>Numlock LED powered continuously since 1995 still works
>LED light bulb in room dies after 2 months
Explain
Numlock LED powered continuously since 1995 still works
Ryan Martinez
William Hughes
>Numlock LED runs at the lowest power possible that you can see
>LED light bulb runs at highest power possible to it can be made cheaply
You are now educated.
Austin Fisher
lower wattage = lower operating temperature = longer lifespan
Elijah Davis
>he doesn't underclock his ceiling lights
You're not going to make it, friend. It's over for you.
Caleb Lee
Fun fact, you can snip a resistor in your led lights to quadruple the lifespan at minimal light output cost
Christopher Barnes
led bulbs are built to fail by always being overdriven, you could technically remedy this by limiting the current they get with resistors
Colton Hughes
because what kind of fucking moron would make lightbulbs that last forever effectively killing their own business?
oh yeah, you.
Chase Cruz
The real reason is that LED bulbs are made to fail by running them at a high enough power that they last for 2 years.
If you added 2x the number of LEDs and doubled the size of the power supply and kept the same power, they would last for decades. But of course manufacturers don't want that.
Elijah Long
I saw this in some bigclive video, seems pretty neat
Gavin Mitchell
>remove resistor
>add resistor
who do I believe?
Brayden Davis
You don't underclock them. You change a current sense resistor for a higher value so the IC sees double the current than what is actually going through.
Jason Howard
Neither. You replace a resistor.
Connor Stewart
There are two resistors in parallel to fine tune the resistance of the circuit.
By removing the lower resistor you are increasing the resistance of the circuit
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Camden Thompson
>You don't underclock them. You change a crystal oscillator output to a lower value so the CPU sees a lower value on its CLK# pin.
Leo Morales
heat. heat kills electronics. LED bulbs have tiny circuit boards inside. If they are mounted in sealed enclosures with no ventilation they get too hot.
Justin Moore
The led bulb on your ceiling overheats to death, while that little led consumes almost no power and doesn't produce any heat.
This is why saudi arabia made philips made those led light bulbs that last almost forever because they consume almost no electricity.
Landon Hall
tldr: adding resistors in series increases resistance, adding them in parallel lowers it, so the answer depends on which you feel like doing
koish
Ethan Roberts
If you change the crystal oscillator, yes, you are underclocking them.
Where is the crystal oscillator in your LED bulb?
What you are actually changing is probably the width of the PWM signal in the power supply.
Not even undervolting, because LEDs are driven at constant voltage. You are current limiting them.
Isaac Peterson
Technically both then, dipshit.
Daniel Bailey
You could just not cargo-cult what Any Forums says and pay attention in physics/electronics/circuits class
Juan Morris
It's literally proven that lightbulb manufacturers deliberately make lightbulbs which die in less than 2000 hours of use. They engineer them to die exactly as advertised. Look into planned obsolescence.
Luke Johnson
run your lights for 8 hours then touch one directly and find out
Blake Cox
> ricing your lightbulbs
Any Forums's Any Forums Technology, everyone.
Landon Thomas
>This is why saudi arabia made philips made those led light bulbs that last almost forever because they consume almost no electricity.
Which ones?
Gavin Bell
i got the same carpet
Tyler Roberts
I wouldn't quite go that far in saying that.
They are built down to a price and consumers are too stupid to realize that "not for totally enclosed fixtures" actually means something.
Could be argued that bulb companies rely on consumer ignorance to continue to sell garbage bulbs.