When you're shopping for light bulbs, you might feel like they're all the same, regardless of the brand. After all, incandescent light bulbs haven't changed much since Thomas Edison patented them more ...

The LED, or light-emitting diode, itself is very unlikely to fail, and if it does, it goes out slowly over the years. Instead, it's the other electrical bits in LED bulbs that fail and cut off the ...

In my so-far nearly 30 years of writing for EDN, I’ve learned a lot about my ever-evolving audience (i.e., you), at least two aspects of which are directly relevant to this particular writeup: Or take ...

Once upon a time, buying a lightbulb meant choosing an incandescent one of between 25 and 100 watts, depending on how bright you wanted the light to be and the fixture you were putting it in. You ...

A mechanic spent hours tracking down a battery drain only to discover the real cause […] ...

Which LED light bulbs are best? Finding the best LED light bulbs for your house, office or otherwise can be more complicated than it seems. It’s easy enough to pick out a random A19 light bulb, but ...

God said, “Let there be light”—everyone knows that. But God did not specify what color light, and this would eventually prove problematic. In the age of the LED light bulb, consumers have an ...

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...