On 06/01/2010 02:38 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
There must be a way to engineer it so that the fixture
to which the
LED "bulb" is attached acts as a heatsink for the LEDs.
Certainly
that's how it's done. But when you screw it into an enclosed
base-up fixture, to where is that heatsink going to dissipate the heat?
That's a fundamental problem with both CFLs and LEDs, leading to
significantly shortened lifetimes for both, and no one has a good
solution yet.
Eric