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Looking even more worse for wear... I fitted this cheap generic 150w RX7 flood back in September 2014. It only gets used now and again when extra light is needed in the back garden. Even more paint is starting to flake off and the bracket is looking very unhappy lol. Interestingly, the paint on the top side is in very good condition, maybe it's the damp that accumulates on the underside that does it in? Surprisingly the inside is still watertight. Lamp is one of those nice uni-form type Osram Powerstars in 4000k flavour. I actually quite like these floods and I've got a proper *Made in England* Siemens version which has proper powder coating in & out but that is too good to use hence why I got a cheap chinky one to put up lol. I bet if I had used that nice Siemens one, it'd still look brand new... Pic when first installed: [url]https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-98903[/url]

Looking even more worse for wear...

I fitted this cheap generic 150w RX7 flood back in September 2014.

It only gets used now and again when extra light is needed in the back garden.

Even more paint is starting to flake off and the bracket is looking very unhappy lol.
Interestingly, the paint on the top side is in very good condition, maybe it's the damp that accumulates on the underside that does it in?
Surprisingly the inside is still watertight.


Lamp is one of those nice uni-form type Osram Powerstars in 4000k flavour.

I actually quite like these floods and I've got a proper *Made in England* Siemens version which has proper powder coating in & out but that is too good to use hence why I got a cheap chinky one to put up lol.
I bet if I had used that nice Siemens one, it'd still look brand new...

Pic when first installed:
https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-98903

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Oliver   [07 Jun, 2021 at 05:02 PM]
Similar story for some of the LED lanterns / sign lights here. The paint just isn't very good. Since it's just paint, it will probably be fine for a good few years yet. Has the glass got wire through it?
Andy   [07 Jun, 2021 at 07:29 PM]
I installed a very similar but 70W light back in 2006 on the rear of the house and that has also gone a bit flaky but works fine and is still on the original lamp.
Ash   [07 Jun, 2021 at 09:22 PM]
In some its the paint flaking off whereas the metal is ok, in others the metal is corroding away into a white powder and that's what makes the paint flake
Oliver   [07 Jun, 2021 at 11:23 PM]
The "aluminium" they are made of is like tin cans lol, nothing like the old stuff that you could polish up and it lasted forever. Once the paint is gone they just rot away. I think eventually it gets so bad that water gets in and then they fail. I've seen some of the LED lanterns here suffering from flaking paint. The Reddilight LED sign lights are doing it too. The paint Simmonsigns uses for their sign lights is much better in comparison.
Ash   [08 Jun, 2021 at 09:56 PM]
The bad ones seem to be cast of something that contains Ally and other stuff (Zinc ?) and not mixed too well together. It seems to sink in water on the interface lines between the areas of different concentration of ingredients..
AngryHorse   [09 Jun, 2021 at 09:28 AM]
NVC?
FrontSideBus   [09 Jun, 2021 at 11:44 PM]
Don't recall ever seeing and branding on it...
AngryHorse   [10 Jun, 2021 at 10:40 AM]
It looks NVC with the wire in the glass, this doesn’t save the glass when it breaks unfortunately, they shatter like a windscreen, but the glass still falls out!
Ash   [10 Jun, 2021 at 11:17 PM]
Its not a wire, just a silkscreen printing of a black line
AngryHorse   [11 Jun, 2021 at 01:49 PM]
That explains why they fall out then, wonder what the point of the lines are then?

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