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Andrew Mawson was thinking very hard :
In fairness TLC have been brilliant replacing them, and delivering
the
replacement usually on the same day that I report the fault.

In the location that it is, it isn't triggered very often at all.
I've
set the field of view to be effectively just the concrete apron in
front
of the tractor shed, and it's only the odd passing fox or badger that
sets it off at night. My usage is usually daytime when it is
inhibited
anyway.

A great deal of imported electrical items, are designed for 220/230v
and
the soon fail on the UK's more usual 240v.

So far, you have only suggested they fail. Is it the lamps failing or
the
PIR?

Impossible to tell. The unit doesn't function and is not openable !


Send a dead one to big Clive.
http://bigclive.com

Tim



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Dead ones have to go back in order to get a replacement !


But if replacement is such a PITA as you suggest, surely worth a
punt to find out *why* these units are failing?

Tim


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Well lets see:

Option 1 - destroy unit, have to fork out for something similar out of my
own pocket now (These are now £95 each, ) What ever I choose may be just as
unreliable and still have to climb the big long ladder to change.

Option 2 - continue as is for the remaining two years of the guarantee
possibly changing a further twelve floodlights if they carry on failing at
the same rate

Either way the ladder is probably going to have to be climbed anyway, and by
the time the two yeas is up I'll be 71 so possibly sending someone else up
there anyway !

Andrew




£95 a pop does rather change things. ;-) Didn't realise that they
were posh ones.

Tim
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