On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:48:16 -0400, wrote:



Just a rant ... a long one - sorry folks
but wondering if anyone else has any bad or good
experience with this type of lighting ?
And - buyer beware if you're outfitting your whole shop !

Less than a year ago, I installed a 4 ft. LED
self-contained plug-in light fixture in my back-basement
storage room. It was a very very decent looking item from
Lee Valley made by Armacost and more than double-the-cost
of the common cheapo units.
It failed last weekend ... after ~ 5 hours of ON time ! if that.
... so much for the 10's-of-thousands-of-hours of LED bulb life !

I looked-it-over closely - checked the 120 volt cord & connectors -
everything was A-OK ; I pulled off the end-caps to check internal
wiring connectors A-OK ; pulled the ON-OFF switch ;
- everything was A-OK.

Guess what ? - Lee Valley doesn't carry them any more ;
Armacost says that it's discontinued and that it was probably
an internal power supply failure ... gee thanks !

The polite refund from Lee Valley meant that I was not out-of-pocket -
but it was little consolation - now I need to go shopping for
another fixture... again looking at the cheapo's that I avoided !

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop...?item=99W7681W

Plus - I'm hoping that the replacement fixture can be matched to
the custom-made little 45 degree corner-mounting-blocks
that I made for the original fixtures ...

Geeeze ! thanks for listening :-)

John T.



Go to banggood.com and look for an LED power supply in whatever volts
and amps the light needs. Yes, they're Chinese made. Yes, some of
them are junk.

However, a $7 power supply from there might resurrect your light
fixture and you might even find one that's close to the same size.

I have 3 under-cabinet LED fixtures that have been in place for maybe
10 years and still work fine. I've also had "stuff" that didn't
survive the first week. Some is from the "make it cheaper" mentality
but sometimes there are glitches in what we think are well made
products - couple of flaws in the 737-800 that took at least two
crashes and several deaths to find a solution beyond "have the other
pilot guard the throttles during landing so autothrottle doesn't take
engine one all the way to idle' xteen million for an aircraft and it
took them a year ot two to find and fix that problem. One crash and
multiple deaths when the pilot guarding the throttles had a heart
attack and was possibly dead before the plane went into its death
spiral.