| Problem Found with Commercial Electric LED PAR Retrofit
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TheMGPremium
join:2007-09-04
Canada
kudos:1 | My guess is that it was "hanging on by a thread" and over the time the thermal cycles and vibrations eventually caused it to let go.
Also, this has been said on this forum many times and I'll say it again: Commercial Electric products are terrible quality. |
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| Upon closer inspection, it looks to be a pop rivet that wasn't properly formed. I'm guessing the twist of the wire, pulling on the rivet for months. This is one of those rare cases where installation stresses were just shy of the threshold of breakage.
Otherwise, the unit is fine. I replaced the rivet with a 4-40 screw and washers and tested the lamp.
Needless to say, I'm not happy about the day spent building scaffolding just to reach the lamp fixture under a soffet 20' up. |
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 Jack_in_VAPremium
join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA
kudos:1 | A ladder would have been a whole lot faster to just reach 20 ft. Lights mounted high are always a pain to reach. |
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| said by Jack_in_VA:A ladder would have been a whole lot faster to just reach 20 ft. Lights mounted high are always a pain to reach.
Not for someone my age with Parkinson's. I needed two hands to work on this. First had to cut away the rubber caulk around the bezel. And it's a deep overhang, so the lamp is a few feet away from the ext wall. This was the safest way for me to do this. |
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