I thought it was over
I thought that after retiring I wouldn't have to smell burned up electrical parts anymore. Last year I wanted to add LED lights to my FW but also had a ton of other stuff to do. I didn't want to make ...
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rjxj wrote:
Again, I have never seen any bulb with a duty cycle. They didn't say it had a limited time that it could be ON. Have you ever seen or bought or heard of a bulb that is sold and it say do not leave this bulb on for more than X amount of time or it will go over 300 degrees and start to smoke and disintegrate. You are just assuming this only because you consider it to be intermittent because its being listed as a back up light. A dome light isn't on for long but if you were to forget and leave it on it doesn't go into melt down.
You said: " I'd say that LED had a definite time limit and you reached it". Again, where is any bulb listed like a welder or other device which does have a duty cycle?
It didn't reach some time limit, it's just junk that was not properly engineered. Simple as that.
Yes it is junk--at least many of them are. But my point is they can get away with that junk more easily for automotive use--for which the bulbs were likely originally designed--than for RVs.
Nothing to do with a rated duty cycle (though with iffy Chinese electronics I take that with a grain of salt). The engineering that went into those things likely was copied from another, who also copied it from another--with degradation at each itineration (if only for cost savings on labor and/or materials).
Now what if you happened to test that bulb for only 2 minutes and all seemed fine. Then one night left the light on and it ended up causing a fire? To me the cost difference for decent--and that does not mean expensive--LED bulbs are worth it. Amazon has more than enough "burned up," "smoked" and similar comments for me to take a chance--and generally Amazon doesn't have the straight-from-China sellers like ebay does.
Mike
