Lightbulb problems: fixture or wiring?
All of my light fixtures use the LED so-called “lightbulbs”. The type that mine uses are all 3x5 LEDs. Most of them work fine. But the one over the kitchen sink keeps burning out bulbs quickly. AFAIK ...
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OK, so cheap bulbs can't tolerate fluctuations from crappy converter.
The converter is beyond my means and ability to do much about right now. I can look to see if there are obvious issues like corrosion or loose wires, but that's about as deep as I can get right now due to injuries and lack of funds.
It doesn't surprise me one bit to find out this thing probably has a low quality and / or poorly installed converter.
We've been in this thing 6 months and everytime we turn around I'm having to do some kind of small maintenance to it due to either the lack of original quality or neglect from the first owner.
The bulbs I'm having issues with were purchased at camping world for $15 each. Personally I don't consider that cheap. But, it is what is.
So, after I figured out the type I need I saved two different ones at amazon to purchase in the future:
Bulb 1
Bulb 2
Would either of these be worth buying?
If not can someone drop a link to a quality replacement.
NB: I have no idea how any of this works. It's not like the old bulbs where I could just read the fixture and get the appropriate bulb. IDK if I can put totally dif "bulbs" in it? What I do know is that there's not much room in these fixtures and I won't be able to get anything too much bigger or shaped radically differently in to them.
And, for curiosities sake I just pulled the cover off of every bulb in the whole trailer. And all of them have what looks to me like scorch marks around the socket where the LED boards plug in. Is that normal or something I should worry about?
The converter is beyond my means and ability to do much about right now. I can look to see if there are obvious issues like corrosion or loose wires, but that's about as deep as I can get right now due to injuries and lack of funds.
It doesn't surprise me one bit to find out this thing probably has a low quality and / or poorly installed converter.
We've been in this thing 6 months and everytime we turn around I'm having to do some kind of small maintenance to it due to either the lack of original quality or neglect from the first owner.
The bulbs I'm having issues with were purchased at camping world for $15 each. Personally I don't consider that cheap. But, it is what is.
So, after I figured out the type I need I saved two different ones at amazon to purchase in the future:
Bulb 1
Bulb 2
Would either of these be worth buying?
If not can someone drop a link to a quality replacement.
NB: I have no idea how any of this works. It's not like the old bulbs where I could just read the fixture and get the appropriate bulb. IDK if I can put totally dif "bulbs" in it? What I do know is that there's not much room in these fixtures and I won't be able to get anything too much bigger or shaped radically differently in to them.
And, for curiosities sake I just pulled the cover off of every bulb in the whole trailer. And all of them have what looks to me like scorch marks around the socket where the LED boards plug in. Is that normal or something I should worry about?
