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ossipena 2011-01-20 12:53

Re: LED (Flashlight) Durability
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by aligatro (Post 922041)
why wouldn't it last ? It's an LED, not a flash bulb like on the older phones. LED have a very long life expectancy.(7 years irc)

it depends on the cooling. and it might be that when putting leds to camera flash, cooling isn't as good as it should be when keeping leds on constantly.

but even when heating reduces 50% of life expectancy, does it really matter?

petur 2011-01-20 13:47

Re: LED (Flashlight) Durability
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ndi (Post 924527)
That is theoretically correct, but it's not how it works. A phone flash has 2 modes, flash and light. One lights up to 60 percent, continuous and the other to 120 percent for 0.4 seconds.

Thanks for clearing this up, these are the details that mattered. Case closed, move along ;)


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