• Melkath@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s a thing I forget a lot.

    Kinda like when CFLs first dropped and a lot of them were like “this light bulb will last over 80 years!”, when in reality they lasted 2 years.

    In reality, at that point, their prototype had been made a year and a half ago and had far outlived the standard incandescent bulb, so they put an assininely huge number on the packaging.

    6 months later, the prototype burned out.

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      1 year ago

      unrelated to the original topic but man, i fucking love LEDs.

      they just politely sip electricity and have a huge lifespan, then when they do kick the bucket it’s not unlikely you can fix them by swapping a capacitor or something.