[ohioshooter]

We have replaced 4 of the decorative LED bulbs in our 2 month old house. The replacement bulbs (same brand and wattage) say 15,000 hours life. Am I the only one? Never had this problem before. Our last house was all LED.

[Keefelane66]

Although it was an expense we replaced every light bulb in out home when we moved in in 2010. We have not had to replace any led builds yet. Knock on wood.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by ohioshooter

We have replaced 4 of the decorative LED bulbs in our 2 month old house. The replacement bulbs (same brand and wattage) say 15,000 hours life. Am I the only one? Never had this problem before. Our last house was all LED.

Must be a bad batch of bulbs, we switched to LED’s a long time ago and never had one burnout. Hopefully they are not introducing planned obsolescence into the newer bulbs to force consumers to have to buy new ones, like Apple does with iPhones?

[retiredguy123]

LED bulbs can fail do to excessive heat. If these bulbs are in an enclosed fixture, they are more likely to fail.

[Stu from NYC]

In our 2 1/2 years of living here we have already replaced a handful of our led bulbs and that were not enclosed in a fixture

[villagetinker]

I saw an article recently regarding life od LED lamps. As noted above the type of lamp housing will effect the life, especially if the LED lamps are enclosed and get hot. The next item was buying the least expensive LED amps as these typically skimp on internal components and heat sink materials resulting in short life. Without more info i would suggest getting name brand LEDs, most of these have a warranty/ We replaced all of the lamps in our house in 2013, and have only had 3 or 4 failures of the original CREE lamps. We changed several of the original fixtures and then installed new LED lamps and these have had a higher failure rate then the original CREE lamps, which are no longer available.
The other possibility is if this fixture is on a dimmer, and the LEDs are NOT rated for dimming, this may cause premature failure.

[vintageogauge]

In 5+ years we have had two or three fail but they do appear to be dimmer now than when new or maybe my eyes are getting bad. Do they in fact start getting dim after several years?

[ohioshooter]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

LED bulbs can fail do to excessive heat. If these bulbs are in an enclosed fixture, they are more likely to fail.

Not excessive heat. LEDs don’t get that HOT. We bought a 4 pack to replace the bad ones, we now have our fifth one flickering. Just ordered 4 more.

[Dotneko]

Originally Posted by ohioshooter

We have replaced 4 of the decorative LED bulbs in our 2 month old house. The replacement bulbs (same brand and wattage) say 15,000 hours life. Am I the only one? Never had this problem before. Our last house was all LED.

If your house is still under warranty, they will come and replace them.

[derkster]

I have replaced a number of bulbs in the first 6 months after moving in.

[banjobob]

I have noticed the same problem with some LED bulbs , short life. However I have a LED spotlight shining on our flagpole that has been burning 24/7 for almost 3 years unbelievable.

[Tonydivo]

Originally Posted by ohioshooter

We have replaced 4 of the decorative LED bulbs in our 2 month old house. The replacement bulbs (same brand and wattage) say 15,000 hours life. Am I the only one? Never had this problem before. Our last house was all LED.

New house starting to replace because they are blowing out

[Tonydivo]

LED supposed to last ours are all blowing out, new house

[annhennessy]

Call warranty the will replace them for a year. There was a bad batch of bulbs, and they did nit catch them all

[annhennessy]

Call warranty they will replace them up to a year