I wanted to know why my LED lights weren't lasting as long as they were supposed to. The answer wasn't what I expected.

Upgrading your light bulbs is the easiest and smartest way to help reduce your home's carbon footprint. Here's the math. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based ...

A light source created by a light emitting diode (LED). For decades, LEDs have been used as indicator lights on myriad products; however, starting in the 2000s, they began to replace incandescent, ...

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Whether one of your lights went out and you only have an LED bulb on hand to replace it with, or you've decided to completely replace all of your incandescent and fluorescent lights with LED bulbs, ...

LED or filament, three-way bulbs have a special base. While a normal Edison-base bulb has the threaded part as the neutral and a center contact for the live wire, a three-way bulb has an extra hot ...

As a kid, I was inspired by the decorative lighting in my grandparents' finished basement. They had festooned the place with multicolored C9 string lights (aka old-school Christmas lights) from wall ...

Light bulb technology has made great strides in recent decades, much to the benefit of the average consumer. Not only are they more cost-effective and longer-lasting in most cases than they were ...

Along with being brighter, LED bulbs tend to use less power and have a much longer average lifespan compared to conventional halogen bulbs. Now that LED lighting technology has gotten significantly ...

Color temperature-shifting. Fading. Flickering. Flat-out failing. How many ways can an LED underperform to “10-year life” ...

If your car came from the factory with halogen or HID bulbs, you’re going to need to replace them or upgrade them down the line. Both of these bulb types lose light output over time; thus, even if ...