My LEDs
FYI: I have been posting updates for those of us who have already read the OP below. For anyone new to the thread, it might be best to skip down below all of these updates, read the body of the post...
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AndyfromTucson wrote:
I just bought these 24 LED panels on eBay, which I believe are the same as the ones discussed earlier in this thread:
BA15S 1156 1141 Dome Bulb 24-5050 SMD LED,Warm White
BA15S 1156 1141 Dome Bulb 24-5050 SMD LED,Warm White
When I ran them for about 20-30 minutes the LEDs seemed to get very hot. Has anybody had any problems with the heat generated by these guys?
None of them run cool to the touch. But mine run way cooler than incandescent.
Figure this...
In my experience they use about 1/5 the power of incandescent per roughly the same amount of light output.. Therefore one could surmise that an incandescent bulb is losing about 5 times the energy to heat as the comparable set of LEDs. I know that my 1141 incandescents will burn the living cr@p out of my fingers after being on for just a half minute or so. (Well... truthfully... I can't be 100% sure. An experiment is supposed to be repeatable... and I only tried this once!)
My LEDs will be very warm, but will not burn me after running several minutes or more.
So just how hot are we talking here?
