you may say that, but honestly, do the math.
1 foot EB3 strip
2.54 x 28 =71cm2
13.4W
0.18W per square cm.
1818 cititzen
2.8x2.8 =7,84cm2
35W
4.4W per square cm.
pretty much all people here buy a light which is overpowered for their needs and none runs it a 100% 4y long without pause.
again 4y is a long time, pretty much all here have replaced their lamp within this timespan anyway.
but yea, the manufactorers could do better points have been mentioned here.
the ebs you quoted are nothing like what mars or any other bar type light manufacturers use. they cram those diodes so close to each other its running almost as dense as cobs.
i think 4 years is a decent amount of time not arguing that but everyone changes their light in 4 years is another speculation imo. maybe they wouldnt if they didn’t see significant par loss.
can you do the same math with a mars pcb for example? what 100cm long about 10cm wide? running at 100w? still a shit ton of heat. nothing like and underdriven eb strip.
in the original video migro runs the lights for 6K hours to reach at that conclusion. so its not a years based experiment. you can reach 6K hours in a year with veg and flower with photos, if growing autos faster. and the lights he used are mostly cobs with big chunky spikey heatsinks. but doesnt matter much, he sees 40-50C on those heatsinks and i definitely believe if i were to push my lumatek 100% i’d see similar temps and i’m pretty sure mars hydro runs even hotter because the diode density is incomparable to my lumatek etc.
4 years to q80 may be an overestimation of what it’ll produce over the years for most lights.
somehow somewhere along the way companies started pushing these light without proper heatsinks and thermal management because people thought hey these are not dense as cobs so they dont need much cooling i guess but your underdriven eb strips does not have much in common with what these companies produce