I have given up on Orbit LED bulbs and switched to Phillips.

What surprises me is how hot LED bulbs are just above the metal cap. Too hot to touch!

I have 1 phillips hue "flickerer" out of one house lot. Have not replaced it yet, after several years.

I've had a few cheap Chinese LED's ex ebay fail after a few months to a year, but also one Philips E27 LED bulb out of four in my office fail after a bit less than 2 years. Bunnings replaced it. 

It seems the general consensus is most people have had a few fail a couple of years ago, but things have mostly stabilised with the current batches that are being made. 

That is mostly inline with what I've experienced. 
For eg, instead of 15 or so bulbs failing over two large properties over about a year, i'm only getting about 2-4 failing in total over about the 12 month period. 

If this has been happening worldwide that is alot more plastic to break down globally that the old Glass and Metal Candescent.

Its been a really poor experience too. I emailed the Masterelectricians.org.nz but never heard back.

I replaced every bulb in the 40+ light fittings with LED bulbs about eight years ago and have had one bulb fail yet. 

I've even swapped about 8+ 'dumb' LED bulbs for Philips Hue bulbs about five years ago to provide more control, etc. Again still no failures. 

Replaced all the bulbs in the house when we moved in with the Mitre 10 special of the day, Orbit at the time. So far after 18+ months have had zero failures, zero flickering and zero complaints from the boss. Couldn't justify 10 bucks a bulb for 40+ fixtures when moving in.

Have had early failures (months rather than years of life) in Orbit and GE branded LEDs, mostly in the GU10 type.

Switched to Philips and have had no issues with them.

I brought about 20 B22 LED bulbs off Aliexpress back in 2012 (they were USD$15 ea back then, and about $50+ in NZ.  I've had virtually 100% failure rate on them but its not the LED or circuit board that dies, its just the driver inside.  So I ordered a bunch of drivers and when one fails I disassemble the bulb, unsolder it and resolder the new one in and its good again.  Takes about 10mins each.  Some bulbs have probably been replaced several times (I stopped keeping track).

Amosnz:

 

I brought about 20 B22 LED bulbs off Aliexpress back in 2012 (they were USD$15 ea back then, and about $50+ in NZ.  I've had virtually 100% failure rate on them but its not the LED or circuit board that dies, its just the driver inside.  So I ordered a bunch of drivers and when one fails I disassemble the bulb, unsolder it and resolder the new one in and its good again.  Takes about 10mins each.  Some bulbs have probably been replaced several times (I stopped keeping track).

 

Where do you source your drivers? I wouldn't mind resuscitating some of mine.

Rikkitic:

 

Amosnz:

 

I brought about 20 B22 LED bulbs off Aliexpress back in 2012 (they were USD$15 ea back then, and about $50+ in NZ.  I've had virtually 100% failure rate on them but its not the LED or circuit board that dies, its just the driver inside.  So I ordered a bunch of drivers and when one fails I disassemble the bulb, unsolder it and resolder the new one in and its good again.  Takes about 10mins each.  Some bulbs have probably been replaced several times (I stopped keeping track).

 

 

Where do you source your drivers? I wouldn't mind resuscitating some of mine.

 

Same. Watching.

russelo:

 

Rikkitic:

 

Where do you source your drivers? I wouldn't mind resuscitating some of mine.

 

 

Same. Watching.

 

Aliexpress as well but the last ones i got (Jan 2016) aren't available anymore.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1972165003.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dTQDqns

I purchased a bunch of Panasonic ones from PBTech a while back; had 2 fail (of about 15). Also did a bunch (20+) of OSRAM GU5.3 ones from Bunnings and have had a few let go over a range of time and locations (ie not isolated to a specific curcuit etc), but with these ones I took them back to Bunnings and they replaced them for me without question (I had the box and the receipt showing 25,000 hours lifespan - hard to argue)