I bought two 4-packs of GE Reveal HD 2850K 5W and one 4-pack of the 8W to relamp the hallway lights.  ALL of them had failed after 8 months, and some started failing after only 2 months. None of the fixtures are enclosed or recessed either, so there's no excuse for this.
I will never buy GE bulbs again.  In fact I will never buy any premium price LED bulbs again, I just buy the cheapest bulbs I can find.  I am not wasting money on that again. Absolutely enfuriating.

I’ve never had that bad luck with GE LEDs, especially the snow cone versions, the ones I had worst luck with were Great Value and EcoSmart (store brands). Never tried Sylvania. Mid range Philips seems okay (as long as it’s not the LED filament warm glow variant), though snow cone warm glows don’t seem too bad. Premium price LEDs are often better quality but are more expensive.

I just visited a house, and I’m not sure of brand but it was a bathroom light with two LEDs on the ends and an incandescent in the middle, not enclosed, all in individual glass shades, the one of the LEDs was flickering while the incandescent was going strong. They were standard snow cone LEDs I think. Absolutely infuriating! I’m guessing the next bulb to fail is the other LED.

I visited a house, and there was a light fixture, the LED bulb was strobing, one LED was working, and the middle bulb was incandescent and working. This is ridiculous!

I’ve seen so many newer LEDs fail, while older ones keep getting. I’ve seen LEDs fail, but fail before an incandescent??? Never. That just grinds my gears. Seeing an LED die before an incandescent bulb is ridiculous, and the incandescent in the fixture is GE 60W A19 so it was made before 2014, and it was made in China. The lighting wasn’t matched as the incandescent was 2800K but the LEDs were 5000K. And another thing I notice with LEDs, is that it’s common for all of them to fail at the same time in a short period if they were installed at similar times. Commonly, when one modern LEDs fail, the entire batch fails with it.

The fact that even incandescent bulbs rated at 1,000 hours are lasting longer than some LEDs in open fixtures is proof that LED quality has gone down.

The GE snow cone LEDs seem decent, and the reflectors. The bulvs were probably like cheap Walmart or Home Depot brand, but that doesn’t make it acceptable for an LED bulb to fail sooner than an incandescent.

The newest LEDs do have better phosphors, and the light quality on LED bulbs is definitely getting better as time goes on, but as the phosphors get better, the quality of the electronics seem to be getting worse. LEDs are also be advertised with shorter lifespans than before, like 10 years ago, 25,000 hours was standard, but it’s 10,000 to 15000 hours. Some of the latest and cheapest LEDs are rated for like 3,000 to 5,000 hours which is about the lifespan of a long life incandescent, but I don’t think that was it, I think those LEDs in the light were like 10,000 hour rated or something.

 Ugly stuff is coming my way !  

 Looks like it was originally a M-400 based version .

 The worst I've bought was a Feit RGB bulb . IT SUCKS !!!!  It has NO memory circuit in it so you have to set the color/Light pattern everytime you turn it on using a tiny button on the side of the neck . Accidentally dropping this P.O.S. was the best thing that ever happened to it !!

I have just decided that MARSHMELLOWS!!! are my new favourite food

Hello everyone,

As the end of fluorescent lighting approaches, we’ve started to see many fluorescent tubes—such as special-size models, very cheap no-name halophosphate types, and Panasonic branded ones like the FHF32—marked with long alphanumeric manufacturing codes like the one shown in the image.

The only common factor seems to be that they are made in China.

Does anyone know which manufacturer actually produces these?

I bought two 4-packs of GE Reveal HD 2850K 5W and one 4-pack of the 8W to relamp the hallway lights.  ALL of them had failed after 8 months, and some started failing after only 2 months. None of the fixtures are enclosed or recessed either, so there's no excuse for this.
I will never buy GE bulbs again.  In fact I will never buy any premium price LED bulbs again, I just buy the cheapest bulbs I can find.  I am not wasting money on that again. Absolutely enfuriating.

About that 589nm line seen in some lamp spectrums. 589nm of course screams Sodium!!! loudly ) So it is easy to understand we can see a marker of ever-present sodium impurity, with it's very intense resonant radiation, likely from oxide coating, as the lamps discussed here are mostly NOS.

I was looking at the old AEL website on the Wayback Machine, and found the 110 series in the 'Security Lights' section, and was wondering if anyone knows if they were used by any utilities, or towns etc..., they have a European look to them, perhaps rebaged?

https://web.archive.org/web/20061019073125/http://www.americanelectriclighting.com/Products/Family.asp?Brand=AEL&Family=Series%20110&FID=

They do have a Spanish or Italian look to them I would say…