Cool, are those LED's or old school halogen's?
I keep buying G4's LED's to replace my old halogen's, but they never last.
Cool, are those LED's or old school halogen's?
I keep buying G4's LED's to replace my old halogen's, but they never last.
Going by the first pic, the cover looks like plastic, so it's probably LEDs. Halogen lamps would need (more) venting holes and/or more "space" inside the housing.
And if your G4s are constantly dying, it's either "just" crappy quality with overdriven LEDs, or it could also be the housing. Halogens are a bit more heat resistant, so if you don't have enough ventilation the LEDs just cook themselves to death.
I've bought different kinds over the past 15 years, The quality on all of them can't be that bad.
I suspect them dying is being fed 12VAC.
The halogens don't have a problem with it, and although these G4 replacements should rectify the AC properly, I still don't think they can handle it long term.
So my next step is to replace the bricks with 12VDC
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