The cheapest LED ceiling light on eBay.

I ordered another one. It diffuses very well and if you put an array of the colour changing LEDs under it the effect is quite nice, although mainly pastel as the colours mix.

Big Clive

I ordered one of these, just to see for myself, and yeah it's petty cheap. What I like is the big diffuser. I think I'm going to replace the stock LEDs with 5mm slow color changers. That might make for a neat effect.

Michael Thompson

What is it you were thinking of sending? It's often hard to say how good something will be in ling term use.

Big Clive

I did the sudden levitation thing with this one myself at first. It's bizarrely light compared to a traditional fixture.

Big Clive

I brought Innolux Jasmina lighting fixture and the driver for leds is Osram OTi DALI 35/220-240/1A0 LT2. It has build in dimmer (pulse modulation so it flickers slightly in camera, no flicker on full power). I think this lasts 32 times longer so I get my investment back! (Of course this is also lot brighter at ~3500lm)

What would I need to do if I wanted to send you an item for you to teardown? I would be shipping it directly from amazon, and I just want to know good of a product it is, since I am currently using one myself

Gosling's do a premixed canned one too... never particularly liked it.

Howard Simons

Premixed does sound a bit inefficient. The ginger beer is such a dominant flavour that you could use any dark rum in it. I just use the local supermarket's generic brand Admiral Benbow.

Big Clive

Ha. Looks pretty much identical to the cheapest LED fittings that are sold under several brand names at Australian electrical wholesalers... I'm actually installing half a dozen of them tomorrow, cheap balcony wall lights at a motel. What's amazing is that our wholesale buy price for them is under 10 bucks AUD for a 10W version with a proper terminal block/earth lug and the appropriate Standards approvals. Otherwise the construction is practically identical to the one in the video. Some versions use the lever-type clips to retain the diffuser, others just have an even simpler "twist-lock" type of arrangement. The quality of the diffuser material can vary a bit but they're always absolutely feather-light, the first time I picked one up off the shelf I nearly threw it across the room, expecting it to be much heavier.

Chris Talbot

Bundaberg Distillery sells a premixed Dark 'n' Stormy here in Australia, it's quite good but suffers from three problems: it's a very expensive way to buy rum due to the "alcopop tax" that we have on premixed drinks here, you can't mix it up to your personal taste, and it comes in little 330ml stubbies requiring far too many trips to the fridge. I should buy a bottle of Bundy and try making my own.

Chris Talbot

It was too intermittent to narrow it down.

Big Clive

Yes. The transformer is a short stroll away.

Big Clive

Did you fix it?!

Gadgetman

Yeah but...Art!

Michael Thompson

Well I hope the artist and the electrician have good public liability insurance! They'll need it for when someone inevitably gets electrocuted from one of the 400 unearthed fittings! They meet no UK or European safety standards. It would be an HSE nightmare!

Gadgetman

diffusion seems on par with the cloud and clover night lights of last year

Michael Thompson

funny you should say that, the substation for the estate is 200 yds away and it was all rebuilt 6 months ago. but it rarely changes in my experience. this filmed in Ramsey?

The diffusion seems good. With some alternate colour LED arrays inside they would be ideal as wall dots for artistic purposes or theming.

Big Clive

You must have had a new 230V transformer fitted?

Big Clive

a good 247vac at 49.99hz. we rarely get above 228 here.

Agreed, and a good point.

Michael Thompson

They have their uses. If an artist asks you to install 400 of whatever for a two week exhibition, you start to appreciate cheap crap like this.

MrTridac

...what?

Dustin

I was conflicted over this but the more I think about it the fewer reasons there are to dip this low... ever. No. Do not want. Tupperware indeed seems the more robust enclosure. Not to mention keeping that stuff fresher longer. ... what?

Michael Thompson

The only rum I drink is Black Seal and in a Dark 'n' Stormy or, on occasion, a Black 'n' Coke. The ginger beer has to be either Barritt's or Gosling's with a preference for the former. To me, it isn't a Dark 'n' Stormy made any other way.

Howard Simons

If dark rum and lime is used Howard, yes. Goslings black seal and bundsberg brewed ginger beer is my favourite combination, but have tried many in 'research' . Which rum(s) do you like?

mark barratt

Same here and best with Bermudian ingredients but I could be biased.

Howard Simons

Indeed. My favourite drink for a while.

Big Clive

I think crumpling it up was the best thing to do with this unearthed fitting!

Gadgetman

aka Dark 'n' Stormy

Howard Simons

I have actually purchased electronic devices that came in packaging that was sturdier and harder to bend than that entire lamp.. :D But I guess you get what you pay for. :D (edit for typo)

At the student accommodation I was in during the Edinburgh Fringe festival they had all the rooms fitted with expensive LED fixtures. The one in my room kept flickering from time to time as if one of the LEDs was failing.

Big Clive

Sorry but for expensive fixtures, LED or not, I want replacement parts available.

09Klr650

Pretty much the same as the driver/bare led board lights you reviewed previously with a really cheap enclosure? Honestly you would be better off buying those bare-board sets and sticking it in a Tupperware dish with lid.

09Klr650

rum and ginger beer, good man Clive :o)

mark barratt

I certainly don't mind non-reparable fixtures if they're the real (expensive) commercial fixtures which will probably last well beyond 50000 hours. But a lot of these cheap things I assume will fail sooner than some incadescent lamps!

Jamie Magin

Not only does it feel like a food tin lid, it looks like one! Repurposed tooling to further save on costs perhaps? Or someone found a pallet of food tin lids in a warehouse somewhere...