6" pendants

[wbmkk]

What is the difference between these, some are about £1.40 each and others are up to £6.

Is it worth paying extra ?

What are the 'good' brands ?

ALSO

5 ' fluorescent fittings ...

Is it best to get one for a DIY store, or from an electrical suplier ?

thanks

 

[Taylortwocities]

They are much of a muchness.

However the cheap ones i recently got from screwfix seem now to be made of a more flexible plastic than the previous type. This makes the covers very difficult to unscrew.

 

[dhutch]

On the flipside, the prewired MK ones have a rigid clear back section and a thermoset cover, are the same shape now as they where 20 years go, and come with a precut lenght of earth sleave and brown oversleave.

Its a case of pays your money. Mainly for rose fittings I would be lead by price, but some are truely awful to the point of making even one-off fitting a pain.


Daniel

 

[17thman]

I love GET pendant sets, they come with the terminals 3/4 unscrewed, its wonderful when fitting loads of them.

 

[securespark]

On the flipside, the prewired MK ones have a rigid clear back section and a thermoset cover, are the same shape now as they where 20 years go, and come with a precut lenght of earth sleave and brown oversleave.

Its a case of pays your money. Mainly for rose fittings I would be lead by price, but some are truely awful to the point of making even one-off fitting a pain.


Daniel

Talking of paying your money, the "new" MK pendants are dirt cheap.

The old ones were MEM kit, lovely.

But the new ones are exact copies of ones I used to buy in Denmans BASICS range for 88p each. The only difference is that the clear backplates have the MK logo screen-printed onto them.

And, as you say, they come in a lovely MK bag with a couple of inches of sleeving thrown in.

What I look for in a pendant is a quality T2 lampholder with a sturdy metal retaining ring for the lamp. Some seem to be made of tinfoil...

These seem OK, for 99p.

25 year guarantee as well. Wonder if that includes the lampholder?

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/CM2808.html

 

[sparkwright]

There is one budget line of pendants I used fairly recently which were terrible.

The lampholder was somehow pre-assembled in a push and click assembly. I don't mean like those so-called safety ones - the shroud and top cover unscrewed like a traditional lampholder.

I was called back as one of the lights appeared to be 'chewing up lightbulbs'.

I unscrewed the top of the lampholder without removing the big glass shade to check the terminals were tight, when, you guessed it, CRASH.

The glass shade and the bottom half of the lampholder were all in tiny pieces on the floor. The lampholder was only held together by two plastic, flimsy tabs that clicked in and out.

 

[wbmkk]

Thank you for all the replies.

I eventually went with CEF 'own brand' pendants, as I was there buying fluorescent fittings too.

 

[securespark]

Wow, you must be rich!

 

[Adam_151]

I refuse to use CEF unless the world is ending now, etc. Since our invoicing guy told me they charged us as £15 for a battery only smoke detector when I was called to a maintenance visit for a smoke detector playing up and it turned out to be a battery only unit (interlinked one of the stairwell and additional batteyr only units in the rooms off it) that they'd already changed the battery in it, and CEF were only wholesaler around that stocked them!. When the same happened down the line in another room of the same residential facility I went to screwfix near by and got them far cheaper!

 

[ebee]

"I refuse to use CEF unless the world is ending now"

I still would not use them even then!