I think I read somewhere that LEDs have a much longer lifespan than regular bulbs. My experience seems to bear that out, but of course, we’ll see what happens over the coming years. Thing is, my flashlight wasn’t all that expensive to begin with anyway, so if the time comes that the bulbs start to fade, I can always just hand it over to someone else who can find a way to make some use of it, while I buy myself a replacement LED flashlight. But then again, if these LEDs do last quite a long time, who knows? They might even outlast me. Lol.
Another thing I like about the LEDs in my flashlight is that there’re 3 of them. I like that because it means that there’s some redundancy built in. For example, if I had one of my old regular bulb flashlights, if that bulb began to fail, or failed completely, then I’d have zero light.
LED light bulbs are rated for 50,000 hours. That’s about 2083 days, which is more than 5.5 years of 24 hour a day use. My incandescent bulbs seem to go out after about 3 months!