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lame-robot-hoax on Aug 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: LED lights will change the world as incandescent b...

I’ve lived in an apartment with all LED lighting for just over two years, and not a single light has ever gone out in my apartment.

In the apartment I had before with non LED lighting (not sure what it was specifically, I had about 25-30% of my lights fail within 18 months.

Turing_Machine on Aug 15, 2023 [–]

If I remember right, most incandescents that were sold in the U.S. were rated for about 750 hours of life.

That's only a little over a month of continuous burning.

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