TropTrea
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some over all comment on a few things.
We all have personal opinions on various things. Just because someone disagrees with our opinion does not them wrong or make us wrong. We all have different experiences and therefore develop our own preferences. Many things people say here I gree with 100% and others I totaly disagree with. But that does not give me or anyone elkse the right to attack them. Remember there are many way to skin the same cat.
Now on the driver quality. Saying drivers from China or anywhere else are of lower quality is sometimes true and other times very misleading. There are probably a dozen different driver designes used in China. They are all probably workable with in there own specific application. It is when we push the application beyound its purpose that we run into problems. Some Drivers are simply not designed to run for long periods of time or to last for years of operation. Yet many of the retail sellers on the end are either unaware or simply silent on there limitations. this is where the dollar to somew is more important than the long term customer satisfaction.
I have used several brands of drivers. Right now I have about a dozen meanwell drivers running for 1 to 2 years without any issues. I also had other brands that I had used with mixed results. To date I had 3 drivers fail from other brands. However in none of the cases was it 100% the drivers fault. In two cases it was salt that got into the driver and corroded parts, and in the third it was a chain reaction where cheap diodes went wild from a lack of proper cooling. While the driver continued to put out the proper current the voltage increased because of the increased resistance of the LED chain that eventual roasted the driver. Current was constant voltage rose resulting in the wattage rising beyound what the driver was designed for.
We all have personal opinions on various things. Just because someone disagrees with our opinion does not them wrong or make us wrong. We all have different experiences and therefore develop our own preferences. Many things people say here I gree with 100% and others I totaly disagree with. But that does not give me or anyone elkse the right to attack them. Remember there are many way to skin the same cat.
Now on the driver quality. Saying drivers from China or anywhere else are of lower quality is sometimes true and other times very misleading. There are probably a dozen different driver designes used in China. They are all probably workable with in there own specific application. It is when we push the application beyound its purpose that we run into problems. Some Drivers are simply not designed to run for long periods of time or to last for years of operation. Yet many of the retail sellers on the end are either unaware or simply silent on there limitations. this is where the dollar to somew is more important than the long term customer satisfaction.
I have used several brands of drivers. Right now I have about a dozen meanwell drivers running for 1 to 2 years without any issues. I also had other brands that I had used with mixed results. To date I had 3 drivers fail from other brands. However in none of the cases was it 100% the drivers fault. In two cases it was salt that got into the driver and corroded parts, and in the third it was a chain reaction where cheap diodes went wild from a lack of proper cooling. While the driver continued to put out the proper current the voltage increased because of the increased resistance of the LED chain that eventual roasted the driver. Current was constant voltage rose resulting in the wattage rising beyound what the driver was designed for.
