How much load can a lighting circuit take?

[Mottie]

You are really lucky. I have worked in many houses where the LEDs failed faster than a halogen would have failed. That said, they were probably cheap bulbs.

The 8 ceiling led's were just direct replacements for the GU10 bulbs, been in for about 5 years now. The cabinet bulbs were 10w G4 bulbs and they were replaced with these:

I bought one lot in 2022 and another lot to add to my new kitchen in 2024. 12 strips all together.

 

[morqthana]

Same here. Mine is a very large house with a good few multi-bulb/lamp fittings - which I think tots up to a total of around 80 lamps/bulbs. 'Back then', replacing dead one was a tedious weekly, if not daily, task and, like you, I used to buy large batches of them every 2-3 months. Now that everything is LED, I buy a handful every year or two!

I bought a large batch of incandescent bulbs when they were being withdrawn from sale. Still got most of them, and don't need any of them. Box is about the size of a tea chest, if not bigger, and it's full.

I've got light fittings I could put them in, but I've got used to the long life and not having the circuit trip when one pops.

Oh well.

 

[JohnW2]

You are really lucky. I have worked in many houses where the LEDs failed faster than a halogen would have failed.

I think it's probably more likely that the owners of those houses you worked in were 'very unlucky' (or were using fittings which 'abused' the LEDs )'.. Although there are some misunderstandings, leading to some over-optimistic expectations of the lifespan of LEDs, I think it's the experience of nearly everyone that, 'on average' they last for an awful lot loner than incandescents.

That said, they were probably cheap bulbs.

When I started changing to LEDs, I experimented with the whole range available, from 'cheap and nasty unbranded' to 'expensive with reputable branding'. In terms of lifespan, the cheapest I could find did at least as well as the expensive branded ones. In fact, the worst of all, in my experience, were the (expensive) Phillips ones