Keep in mind that the ideal design may have little meaning for the application intended. 100,000 hour life of leds for use in flashlights for example. How many sets of batteries would you need before you approached the 100,000 hours of the bulb? Likewise in a Westy. Even if you wired them up such that the lifespan was reduced to only 1/10th of device spec, down to 10,000 hours, it would be more than enough life. If you lived in a Westy full time and used the light 5 hours every night for 5 years you would still not reach 10,000 hours. Who cares if the Westy lighting could have been made to last for 50 years of living in the Westy with a costlier and more cumbersome implementation? Even the 5 year design would be overkill for 99% of owners. Keep it practical and affordable. It is a Westy, not a manned mission to Mars. Mark |
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