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There are companies making automotive and industrial led lighting that is super high quality. It's just that trucklite and apparently grote are absolute amateurs at the game. Yet they seem to have excellent salesmen who specialize in reeling in dod contracts.
I agree that the heatsink being closed in can't be great for these lights. However, I don't think that's the direct cause.
The more I research led failures the more I realize these lights don't fit the template for diodes burning out due to overheating.
They act more like a solder joint...
Yall are both wrong. Led's emit almost no infrared light. The diodes themselves get very hot. Look at any led light bar and the housing is one giant heatsink. In fact when building led fixtures you bond the led itself to the heatsink with thermal adhesive. Depending on the driver type they...
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