I was very happy to begin with. Now however, I've had one fail so bought spares for both turn and tail lights. So far, three have failed within a few days of use out of eight total. Both 1156 and 1157 bases are involved.
I had the 3 watt yellows in the blinkers for about 6 months before the 5 watt ones became available. No trouble there either, but you've got me wondering if the two red 5 watters I've got sitting on the shelf are going to be okay. I bought those in April 2008 and haven't used them yet.
I haven't had a problem with an amber Luxeon yet, only the center light on a red 1157, the center red on an Eagle eye 5, and an amber Eagle eye 5 with a center and one ring LED.
Might wanna check your voltage. LED's tend to be very touchy about over-voltage. Supposedly the supporting electronics will take care of this, but I have my doubts. Vibration is not supposed to be a problem, but I kinda wonder if an intermittent connection (dirty connector, slightly loose socket or connectors) might give transient voltage spikes that kill the LED's. The low current is sort of a win-lose situation, in that the low current is great for power conservation, but may not be enough to overcome a slightly loose or dirty connection. Hopefully this is just a bad batch, or statistical clumping of early-death samples. Have been tempted to jump on the LED bandwagon, but old Edison bulbs are cheap, easily replaced, and good enough, and they are relatively insensitive to power transients.
Might wanna check your voltage. LED's tend to be very touchy about over-voltage. Supposedly the supporting electronics will take care of this, but I have my doubts.
LEDs are sensitive to over-current rather than over-volatge. The only "supporting electronics" would be a current limiting resistor which is connected in series with the active devices (LEDs).
The problem would be bad LED devices or bad assembly process. The LEDs are surface mount devices.
I just found this thread again so I'll post an update. Superbright just had a bad batch of red 1157 5W Luxeons. The replacements they sent me have been going strong for months and over 5000 miles.
1156s replace the turn signal bulbs. 1157s replace the tail/stop light bulbs. Only the headlights are halogens. I replaced the headlights with HIDs. My Luxeon LEDs are still going strong BTW. It definitely was just that one bad batch that caused a problem in the past.
Thanks - I am just starting to look into replacements for halogen and I didn't know if I had to replace the whole assembly. A plug-n-play bulb is ideal. :yesnod:
I have the same lamps as you. I'm on my second set. The first set died within the first hour, so I called the company, and was told that there had been a "bad batch". They immediately shipped me replacements at no charge. The base colour was different, but the led's were identical.
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