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On 22/06/2024 17:26, Paul S Person wrote:On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:51:19 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)>
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:21:54 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)>
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>Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:>On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:10:34 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber>
<naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>People are bitching about a lack of flying cars or fusion power,>
but hardly notice the actual, incredible, crazy progress that is
happening.
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I'm talking of course about artificial illumination. (Yes, again.)
Not sexy? Too bad.
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Recently a conventional light bulb that had escaped my purge revealed
itself by dying. I replaced it with the latest generation of Philips
LED bulb that requires about 1/14 (!) as much energy for the same
light output and is specified with a lifetime of 50.000 hours, which
amounts to some 50 years of average use.
Rated, yes. And based on some sort of tests, no doubt.
Based on calculations. For example, the resistors in
the product have certain characteristics such as resistance,
tolerance, working temperature, power rating, etc. Included in that >>>> is
a lifetime rating provided by the part manufacturer when the part
is used within specifications.
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One can calculate the overall expected lifetime of a
product statistically based on that per-component data
accounting for effects that degrade the data such
as operating outside specification, etc.
The map is not the terrain.
The goal is to create a statistical certainly. Obviously
any one bulb might be defective, but the majority
of bulbs will survive for the specified period.
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>But thanks for confirming the basic bogosity of these claims.>
I did no such thing.
Actually, you did.
You confirmed that the length-of-life claims have no basis in how long
they actually last but merely in projections based on assumptions and
(have now added above ) are only true in the statistical sense -- as
opposed to the real-world sense.
The truth is that, unless everyone keeps strict records, we do not
have and never will have a true picture of how long they last under
various conditions.
It's science. Science is pretty good stuff.
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It's probably also conservative - in the sense
of under-claiming what is delivered. In the
political sense, not wasting energy is the
opposite of conservative.
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