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    Default Hacked led bulb

    Evening all, I now have cheap led bulbs that should last years.
    Has anyone seen this video ?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H09SI5qLmtY

    Led house hold bulbs are designed to burn out every 6-12 months

    I have just brought these bulbs to day and they can be hacked
    Down to 2.9w or 4.5w, they run cool, (40c instead of 80c)

    There on amazon

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    Hope this can help some fellow growers save some money.

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    I had Halogen in the kitchen before LED & the LED is over two year of age & still going strong:
    It's Not What You Know, It's What You Can Prove

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    The leds used to run cold and they realised led would last years, so they have redesigned them to run hot, new leds, just touch the outer casing and you will see (rated 15000 hours on the box, leds are meant to last 50,000).
    If you running leds in a cold room, there going to run cooler and last longer but in the summer (25c) with low airflow there going to run hot, all electricity parts burn out quicker if there on a hot, cold cycle.( 25c(cold) 90c(hot)).

    I am sure they will do the same to phones, tablets etc( currently apple, Samsung use updates and windows software slows down in time, lots of frends and family give me there computer, laptops and i stick linux on them and they run fast, like new every time.

    The way of the UK and most the world is that all electrical item are built to last a certain length of time and they spend a lot of time money to make this happen, just like the led panels you buy, the weak part is the driver, maybe its designed to run constantly for 3 years, but Turing it off between crops and dry the weed, dimming the led, you may get 4 years or longer, most growers will be happy with this and not give it a second thought.

    My lumtek digital 600w hps was one of the first, it was built really well and it run cold, 12 years later it still worked perfect.
    It's the way of the world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CheapHomeGrown View Post
    The leds used to run cold and they realised led would last years, so they have redesigned them to run hot, new leds, just touch the outer casing and you will see (rated 15000 hours on the box, leds are meant to last 50,000).
    If you running leds in a cold room, there going to run cooler and last longer but in the summer (25c) with low airflow there going to run hot, all electricity parts burn out quicker if there on a hot, cold cycle.( 25c(cold) 90c(hot)).

    I am sure they will do the same to phones, tablets etc( currently apple, Samsung use updates and windows software slows down in time, lots of frends and family give me there computer, laptops and i stick linux on them and they run fast, like new every time.

    The way of the UK and most the world is that all electrical item are built to last a certain length of time and they spend a lot of time money to make this happen, just like the led panels you buy, the weak part is the driver, maybe its designed to run constantly for 3 years, but Turing it off between crops and dry the weed, dimming the led, you may get 4 years or longer, most growers will be happy with this and not give it a second thought.

    My lumtek digital 600w hps was one of the first, it was built really well and it run cold, 12 years later it still worked perfect.
    It's the way of the world.
    Reminds me of that story afew years ago about the Queen mother's fridge, it was still working 60+ years after it was bought.

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    Sounds about right, things used to last, now we throw everything away, and talk about recycling and the environment,
    The system makes no sense Doink.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CheapHomeGrown View Post
    Sounds about right, things used to last, now we throw everything away, and talk about recycling and the environment,
    The system makes no sense Doink.
    I agree.
    My parents were post war babies, they laugh when people talk about recycling as if it's a new concept. Fact is we have been recycling throughout history.
    It's only the last 60 years or so that we became a throwaway society, mainly because the corporations pushed single use plastic on us, then blamed us for environmental damage. And the truth is that most plastic can't be recycled anyway, that's why it gets shipped to the other side of the planet to be incinerated.

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    [QUOTE=Doink;1071256354 the truth is that most plastic can't be recycled anyway,[/QUOTE]

    Most plastic can fairly easily be recycled, the issue is often sorting it into the different categories

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    Quote Originally Posted by M_C View Post
    I had Halogen in the kitchen before LED & the LED is over two year of age & still going strong:
    Same here, I swapped from halogen to LED kitchen and bathroom got the Phillips ones from Tesco...Kitchen has 2 x lightbars with 4 lamps per bar, had one fail in five years and I leave them on all night...Had some cheap ones from screwfix that only lasted around 18mths...Get what you pay for I guess plus I feel more confident of suing Philips than some Chinese seller on amazon or ebay if the house burns down due to a malfunction





    Regards BL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bud Lightyear View Post
    Same here, I swapped from halogen to LED kitchen and bathroom got the Phillips ones from Tesco...Kitchen has 2 x lightbars with 4 lamps per bar, had one fail in five years and I leave them on all night...Had some cheap ones from screwfix that only lasted around 18mths...Get what you pay for I guess plus I feel more confident of suing Philips than some Chinese seller on amazon or ebay if the house burns down due to a malfunction





    Regards BL
    Running leds at the coldest part of the day and you leaving them on for hours.( they should last years)
    Leds tend to break, if there switched on/off too often, hot/cold cycle. 25c/85c
    I have brought a few different brands of led( b22, e27) and they all state 15,000h (Lifespan)@25c
    Maybe Philips last longer but they also run very hot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bud Lightyear View Post
    Same here, I swapped from halogen to LED kitchen and bathroom got the Phillips ones from Tesco...Kitchen has 2 x lightbars with 4 lamps per bar, had one fail in five years and I leave them on all night...Had some cheap ones from screwfix that only lasted around 18mths...Get what you pay for I guess plus I feel more confident of suing Philips than some Chinese seller on amazon or ebay if the house burns down due to a malfunction





    Regards BL
    You know the Chinese make the Bubs for them, don't you? There is no more
    american companys working in the US, they all have move decades ago to China.

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