> > Yes, LEDs do sometimes fail short.
>
> I cant recall every replacing a failed LED or noticing a failed LED in
> any equipment. =A0The only LEDs I have know to be failed are those that
> I cruel to when I was young.

I've had a sample of 1 million +++  to observe :-).

As these have passed through small Chinese factories the chances of
people having been unkind to them is high.

NOTE: That is not a racist statement in any form. I'ts a matter of
happenstance). Some Chinese factories are about as good as you can
get. Some are very poor indeed. There are a very very large number in
the very widely spread middle.



       Russell

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