Osram Ledvance floodlight - faulty?

Rollerball · 23 Dec 2019

So I recently ordered an Osram Ledvance, one of these:

https://www.novelenergylighting.com...50w-4000k-black-pir-sensor-4058075143593.html

Fitted it today but every time I turned the electric back on the power tripped.

Triple checked my work, all was fine. Re-wired just in case but no difference.

Decided to check the fitted wiring from the light with my multimeter - every wire has a dead short!

I'm surprised that this would happen with an Osram product. Has anyone come across this before? I'll order a replacement and get a refund on the faulty one.

fluorescence · 26 Dec 2019

Even big manufacturers make mistakes and have bad batches from time to time so it's possible that it's simply faulty from the factory.

Do you have a picture of how you wired it up?

John D v2.0 · 26 Dec 2019

Sounds faulty, I'd send it back.
We got a pair of those floodlights recently and they both seem ok, but your problem could even be the flex.

Rollerball · 26 Dec 2019

fluorescence said:
Even big manufacturers make mistakes and have bad batches from time to time so it's possible that it's simply faulty from the factory.

Do you have a picture of how you wired it up?

Afraid not, but I got a replacement and wired it in exactly the same and it works perfectly.

I'm just surprised that the faulty unit had such an unexpected fault.

I also meant to add that the shorts went away after a while which leads me to think that a capacitor was faulty.

DetlefSchmitz · 26 Dec 2019

More likely the capacitor was behaving as expected, and there was no short. Still, I wasn't there, so who knows?

Rollerball · 26 Dec 2019

Each wire was shorted (Live, Earth, Neutral) - I re-checked a couple of times after disconnecting the light.

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Osram Ledvance floodlight - faulty?

Rollerball

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John D v2.0

Rollerball

DetlefSchmitz

Rollerball

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