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Comment by simoncion

3 hours ago

> I’ve literally never had an LED bulb die that can remember.

This 120v-using USian has had many fail, and if they don't fail by intermittently blinking and flickering [0], they fail by slowly giving me worse and worse and worse headaches [1]. Unless you choose to count the fact that they were technically still emitting light, I've never gotten the rated lifetime out of a screw-in LED bulb.

[0] ...as all of the ACE Hardware ones did...

[1] ...as all of the dimmable [2] CREE ones did...

[2] These were never attached to a dimmer. At the time, the advice was to get LED bulbs rated for use in a dimmer, as it was believed that that would get you higher-quality construction.