Lights of America LED Flood

I received a morning phone call from home last week while I was at work.

 

My wife said my sons foot was bleeding.  He stepped on broken glass and she could not determine where the glass had come from.

 

The mystery was solved that evening when we looked up at the ceiling.  The light was missing its glass.  It had dropped and broken on the floor.

 

I had installed 6 of these flood lights.  Had been using them for over 4 months.

 

So far half of these lights have lost their glass.

 

I am contacting Costco and the manufacturer today to file a complaint.

 

 

Bulbs are expensive. Light emitted is very green. Packaging says can be used as outdoor floodlight, but bulb does not emit enough light to be effective. Will be replacing with incandescents and I will save these for use at Halloween.

Bought one from Costco to try out, this spring. 20% of the leds are now out and moisture is collecting inside the glass envelope;  I expect the rest of the leds will soon fail, Another piece of Chinese junk. Just received a letter from Lights of America directing us to retun it to Costco if we are dissatisfied with the product. Lights of America has determined the actual life of the product is less than stated on the package. 

I purchased one of these 'Lights of America' recessed lighting LED light bulbs yesterday at my local Costco. They do not work in dimmer switch circuit so we installed it in the bathroom. It's not very bright but it works there just fine- mostly because the light is quite blue shifted. Our bathroom is done in a lot of dark earth tones so the blue shifted light from this bulb actually is an accent in this situation. It would not be appropriate for most other lighting situations that I can think of. So far as I know only CREE makes a dimmable bright 'soft white' LED and I don't know how or where to get those.