Re: Dead LEDs

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 15:21:58 Joe Bento wrote:
> I am most curious, and perhaps someone can answer.  You mention that the
> white LED might fail within a 2x magnitude of 100k hours.  100k hours is
> about 11.4 years.  How is MTBF estimated or calculated?  I don't think
> they light an LED at its recommended current and wait - white LEDs
> haven't been around that many years.

Voodoo?? <grins/>

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