Over Priced Cheap Below Standard...
Cheap Bulbs for cheap bucks
I thought I was the only one who had issues with Jenco bulbs, there seem to be many who agree with this. Out of the 1st ten pack I bought for my pot lights, 3 went bad in about 2 months. I got 8 more in the following week from them including warranty replacement and some have already started flickering and 4 of them have gone bad. Two I have yet to open so out of the 16 used, 7 have gone bad. That's a 43% failure rate on a 3 year warranty bulb (JC-DE26-5TC6L) in a matter of months. Most have gone bad with reduced output and some flash at reduced output. Some don't go out but randomly and quickly change brightness - sort of a strobe type of effect. One was flashing and I actually hear it pop inside and it went dark with black burn marks. Unfortunately this is the sort of thing that happens when they try to bring down the cost of LED bulbs. Heat sinking (cooling) is one of the areas and cheap quality drivers and chips is another that manufacturers skimp on to bring costs down.
Jenco being in business for last 6 years and with 10 franchises including a super store warehouse is perhaps the only business that I have known to sell such cheap trash year after year without any improvement in standard or quality. This is unacceptable and ridiculous. Worse still these bulbs have energy star marking on their boxes with no energy star logo or marking on the same bulbs?? Finally ended up replacing them with 4 pack energy star bulbs from Costco and Dukes Electrical at much lowered cost and with no issues whatsoever so far. DONT BUY THEIR WARRANTY GUYS. ITS OF NO PURPOSE AND DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.
Cheap Bulbs for cheap bucks
I thought I was the only one who had issues with Jenco bulbs, there seem to be many who agree with this. Out of the 1st ten pack I bought for my pot lights, 3 went bad in about 2 months. I got 8 more in the following week from them including warranty replacement and some have already started flickering and 4 of them have gone bad. Two I have yet to open so out of the 16 used, 7 have gone bad. That's a 43% failure rate on a 3 year warranty bulb (JC-DE26-5TC6L) in a matter of months. Most have gone bad with reduced output and some flash at reduced output. Some don't go out but randomly and quickly change brightness - sort of a strobe type of effect. One was flashing and I actually hear it pop inside and it went dark with black burn marks. Unfortunately this is the sort of thing that happens when they try to bring down the cost of LED bulbs. Heat sinking (cooling) is one of the areas and cheap quality drivers and chips is another that...