Hmmmmmmm..... I have replaced all the interior lighting in my coach with LED's. That's 40 ceiling puck lights, 3 sconces, 8 vanity lights over two bath sinks. the only thing I have not yet attempted are the 12" fluorescent tubes. Closing in on two years, I have yet to have an LED unit fail.
In the S&B condo, I have replaced all bulbs with LED's. This includes all lamps and overhead lighting, even some chandelier bulbs and vanity lights in the bath. Again, not a single failure.
To the point of losing 1/2 brighness at 100,000hrs...... You do realize that comes to 11 years of 24/7/365 operation, right?
LED's are the future of lighting. Advances are coming amazingly fast. Many auto headlight designs are now LED and in fact I replaced my Jeep Wranglers "oh-so-dim" OEM headlights with LED versions that do an amazing job of lighting the road ahead.
As with any new technology, LED's today are expensive. No more-so than CFL bulbs were when they were first released! Volume and production efficiencies will drive pricing down as they become more and more commonplace. We've already seen great price strides made in just the last year!
As with any new technology, shop wisely, understand what you are getting and what you need. Don't automatically buy solely on price as there is certainly some cheap junk out there.
Gdetrailer wrote:
Not likely.
LEDs have a secondary drawback, they FADE in brightness, the manufacturers leave out the fact that IF the LEDs make it to the rated 100,000 hr mark they WILL be at less than half the original brightness.
My own experience with LEDs bears that out even in a short two month life of a LED light I had, before it burned out it was considerably weaker than when it was new. Started out as a 9W LED with a lumens rating of 40W but if you matched it to an incadescent bulb it was only as bright as a 25W incadescent when it was new. Before it burned out a 4W incadescent nightlight was brighter than the LED.
The manufacturers also are lying about the longevity of white LEDs, they are overdriving the LEDs to get the max brightness. In doing so they are SHORTENING THE LIFE of the LED.
