Are your expensive LED lights holding up long term ??

mcattak said:

Guess you will have to stop shopping at walmart

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indagroove said:

There is a middle ground. You can buy boards from US based companies who used diodes made by Samsung overseas. Samsung produces in South Korea, China, and Taiwan. HLG is a good example of a company that you can feel good about supporting in terms of US labor, as they assemble many of their own boards, using top bin Samsung diodes.

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SupraSPL said:

HLGs and CXB3590s that have been running nonstop since 2015 and zero failures and no losss in performance.

The cheap $1 100K potentiometers do fail though and need to be replaced from time to time. I should have bought Bourns.

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Dion said:

Yeah exactly

And also look at the asian markets for ideas

Samsung wouldn't exist if south Koreans didn't exclusively buy it

Koreans pretty much only buy imported if there is none made in Korea and it's what keeps Thier tiny island economy world class

Singapore springs to mind as well

Support made at home when possible

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Raho said:

Korea is not an island

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q3corn said:

But... but there's nothing on my map above them?


Hmmm

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stewart169 said:

I wish the mods would close or delete this thread. I mean it’s in the LED section and I intended it as a discussion on lights to hear about reliability but some of the usual suspects insist on turning it into a political shit show. Sad. IC is more and more turning into RIU lite. That place seems to have turned it around and gotten rid of a couple uncle buck types since I started looking at it some last couple weeks.

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stewart169 said:

I wish the mods would close or delete this thread. I mean it’s in the LED section and I intended it as a discussion on lights to hear about reliability but some of the usual suspects insist on turning it into a political shit show. Sad. IC is more and more turning into RIU lite. That place seems to have turned it around and gotten rid of a couple uncle buck types since I started looking at it some last couple weeks.

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Raho said:

Korea is not an island

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OG_NoMan said:

I am a neutral observer here but you have the first racist/political comment in the thread and are asking why the usual suspects blew it up.

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Originally Posted by Mars Hydro Led View Post
wow, you could use Mars II 700 for 4 years. That's amazing. You must maintain the light well.
We have stopped producing it for a year. There are some new quantum board style lights coming out on our site.

Your response:
I flat out refuse to willingly and knowingly buy ANYTHING made in china simply because they inflicted this virus on the world.

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