OK, I made up "rant of the day" as a new acronym. If this thread gets offensive at all, I'm gonna' shut it down, but I thought I'd try. It could be fun.
Well, a couple of days ago I was ranting about modern electronics and their awful connectors in a separate thread. I really appreciated what other folks had to say about that, and the fact remains that misery LOVES company.
Alright, so my rant today is about consumer LED light bulbs.
I get really ticked off at the way LED bulbs that I've been buying behave. I'd say a full third of them just don't work well out of the box. And then another third of them start blinking and flickering for no apparent reason within a month.
These LED bulbs are/were always supposed to last longer than incandescent bulbs, and yeah they're supposed to draw less energy, and yeah the good ones are really whiter (NOT bluer!) than incandescents...
But, jeez... It's either quality control from the factories that are building this or some inherent weaknesses in the circuit boards or cables that these guys use for their LED arrays, but they are mostly a huge disappointment to me.
Well, a couple of days ago I was ranting about modern electronics and their awful connectors in a separate thread. I really appreciated what other folks had to say about that, and the fact remains that misery LOVES company.
Alright, so my rant today is about consumer LED light bulbs.
I get really ticked off at the way LED bulbs that I've been buying behave. I'd say a full third of them just don't work well out of the box. And then another third of them start blinking and flickering for no apparent reason within a month.
These LED bulbs are/were always supposed to last longer than incandescent bulbs, and yeah they're supposed to draw less energy, and yeah the good ones are really whiter (NOT bluer!) than incandescents...
But, jeez... It's either quality control from the factories that are building this or some inherent weaknesses in the circuit boards or cables that these guys use for their LED arrays, but they are mostly a huge disappointment to me.