LumitexT has put their led strip called LumiBOX-XT in endurance test.

This article presents the endurance test results. The test has run 6000 hours.

See here the results of the 0-hours test.

Summary Measurement Data

parameter	initially	after 6000 hrs endurance	remarks
Color Temperature	5566 K	5031 K
Luminous Intensity Iv	6102 Cd	5494 Cd	Decrease of 10 %
Beam Angle	43 deg	43 deg
Power P	37.8 W	36.6 W
Power Factor	0.68	0.67	Test has been done with a power supply that was delivered with the strips.
Luminous Flux	1588 lm	1489 lm	Decrease of 6.2 %. The Illuminance decreased more with 10%. This is because the beam pattern has changed a bit; in the direction straight underneath the lamp the intensity has dropped more.
Luminous Efficacy	42 lm/W	41 lm/W
CRI_Ra	68	67
Coordinates Chromaticity Diagram	x=0.3314 and y=0.3382	x=0.3458 and y=0.3591

Test duration and test environment

The lamp went into endurance test on 25 Oct 2011 until 19 July 2012.

During this period of time the lamp has seen the following ambient temperature and ambient relative humidity.

Period Sept 2011 – Jan 2012.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2012.

April 2012 – July 2012.

July 2012 – Sept 2012.

The ambient temperature close to the lamp varied between 15-32 deg C and the relative humidity between 15-80 %.

Variation of lamp parameters

The variation of the lamp parameters during the endurance test.

See the explanation on the OliNo site for more on the test method.

The extrapolation is done with help of the illuminance measured, until the 70 % level.

Extrapolation of the illuminance.

See the explanation on the OliNo site for more explanation and the link to the ASSIST document for the method of extrapolation.

The extrapolation of this data until 70 % of illuminance is reached at about 20.000 hours.

Color change

The color change (change in color coordinates) is measured during the test period.

Change in color coordinates during the endurance test.

The color coordinates indicated with the red cross-hairs are the coordinates after 1000 burn hours. These are taken as reference. After 6000 hours the color point goes outside the 4-step McAdams ellipse.