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Title: Tri Light folding LED lights for ceiling fixtures
Post by: Fly320s on July 23, 2019, 06:21:47 PM

Any of you tried these things?  I keep seeing an ad for this brand and Amazon has a variety of others, such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Deformable-Ceiling-Adjustable-Lighting-Activated/dp/B07BTLGHVL/ref=asc_df_B07BTLGHVL/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=266561348100&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12380686772539465831&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002451&hvtargid=pla-465512167638&psc=1

I like the idea of better lighting in my garage and this seems like a simple, cheap solution.

Title: Re: Tri Light folding LED lights for ceiling fixtures
Post by: K Frame on July 24, 2019, 07:50:08 AM

Very interesting. I've never heard of those before but man they would have been great in my Mom's basement.

Title: Re: Tri Light folding LED lights for ceiling fixtures
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2019, 09:33:38 AM

Big Clive reviewed a couple of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypiNdcDjEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuw3GsR22TA&t=425s

His takeaway is that they are okay-ish. There are serious concerns about lack of housing grounds on the metal-chassis models. A lot of gray market Chinese stuff suffers the same issue. Not a good idea for the housing to go live at mains voltage, but a screw and a bit of wire can easily solve the problem.

If you haven't seen any of his vids, he does teardowns of electronics with a penchant for cheap import knock-off stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos

Brad

Title: Re: Tri Light folding LED lights for ceiling fixtures
Post by: Fly320s on July 24, 2019, 02:39:08 PM

Quote from: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2019, 09:33:38 AM

Big Clive reviewed a couple of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypiNdcDjEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuw3GsR22TA&t=425s

His takeaway is that they are okay-ish. There are serious concerns about lack of housing grounds on the metal-chassis models. A lot of gray market Chinese stuff suffers the same issue. Not a good idea for the housing to go live at mains voltage, but a screw and a bit of wire can easily solve the problem.

If you haven't seen any of his vids, he does teardowns of electronics with a penchant for cheap import knock-off stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos

Brad

Thanks, Brad.  Good info.