Originally Posted by
Kev Williams
Just from personal experience, I'm finding these claims of 10 years to 45 years of LED service life to be complete BS. I haven't bought a lot of LED lights but at this point I'm glad, because I've scrapped several of them- a magnifying glass fixture, 2 of 12 GU10's in some track lighting, and about 4 out of 10 LED 'standard' bulbs. Most started doing the 'flicker' thing; In my case they start flickering for a bit before coming on, then the "a bit" becomes several seconds, then minutes, then infinity. The GU10's just stopped working at about 18 months old. The magnifying glass lights lasted about 3 years, the bulbs are around 1 year old. I was getting more life than that out CFL bulbs.
I have no problem changing out bulbs, unless they cost 9x as much as the ones I replaced...