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Re: Dead LEDs

by Wouter van Ooijen :: Rate this Message:

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> The universal claim is that white LEDs last 100,000 hours. I
> can assure you that many don't come anywhere close (by 2+
> orders of magnitude in some cases).

Just out of interest: how do you test this? 100.000 minus 2 orders of
magnitude is 41 days, that's testable (with some patience), but how do
you test 410 days? Or are there known relations between lifetimes at
various currents?

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