[Shop-talk] LED light bulbs in garage door operators

[pethier at comcast.net]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darrell Walker" <darrellw360 at mac.com>

> Just one data point (well two, as I have two openers), several years
> ago I
> put a CF bulb in my garage door opener, as I didn't have a regular
> bulb. I
> expected it to fail quickly, but when it didn't, I replaced all of
> them (each
> opener has two). They have been going fine for at least five years.

Where do you live?  Here in Minnesota it gets too cold for CF bulbs to start reliably.


> Incandescent bulbs, even rough service, tended to
> last
> less than a year.

I must have gotten a good one, then.  It had been in there for over a decade.

At a couple of bucks a pop for rough-service bulbs, I'm sticking with them.



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