Good light, fair price, very poor installation - and a strange effect

Good light, fair price, very poor installation - and a strange effect

Paul Neuhaus, ceiling light, 6xG9 / 28W, 3xG9 / 18W (household goods)

Customer Review

I bought the lamp with the words "Ships from and sold by Amazon". Delivery time Amazon typically ok packing ok, important because glass is.

Small drawback: between order and delivery the lamp is approximately 30% become cheaper. Ironically, Amazon sent me an e-mail the appropriate information. Unlucky, but contractual agreement is, therefore, also o. K, and does not flow into the evaluation.

The mounting leads me to a sharp depreciation to 2 stars. Reason: It is without any design or material even more effort much better, as I know of dozens of other lighting installations. The manufacturer would have to invest more brains, and that's what he did not do here.

1. Any installation of a ceiling lamp, in which a mounting plate plan must be attached to the ceiling, is problematic. Where carried out for supplying the Deckendruchbruch, the ceiling is very often not quite level. Result: The drive is not on the entire surface (= plan) plan. No Matter? No! Because if that's the case, no Fung free circulation is reached to the ceiling for the lamp body. The result is an unsightly gap, literally a crooked look. To avoid the need only ground flat, scratched, braced or otherwise what the ceiling in the assembly environment. Power dirt and is particularly troublesome because even unnecessary work, because: It would, as I said, without any additional effort otherwise.

2. The receiving slots of the mounting plate for the screws are quite short, so that the orientation of the plate in the desired direction is not easily achieved. Who is able to mount the disk right away exactly in the desired direction (which also means that he is able to pound with a hammer drill overhead precision holes in a concrete ceiling), comes from the short slits. What cost slits few millimeters longer, so also so clumsy people like me get this done easily? Just.

3. Lamp body prevails crowding of wires, multi-lamp luminaires in inevitable. But the connection to the built-in Luster terminal when the lamp dangling from a wire (ground) or on a makeshift attached cord from the ceiling, a very selective skill test. The Lusterkleme can not unscrew without further because the Earth terminal is connected to a metal tab with the lamp body for better accessibility also. If they get screwed and the connecting wires are finally connected, the only shifts the problem, because in the whole shaky-dangling story just then the Luster terminal must be pushed back on the sheet tab "in the depth of the wire Gewühls" and bolted. There are more amusing activities.

I manage myself in such cases, the fact that I screw in the built-Luster terminal about 10 cm long wires and this further Luster terminal. Thus, the electrical connection to lot of things easier.

4. Is the Mega Hammer "close to ceiling" mounting screws and Einrastschlitze. To the ceiling means that they have to turn to a few millimeters distance from the ceiling (previously need the lamp body in narrow "push and turn" slits to be threaded, at the same time on two opposite sides, so it's more fun.

For screws to the eyes has the most like a snail on extendable handles. Regrettably, in my eyes but the estimated 15 cm vertical distance from the skull, which is the case according to my observations in most people. This biologically determined circumstance makes it very difficult to be rotating screws to look (reminder: Man standing on a ladder, the head abuts the ceiling, his eyes are then mentioned about 15 cm deep to the bottom).

So work by feel. Ginge yes even if you have a screwdriver, the handle has less than one centimeter in diameter ("thicker" have up no space). Such screwdrivers are rather rare because since Archimedes later than we know about the blessings of the lever .... A watchmaker screwdriver could solve the problem, there would be at least 20 cm length with him and with one hand to operate. Here probably yawns a gap in the market.

Conclusion: Thus, a lamp not mounted so every day; the assembly must certainly demand a lot. But just because the glory or women machinations that konsturierten that were too comfortable or otherwise prevented from doing so, to come up with something sensible or abzuschauen other having to fret so, is not acceptable.

Therefore, only 2 points. Let learn from the manufacturer.
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Interestingly effect: After mounting the light (even without bulbs) I turned on the power. I do it for safety's sake always so, this rough test of a proper electrical connection including checking the grounding of the (metallic) lamp body (by measuring equipment) can pay off. Surprise: The lamp was a very clearly audible vibration sound of it! I changed even after the onset of one or more light bulbs (needless to say, that the light has no transformer). It flows so without bulbs not even have electricity!

Only a renewed disassembly and reassembly with the same anger, but with differently in the lamp body laid (or more precisely into stuffed) wires eliminated the vibration. Reason? I can imagine a magnetizing effect of various legal thin iron sheets. But that's just a guess.

Disappointed ... 25 1 Rank: 1/5
August 29
Unwinding pink shoe Rank: 5/5
August 15
it protects 1 Rank: 5/5
March 9
too big! 48 Rank: 3/5
December 15
very happy 190 Rank: 5/5
May 3

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