Quote Originally Posted by Jason Roehl View Post
The LEDs are probably lasting just fine...it's the cheap circuitry driving them that is likely the problem.
Bingo! And if the LEDs have failed (which is very likely), it's because the drive circuitry wasn't designed to properly drive them.

Today's manufacturing is counting on the hype of LEDs to carry them, like putting a Ferrari engine in a Yugo's chassis... it'll work, but eventually that engine is just going to overwhelm the rest of the system and the entire thing breaks down. Is a Ferrari engine poorly made? Certainly not! But if the support isn't there, even the best items will eventually fail.