We have a haunted LED flood light in the house.
Seriously…. this light was installed in our kitchen, and it does weird things when we turn the power on and off. I took it down to the workbench to check it out. Have a look at the video below:
Notice how it sort of wobbles and blinks when I plug it in. But that isn’t the strange bit. The strange bit is that it refuses to go off after I unplug it. It even gets brighter…. as if it is struggling not to go out. Cue the Twilight Zone® theme.
Go ahead. Watch it again!
Spooky, hunh?
But that isn’t the worst of it. Check out the box.
Notice the estimated life of the bulb. Now check out the bulb itself.
Yes. I am that crazy. When I install a light bulb, I write the date that I installed it on the base. I just like to see how long these things actually last.
Here is a closer view in case you can’t see the date in the photo above.
I installed that bulb on August 22 of 2019, less than a year ago. The life of the bulb is actually 41 days short of a year. So the bulb has lasted 324 days. Now, 22 years is 8030 days, so the bulb lasted 4.03486924035 % of its estimated life.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I know what you’re thinking… “Strange person who would blog about a light bulb”.
But then…. you’re reading this…. know what I mean. Just sayin’.