Comment by matthewdgreen
Comment by matthewdgreen 2 days ago
Here in Baltimore the city seems to have purchased a huge batch of defective LEDs that are actually purple. It’s disturbing when you encounter one.
Comment by matthewdgreen 2 days ago
Here in Baltimore the city seems to have purchased a huge batch of defective LEDs that are actually purple. It’s disturbing when you encounter one.
Just to be clear, these are about 1-3 years old. So yes they probably weren't purple on the day they were installed, but this is a defect and not normal aging. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/136nz3b/til_...
It happened in NC, too: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/10/duke-universit...
The city employee who bought them is probably a massive Ravens fan...
Not true, they're just defective and degraded quickly, resulting in the odd color.
Nitpick: "are actually purple" makes it sound like they came out of the factory purple, but they're actually changing from white to purple over time as the phosphor coating fails.