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The flats where I live have a Terraneo intercom system at the front door. When somebody buzzes my flat, the button sometimes gets stuck down, so the buzzer sounds continuously inside my flat until I go outside and give the front panel a little knock to release the button. It seems to happen more...

Oh yeah I didn't mean this about the entire cupboard – I just meant on the bottom shelf near the hot spot, where I think it does apply (for instance temperatures over 21°C can permanently taint the flavor of wine so 30°C is an absolute disaster). Sorry, I probably shouldn't have used the phrase...

Photos below of the light in its housing and out of its housing. It is definitely this product.

Oh yeah this is definitely the case. But there's still a patch of cupboard that's so hot as to be ruled out for some uses – I just thought with LEDs that shouldn't be happening. Why might I need to replace the power supply? I don't think the problem can be that the transformer is incompatible...

I tried holding the kitchen thermometer to the glass of the light itself. It peaked at 37.7°C – hot, but not too hot to touch. I'm afraid I don't know where the power supply is. However, I don't think it can be anything other than the light fittings producing the heat, because it's the same...

Well I didn't physically watch them being unpacked and installed but they are listed as a specific model of Sycamore LED on all the paperwork.

Very reassuring that other people agree this isn't how it should be. Does anyone have any advice about what I should do next? As I said, the kitchen company's response was "If we installed different lights they'd be just as hot." Is there a way I can prove that I'm right about this?

Yeah it's just one LED per cabinet. It takes about 25 minutes after turning the lights on for the thermometer to read 30+°C.

Thanks for your reply. They're 12 volt with a separate power converter. And the fittings don't go all the way through the base, they're more like A in your diagram – the heat is coming through the wood.

Sorry, this isn't strictly DIY but I thought people here might know. I recently had a new kitchen installed. The cabinets have 2.6W Sycamore LEDs recessed into the undersides to cast light over the worktop. However, I soon noticed that the insides of the cabinets were getting pretty hot when the...

Recently I was painting some walls and, although I did put drop cloths down, I still managed to track a bit of white paint on to the floor, which is an oil-finished engineered wood. I tried to clean it up while it was still wet, but afterwards I realised I'd spread some of it around. I now have...