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What is the lumen loss of led lamps?

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LEDs will typically reduce their light output throughout their life after an initial increase above the rated light output.

This degradation will usually be a near-linear reduction.

Well-made LEDs will not normally fail catastrophically, but drop in their output until they are no longer useful.

High quality LEDs are typically rated to drop to 70% of initial light output after 50,000 hours for white LEDs, and 100,000 hours for all other colours.

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