Man can't believe the way EMS is handling their communications, BIG compliments for them ! I got another E-mail from Henry at EMS about the LED's lifetime (even though I already indicated to him that I understood and was going to order anyway
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Anyway: more IR-Led info, Randy your notes seem te get confirmed here:
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By the way, lifetime of intrared LED is different from normal LED. For the
latest 6th generation normal LED (which is very expensive), the lifetime is
100,000 hours. For the best infrared LED at this moment (that's what we are
currently using), it's lifetime is around 10,000 - 20,000 hours, it's
brightness would be decreased by 20% after used for 1000 hours. Therefore,
the expected lifetime of our LED stands would be around 3-4 years, consider
the stand would works for 2 hours each day, 365 days in a year.
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Don't know about you, but I bet no-one will play 2 hours a day 365 per year. So expect about 10 years or so of normal usage from these. And if you bought two sets...well guess you can do the math
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On the other hand, DO NOT let these baby's run 24h/day !!! ALSO DO NOT POWER THEM UP TOGETHER WITH YOUR CAB'S POWER. Else they'll burn out while you're playing Pac Man and stuff..... OK we need an output to switch the LED's on and off as soon as we launch a lightgun game
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Well if the LED's eventualy stop being bright enough......replace them. I bet they got 100.000 hour lasting versions in a year or 4......