my 2012 era cree bulbs both had the glass fall off… potentially exposing my hand to bare 120v inside the bulb. though both light still worked and were on easily switched sockets so i left them there for a while, eventually just replaced them as precaution.
the phillips led’s I replaced those (and everything else) with haven’t failed since.
Personally, I had a huge problem with CFLs rapidly burning out in the short time between incandescent and LED, but I haven’t replaced even one LED bulb.
This has been my experience as well- quality Phillips bulbs really last like crazy. I’ve never replaced one, and switched over many years ago. The cheap bulbs though? Holy cow are they garbage. Overheat and burn out very fast. Many are fire hazards with fake UL logos on them.
There are big differences in LED bulb construction. The cheap ones do things like stringing a bunch of cheap smaller LEDs in series until 120V is consumed, like 1960s Christmas light strings. This causes uneven current consumption, and the weakest link kills the bulb pretty fast. The good ones use small numbers of actual high power LEDs in parallel with proper power regulation and heat sinking. This may not stay true, but right now you absolutely get what you pay for in LED lighting.
Same here, anecdotally. I have 4 Kobi 100watt equivalent that followed me from my old place, and have replaced all bulbs with LEDs at the new place about 3 years ago with, mostly, Philips Warm Glow.
After buying whatever was cheap at Homme d’Pot, I’ve started buying Cree bulbs on Consumer Report’s recommendation. Too soon to say anything about them myself.
In 5 years in this house, which has about 35 bulbs, I’d say I’ve replaced 7 LEDs, which I consider excessive.
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