{"id":4291,"date":"2022-04-28T04:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bringuptodate.com\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:26:34","slug":"do-led-lights-get-hot-enough-to-catch-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bringuptodate.com\/do-led-lights-get-hot-enough-to-catch-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Do LED Lights Get Hot Enough to Catch Fire? Let\u2019s Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Helen, my mother-in-law, visited me last week. While she loved the transformation of the house with LED Lights, she was not so convinced with planting LED Lights in the kids’ room. She kept on insisting that it will catch fire once it’s hot, these modern day Smart Lighting can’t be trusted and to keep kids away from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It did put me off, honestly ! I had invested quite a bit of effort in setting up the kids’ room. And this episode paved the way for this article’s topic – “Can LEDs catch fire?” <\/strong>Are they unsafe to use?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The short answer to “can LED lights catch on fire” is NO. They don’t become hot enough and pretty safe to use.<\/strong> In rare cases where they do become hot, they will dim out rather than melt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There was an era when incandescent bulbs and halogens were used. They have been ubiquitously replaced by LEDs. Today, LEDs are the first choice over the traditional bulbs because they are<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the list can go on…! <\/p>\n\n\n\n