Timeline for Is it normal/OK for LED lights to “crackle” when turned off?
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| May 26 at 1:54 | comment | added | Max | Just want to add I recently had a number of LED can lights installed (new, not retrofit, the slim ones) and they all crackle when turned off and sometimes when being turned on. I’m glad it’s not just me! | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 4:54 | comment | added | Nelson | There's nothing inside an LED that would "explode" in any meaningful way. I've had capacitors fail in front of me and those thing have a "pop" followed by some leaking sound. I've even had an alkaline battery charged in a speed charger and that "exploded" but it was more like a balloon popping and then very fast venting of gasses. No fireball and explosion. You'll need a LOT more power to explode anything since LEDs typically use almost no power compared to other devices. | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 1:42 | vote | accept | SethMMorton | ||
| Jun 28, 2020 at 17:14 | history | edited | George Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | Alaska Man | @SethMMorton They are 5 years old and have not exploded yet. ("i'm not dead yet") Heat can cause other issues like fatigue in the solder joints so it may fail eventually but i don't think it will explode. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 16:56 | history | edited | Alaska Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | SethMMorton | That had been my guess also, but I wasn’t confident it didn’t mean the light had expanded to the point of no longer being safe. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 16:55 | history | edited | Alaska Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 16:49 | history | answered | Alaska Man | CC BY-SA 4.0 |