LEDs Magazine – Lumileds ditches rogue epoxy, restarts production
First there were rogue waves, made famous by the movie A Perfect Storm and now a bigger threat looms menacingly on the horizon….duh…duh….DUH….ROGUE EPOXY! Ahhhhhhhhhh……..<author runs away screaming>. Rogue epoxy? What the heck, exactly, IS rogue epoxy? Did the epoxy refuse to wash it’s hands after using the mens room? Does it steal from the rich to give to the poor? If you read this article it will go on to say that Lumileds has concluded that a batch of epoxy used to make their TFFC LEDs (used in Luxeon Rebel and Luxeon K2 LEDs), was “contaminated”. Then they refer to the epoxy as “non-conforming” which had the potential to cause the LED dies to prematurely crack. Then they mention that this “rogue epoxy” has been replaced with “fresh supplies”. FRESH supplies…..Is anyone else getting the vibe that nobody was paying attention and the night guy grabbed that old, dented, leaky can of epoxy from 1998 that the Haz-Mat guy’s were supposed to come and collect six months ago and dumped it into the production hopper? Well whatever actually happened, that “rogue epoxy” sure turned out to be expensive. First the production stoppage, then the recall, then all new epoxy (should have done this anyway), and now a host of reliability testing on the quarantined new production before the final release at the end of February. Not to mention the unknown cost in PR.
Would have been cheaper to throw the night guy into the production hopper.
Just kidding 
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