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Re: [RFI] LED lighting

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Subject: Re: [RFI] LED lighting
From: "qrv@kd4e.com" <qrv@kd4e.com>
Reply-to: qrv@kd4e.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:45:25 -0400
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OK, I didn't know if there was a simple & cheap way to run a stress
test.

I once communicated with a Ham years ago who's company moto was
"You make it. we break it" - their business was stress testing.
What a great job!

I've observed a near-50% failure rate in outside solar LED lights,
at least in the climates of Florida and Georgia, and most have
been repaired via resoldering poor connections.

No RFI problems with the indoor LED lights I've tried so far,
just early failure of some incandescent-replacement bulbs,
which were early production very cheap models.

Stay the course ... David KD4E

> Hare, Ed W1RFI wrote:
> We haven't done any of that sort of thing, David.  It's hard enough
> to find the time to test the products we test.  Unfortunately, there
> is probably little that can be done about such QC problems. FCC is
> hard pressed to act even for blatant rules violations like the grow
> lights, though we aren't letting that bone go.  There is no way in
> the world we can approach FCC and say that there may be problems.
> Their take is that if there is the occasional failure, it should be
> addressed on a case-by-case basis.   The manufacturers aren't even
> known in some cases, and the distributors won't care because they are
> not getting enough returns to warrant any concern.



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