There has been many recalls of HD light fixtures. Check your models out at
the store for recall info.


"Peter" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:46:17 -0500, "Tim Fischer"
wrote:

How exactly are the fixtures failing? I've bought plenty of Hampton Bay
(HD) fixtures and had absolutely no problems.

Not much to a light fixture, really...

-Tim


The Flourescent fixture (kitchen) only lights two bulbs out of four
and these are only half bright.

Foyer fixture is a 4 bulb fixture only one outlet lights....all the
bulbs
were tested and worked in another fixture.

Dinette Fixture was a hanging "Tiffany candle style). One of the
bulb holders doesn't light and the rest of the lights dim and brighten
randomly...high circuit imedance.

I won't even bother going into the motion detector lights except to
say that one is completely dead...and the others are totally flakey.

Another poster asked..."if they were installed correctly"... well not
really much to hooking up a neutral, wall switched black , and
connected ground....
( I haven't really checked the internal wiring of the fixtures to insure
that they were manufactured correctly....). And the house wiring has
been
checked for polarity, voltage levels and grounds

But just to double check, I made a pigtail out of an electrical cord
and checked each fixture by itself, out of the electrical circuit.
Each fixture tests out as defective.

I thing two were Hampton Bays.... one was another brand. All
came from Home Depot...

anecdotal story.... I also installed an outdoor fixture at a friends
house,
picked the fixture up at Home Depot...another Hampton Bay.....I also
needed to put a fixture block up and purchased longer electrical screws
so everything would fit perfectly. (note electrical screw sizes used to
be 10/32's"

Well, put thre fixture up and when it came time to use the caps nuts to
tighten
everything in I found that the thread sizes for these fixtures were
METRIC
and Home Depot does not carry longer size metric screw lengths. Course,
maybe
a monday morning quarterback hearing this story would have said "Well,
you should have know they were metric." But when I brought the fixture
back to
the store....every salesperson, including the one's who worked as
electricians say
"it wasn't possible, they had to be 10/32's" and they were only
convinced after I
demonstrated that it was indeed a metric thread".

Anyway, life is too short to deal with this. I'm just looking for
reputable, reliable
brand names that are not from Home Depot or Lowe's or Wal Mart.

Thanks !!

Peter