• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

More DIY....food

My experience with LEDs - borne largely from dealing with constantly failing ceiling spots in various houses we've lived in:

Don't buy sealed units where the bulb can't be replaced. Or if you do buy an extra 30% of spares as when they fail the fitting will be obsolete. This has happened with several in current house that were provided by pro electrician. Super annoying as the manufacturer had a tie to one wholesaler.

Buy reliable brands, not cheapie from China. For LED bulbs I find Philips to be very reliable and worth a small premium. The tradie guys at the wholesaler always say that heat destroys the control units and some brands are notorious for this.

Try to balance the wiring load. This seems to make a difference. Illogical. But in our former kitchen there are two dozen spots on two circuits. One wired in series, one radial (god knows why they are different). All identical fittings. Serials fail, radials don't.

As an aside, LED floodlights, even expensive ones, are prone to failure. Two have failed at current property and are under 5 years old. The ones at work never lasted more than 3 years. On the other hand I fitted outdoor sodium floodlights to illuminate a very nice barn with stables at the farm. This was 30 years ago and everything is still working as new. No replacements of anything.
 
I've been replacing compact florescent bulbs with LEDs for about 5 years now as the former die off. I've had no failures of LEDs yet. (The CFL's typically last 8-12 years.)

Kirk
 
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