Friggin Modern Light Fittings

[ban-all-sheds]

Lights are made for a much larger market than just the UK, and I assume that our traditional loop-in lighting circuits are as unique as ring finals and fused plugs.

 

[pjcomp]

My pet hate with light fittings - they provide screws to screw them to the ceiling which are worse than useless, and anyway everyone has decent screws in their toolbox, but they never provide extras of the pathetic little grub screws that hold the fitting to its base, so when you drop them on the floor you have to ferret around until you find them because you've never got a spare in the toolbox that'll fit!!!

PJ

 

[ban-all-sheds]

[Moral]Get a selection of grubscrews to keep in your toolbox[/Moral]

 

[RF Lighting]

The worst ones for me are coach lanterns etc. with a round plastic base with threaded studs sticking out.

They are ok on a perfect rendered wall, but get anything even slightly uneven and you've had it.

There is never enough thread sticking out the light to fasten them up, and there's virtually no room for the wiring.

It seems to be the standard fixing for outside lights now.

Utter garbage.

 

[securespark]

My secret desire is to meet a light designer in a dark alley and beat him senseless with a wet fish - don't these people ever try installing their creations?

Can I join you and whip them with my cable rods?

You're just a pair of electrical pervs....

When's your next meeting?

 

[securespark]

There is never enough thread sticking out the light to fasten them up

There usually is, until...

anything even slightly uneven and you've had it.

...you get the fitting over the base, offer the nut up to the thread and it disappears...

ARRRGGGHHH!!!

Utter garbage.

Here, here.

ASD ones were good. Don't know if they're still around: more robust and a slide-on fit.