if they can make such collective actions without telling anyone.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Ha, I was about to dig out that video.

I will say in regards to LEDs, it's a bit of a tricky thing. Philips in general are terrible, I don't know what they do, but they're also really pretty. Amazing for rarely-active mood lighting. For actual lighting, I use the white-tone-changeable Ikea bulbs, and they seem to last forever, hot as they get.

That's the weirdest thing: The Ikeas run hotter than the Philips, yet still last longer. I really get the feel that Philips optimizes purely for color, smoothness and softness. They know what people use their overly expensive stuff for since in some areas they got little competition. It's annoying, but for those purposes it also works really well.

[-] button_masher@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I love that man, his brain and how he probes any subject matter which comes across his party.

The way my head absorbed what you said was: Phillips is the Apple of the LEDs. If you want something longer lasting, stick with the "ol reliable" brand such had to innovate to sell cheaper. I wonder if people have done experiments..

[-] pungunner@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Do not remember the video but isn't that the whole problem: LEDs like to be cooler. Bright pretty LEDs get hoter. People buy smaller prettier bulbs. Things have a tradeoff independent of price. A small bright LED that is in an enclosed space will not last long. Recommend buying pretty LEDs and using them without enclosure or buying dimmable and setting them to 50% on default.

And not buying the integrated shit.

[-] sky@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

I will say that maybe Philips' regular LED bulbs are bad, but I have Hue bulbs I've been using since 2015 without issues still. They've been extremely reliable.

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[-] entropie@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 year ago

I have Philips hue leds in daily use that are actually 6 years old.

[-] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Gonna add on to your comment by suggesting ESP-based lights running WLED for any fans of smart lighting; having smart lights that run FOSS firmware, don't need an external internet connection to work, and integrate well with reactive lighting solutions like HyperHDR and LedFX is pretty dang nifty!

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