Third Gear's L.E.D Interior/Exterior Package!!!!

mistermoe · 04-22-2011, 04:49 PM

What's the life expect on these? I bought a kit from another forum sponsor (yourled), the license plate lied died every month, replaced them 5-6x times while the dome lights died after 6 months

ThirdGearPerformance · 04-23-2011, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by mistermoe

What's the life expect on these? I bought a kit from another forum sponsor (yourled), the license plate lied died every month, replaced them 5-6x times while the dome lights died after 6 months

I've been selling LEDs for about 2 years and only receive a less then 10 LEDs back. Our failure rate is .5% and i would expect our LEDs to last Years, not months.

wstar · 04-24-2011, 08:01 AM

In general LEDs (as a technology) have insane lifetimes compared to incandescent lighting. If an LED fails early (the LED itself, rather than the driver circuitry or whatever), it means it was being overdriven with more voltage than it was designed for (which I imagine some of these companies might do, to get a little more initial brightness out of the setup, if they don't care about long term failure rate).

04-24-2011, 08:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
wstar A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,024 Drives: too slow Rep Power: 3596	In general LEDs (as a technology) have insane lifetimes compared to incandescent lighting. If an LED fails early (the LED itself, rather than the driver circuitry or whatever), it means it was being overdriven with more voltage than it was designed for (which I imagine some of these companies might do, to get a little more initial brightness out of the setup, if they don't care about long term failure rate). __________________ 7AT Track Car! Journal thread / Car setup details

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04-22-2011, 04:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
mistermoe Base Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: ottawa canada Posts: 35 Drives: 2010 370Z MB Rep Power: 17	What's the life expect on these? I bought a kit from another forum sponsor (yourled), the license plate lied died every month, replaced them 5-6x times while the dome lights died after 6 months