Hahaha. Proof that the worst thing you can ever do the the reliability of a system is brag about how reliable it is bit me. I was saying in this thread how the six-plus-year-old LED inserts I installed in the kitchen were all going strong; one of them (out of seven) decided to flake out this week. Presumably something in the power supply has succumbed to a dry solder joint or bad capacitor, because it started flickering off at random. (When it's on it's a full normal brightness/appearance.) Maybe I'll try prying it open and seeing what makes it tick, although it's not super obvious how to get into it.
It wasn't a big deal because I still had an extra lying around. (They don't come in packs of seven, of course.) Took about a minute and half to replace it once I remembered how to unlock the spring dinguses that hold them into the can. The "new" one is just a *slightly* different color and *slightly* brighter than its companions with six years worth of mileage on them, the difference is actually less than I thought it would be. I guess the question now is whether the one that went bad was a fluke or if the other six will all start dropping like flies. Still, though, they're doing a heck of a lot better than the CFLs they replaced.
