I certainly don't miss how much they cost to run though or all the waste heat. Incandescent flashlights also sucked, even tiny LEDs outperform those Maglights from the '90s.
This is certainly not true, at least of LED's in general. Maybe you're buying a pretty good brand. The LED in the picture is at most a year old and as you can see is only operating at about 30%, which is my book means it failed. Probably failed months ago, which means I got less than a year from that bulb, which is only on maybe four hours a day.
Good LEDs are amazing and last a long time. Cheap LED products (basically most stuff at the supermarket) can be really, really horrible - poor colour rendering, ugly tint, flickering - and are more expensive in the long run because they don't last long (insufficient heat sinking, poor drivers, etc.)
I certainly don't miss how much they cost to run though or all the waste heat. Incandescent flashlights also sucked, even tiny LEDs outperform those Maglights from the '90s.
In the winter it's not so much "waste" heat, it's less work your heating has to do. (I know, gas is cheaper.)
They worked. Let me tell you what I'm looking for in a light bulb.....
And even the worst LEDs I've had worked for five times longer than any incandescent.
This is certainly not true, at least of LED's in general. Maybe you're buying a pretty good brand. The LED in the picture is at most a year old and as you can see is only operating at about 30%, which is my book means it failed. Probably failed months ago, which means I got less than a year from that bulb, which is only on maybe four hours a day.
Good LEDs are amazing and last a long time. Cheap LED products (basically most stuff at the supermarket) can be really, really horrible - poor colour rendering, ugly tint, flickering - and are more expensive in the long run because they don't last long (insufficient heat sinking, poor drivers, etc.)