Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[VNA]

Modern light bulbs. Claimed to last 100,000 hours. Foccin tosh. Barely last as long as the old filament lamps, and 10 times the foccin price too boot. Sat reading, and the glass section fell from the ceiling light and shattered on the floor, leaving the screw base still screwed in to the fitting.

That seems odd.  Just about every light in my house is now LED.  Started changing over in 2015, pretty much everything LED by 2017 and not one failure yet.  I always buy Phillips, Osram or Sylvania.  Still on old fashioned fluorescent tubes in the garage though.

At work all the basic lighting is now LED, but I don’t recognise the brands they supply us with.  The LED ceiling panels are excellent but the power supplies that come with them are crap.  The LED fluorescent replacement tubes are not very bright and they don’t seem to last any longer than fluorescents, though at least the fittings last almost forever as it’s 240 straight onto the LED tube.  But what I notice at work is when they try to save on price by buying cheap, the reality is it costs them a fortune.