Light bulb technology has made great strides in recent decades, much to the benefit of the average consumer. Not only are they more cost-effective and longer-lasting in most cases than they were ...
LED lightbulbs are often advertised as lasting years, sometimes even more than a decade. There's an unexpected reason they ...
Light bulbs are just about everywhere these days. As it turns out though, the past few decades have seen a lot happen in the lighting technology space, most notably the increased prevalence of LED ...
Heat, in particular, can cause these components to quickly break, so installing an LED bulb in a hot corner of your home or in a deep-set socket with poor ventilation can cause the lights to go out ...
They’re consistently popular with the readers, which is admittedly part of my (and EDN’s) motivation to continue doing them. But I personally also find them fascinating; inevitably I come across at ...
We are told that LED-based lighting will provide a very long service life per bulb, but here comes “Sportin’ Life” again (from Porgy and Bess) to put the lie to that claim. (It ain’t necessarily so.) ...
New standards for light-emitting diode (LED) lightbulbs announced by the Biden administration last week will likely mean measurable savings for American households, but experts say the bulbs last so ...