Originally Posted by
CheapHomeGrown
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.
Bookmarks