> Needless to say, to have any chance of achieving rated
> lifetimes LEDs need to be driven in a constant current mode
> at rated current or less. The common mass market practice of
> hard paralleling multiple LEDs is an invitaiton to vastly
> unbalanced performance and very early failures.

Ewww.  I never thought they would share current well.
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