Oh. Huh. Gotta say, I wasn’t expecting to encounter anyone who had good experience with those bulbs.
That… blows a hole in my theory.
I still don’t regret the cheap, foreign light bulbs I got off of eBay (best LEDs I’ve bought thus far)… but maybe my family and I have just been unlucky with name brand LEDs.
If you’re using the power switch on the wall to turn on and off your hue bulbs they will die ultra quick. Use Zigbee to turn them on and off and they will last a LONG time. I buried my wall switches with blank plates when I set up my system.
Oh, gotcha. Yeah I had a free home inspection for heating and cooling efficiency and the guy gave me a bunch of LEDs that he had to give to the old boomers still running incandescent. I don’t think any of them lasted longer than a year. I stopped using Hue whites in lieu of Zwave wall switches so I don’t have to worry about either anymore thankfully.
I haven’t had any problem either, even in enclosed fixtures that the bulbs I have aren’t rated for. There are so many different models I don’t know if you can totally generalize by brand. And I don’t use anything higher than 60 watt equivalent. There is such a thing as too bright.
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Oh. Huh. Gotta say, I wasn’t expecting to encounter anyone who had good experience with those bulbs.
That… blows a hole in my theory.
I still don’t regret the cheap, foreign light bulbs I got off of eBay (best LEDs I’ve bought thus far)… but maybe my family and I have just been unlucky with name brand LEDs.
If you’re using the power switch on the wall to turn on and off your hue bulbs they will die ultra quick. Use Zigbee to turn them on and off and they will last a LONG time. I buried my wall switches with blank plates when I set up my system.
I don’t think they were hue bulbs. I think they were just regular LED light fixture bulbs.
Oh, gotcha. Yeah I had a free home inspection for heating and cooling efficiency and the guy gave me a bunch of LEDs that he had to give to the old boomers still running incandescent. I don’t think any of them lasted longer than a year. I stopped using Hue whites in lieu of Zwave wall switches so I don’t have to worry about either anymore thankfully.
I haven’t had any problem either, even in enclosed fixtures that the bulbs I have aren’t rated for. There are so many different models I don’t know if you can totally generalize by brand. And I don’t use anything higher than 60 watt equivalent. There is such a thing as too bright.