Hgrace
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Having been in the electrical industry for over 40 years and watching technology grow to LED's I will make this comment.
Adding resistors to any lighting installation has to effects on the system.
First, resistors add load and therefore may negate any potential power savings and may in fact increase the load.
Second, resistors by design, resist and consume electrical energy by transforming it to heat in nearly all cases. This can become an issue if a resistor fails as it is like like to damage the wiring if failure occurs.
Any LED retrofit I will use will have to be an all in one design with no additional devices. It took a while in the 120 volt electrical industry and boy , have I see a lot of terrible LEDs and their failures and characteristics. I will be patient and wait for engineering to meet the market and costs settle to normalize as well.
Adding resistors to any lighting installation has to effects on the system.
First, resistors add load and therefore may negate any potential power savings and may in fact increase the load.
Second, resistors by design, resist and consume electrical energy by transforming it to heat in nearly all cases. This can become an issue if a resistor fails as it is like like to damage the wiring if failure occurs.
Any LED retrofit I will use will have to be an all in one design with no additional devices. It took a while in the 120 volt electrical industry and boy , have I see a lot of terrible LEDs and their failures and characteristics. I will be patient and wait for engineering to meet the market and costs settle to normalize as well.
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