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Do dimmers affect the life of LED? (self.homeimprovement)

submitted 1 year ago by Tandybaum to c/homeimprovement

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In my kitchen I have a flushmount light with an integrated led. I put in an LED dimmer on the switch and all is working well.

However, I had to replace it way sooner than I was expecting. Is there a possibly that the dimmer is hard on it?

I have the exact same one on another non-dimmer switch that is still running fine. That said the other one gets much less use so it could just be that.

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[–] 80085 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A lot of the LED bulbs have very cheap power supplies/control circuits. I've had the best luck with the filament-style LEDs. I remember seeing a video a while back stating filament-style LEDs tend to have better cooling because the driver circuit is surrounded by the metal screw material and the LEDs are separated from the driver PCB. I also haven't had a Phillips Hue bulb die on me yet, but they are quite expensive.

[–] Tandybaum 1 points 1 year ago

This is an in integrated LED fixture. Essentially a LED strip.