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New LED lights reliability
OwO:
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--- Quote from: texaspyro on February 11, 2019, 06:12:56 pm ---Another story... somebody built a multi-million dollar house down the road. They installed custom, high dollar, low voltage LED lighting everywhere. A year or two later the drivers starting failing and the company that did them went out of business. They spent around $40,000 replacing all those fancy-schmancy fixtures. Moral of the story... use fixtures that have screw-in retrofit bulbs.
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No....... :palm: buy your fixtures from reputable billion $ revenue A brand fims that don't go out of business and have many engineers with lots of experience.
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.. or just do your due diligence and make sure the fixture uses generic power supplies and LED strips when you buy.
EDIT: and avoid overpriced crap. Price != quality. The two need to be judged separately, and the lowest price option that meets your quality standards should be chosen.
texaspyro:
That particular disaster was part of a "smart" home system... all those fancy pants fixtures were linked to a home control networky thingy... fixtures all had custom power/interface board. People that are too lazy to get up and flip a light switch deserve such disasters... >:D Also, the fixtures were rather butt-ugly.
Kjelt:
Yes the home network control stuff out there is rather nasty.
Most are closed systems where you need a degree to use the (unavailable for non installers) software in such a way the system is properly configured for all controllers and slave-devices.
Then when a controller fails and needs replacement an installer can spent a couple of hours reconfiguring the system, and besides the multi 100$ for the controller another multi 100$ labour is added to the final bill. Not for normal consumers, but most are good quality (Lutron, Dynalite and the sorts).
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