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Old 10-20-2010, 05:27 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R View Post
The average lifespan of an LED bulb is 60,000 hours v. 10,000 hrs for a CFL. More importantly, the LED bulb doesn't have any mercury in its composition, but the CFLs do.
...simple, don't "eat" either one (wink,wink).

...I've worked with LEDs since the early 1980's...and beta-tested the first blue LED's from Panasonic (Japan) and Cree (USA) as optical 'targets' for automated missile tracking systems:

...red LED for long wavelength and blue LED for short wavelength...the two "ends" of the optical spectrum.

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