LED fail.

[FrontSideBus]

For as long as I can remember, a house near me has had a 16w 2D fitting on the side of their house lighting up the hard standing between theirs and the next house.

Tonight when I went past on the way to work, I noticed that somebody has replaced it with a bog standard GLS type bulkhead fitting with an LED lamp in it... but get this lol, they have mounted it with the lamp holder at the bottom and the LED lamp they have used is one of the retrofit GLS ones where only the top half of the lamp gives out any useful light so most of the light is going into the sky lol.

Lol you can imagine how shit the area is lit now...

[Kev]

It’s the modern way sadly. Same thing in one of the schools I used to look after where the mercury and sox lanterns were replaced with shitty lanterns designed for GLS with Led’s like that in them.

[Slyspark]

See it all the time. You'd think people would notice how shit their lighting got and ask for the old ones to be put back...

[Ash]

No, they ask for more LED lighting to be installed to make up for the difference

[Oliver]

I go somewhere where the 400w Thorn Sonpak was replaced with a tiny 10 or 20w led flood. For scale, it’s not much taller than the wall mount photocell next to it. It was installed in the same place and is very high at about 20ft. As you might have guessed, the output is so low it might as well not be there.

[FrontSideBus]

It probably wouldn’t have been that bad if they’d mounted it with the lamp holder at the top so the lamp shines down.
Still poor replacement of a 2D though.

[Slyspark]

It's a shame lighting has come to this....

[FrontSideBus]

Yeah, what happened to lighting engineers making luminaires which had well designed optical systems which maximise the beam control and yet reduce glare to minimum? Now it’s just let’s wack a diode chip on the front in full view with fuck all consideration to controlling the light output and who gives a shit about glare?

[Slyspark]

Sad isn't it! All it seems to be about now is how much they can con you into paying for something that's had sod all spent on it's design and manufacture.

[Ash]

Not only that, im stunned at how people believe that something that lacks any optics whatsoever is better than things with elaborately shaped reflectors and diffusers that actually get light where it is supposed to go