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to: mike
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-03-21 19:26:40
subject: Re: Lighting, fluorescents and LEDs

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Too high a voltage to get the brightness level up??

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Glenn M.
"mike"  wrote in message
news:iai303ljuladekdc937g6jrqosmaer3ama{at}4ax.com...
>
> Traffic lights around here are LED.  Quite a few LEDs burn out.
>
> However, the burn-out is so quick, I'd almost wonder if they had a
> manufacturing defect.
>
> /m
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:57:53 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>They say something about it lasting 50 times longer than a regular
>>lightbulb. Has anyone here ever had an LED burn out?
>>
>>Geo.
>>
>>"John Beamish"  wrote in message
>>news:op.tpaeqfnfm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>> There was a thread (here? or in a different homeless newsgroup?) about
>>> the
>>> move from incandescents to compact fluorescents.  Some comments
>>> mentioned
>>> LEDs and their colour.
>>>
>>> Found this today.  It "sort of" adds to that dialog.
>>>
>>> http://www.physorg.com/news93198212.html
>>>
>>> Powerful Little Light: LED With 1,000 Lumens

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