CREE Has Been Purchased New LEDs In The Works

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Is this isolated to 120vac lamp + driver complete units? Sounds like the drivers are the fault. Overcurrent on the chips. I refuse to use anything but Meanwell drivers for 120vac. And my emitters are large enough to incorporate brushless dual ball bearing fans. I take the note about integrated lamps which I have never purchased.

I do not buy off-brand AC floodlamps. Only security lamps with a 15-second on time.

Well-built LED stadium floodlamps are hideously expensive. 3K for 1,000 watts consumed. In pallet lots.

Aluminum heat sinks that have been black hard anodized are ugly but yield 140% efficiency.

Doesn't matter if it was the driver or the LED, dead is dead and not coming back to life. Creates a bad reputation for the company name regardless when one stamps their company name on the product and it fails way before it should.

One would have though that the manufacturer of their own LEDs would at least choose carefully driver parameters which balance operation life vs brightness. There is trade offs that must happen, drive them at edge of absolute max light output and you get a much lower life.. Drive them even 10% under the max brightness and you will get extremely long life.. Works that way even with the driver circuit so that even applies here.

But just a word of warning, the LED lights whether just the chip or a complete bulb going forward will not have anything to do with the remaining Cree business units that where not sold off. So, just be careful when considering buying just on the name that is stamped on the LED product.