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 these LED bulbs are supposed to be fairly long lasting?
Look at the diagram below:
0 6 3 0 0
0 5 2 0 0
0 4 1 0 0
The “0” all indicate LEDs that are still working correctly. The numbers indicate LEDs that have failed and the order in which they failed.
The whole process takes about 90 days. When I put in a new bulb it will work fine for a while. Then LED #1 will start to blink. Shortly afterwards it dies and #2 starts to blink; wash, rinse, repeat through #6.
On the last bulb (one in it when we bought the trailer) it got to #6 blinking with 1-5 burned out after about 90 days and I replaced the bulb.
Now the second bulb has already burned out LEDs 1-5 and #6 is now blinking after about 90 days.
So, my questions are:
1) Is this dangerous? Will it cause a short / fire? Should I not be using that fixture?
2) Is this indicative of an issue with just the fixture itself or could this be an issue with some other part of the electrical systems of the trailer? Since it happend with two bulbs I wouldn't think it would be the bulbs?
3) Would the best approach to a fix be to just replace the fixture or should I try another bulb first?
Any help appreciated.
