The One Hung Low cheap LED lamp jobbie that I mentioned earlier in the thread, here are the pictures:
It has no brand marking whatsoever. My father got them from an ebay seller for only £2 each! The electrolytic caps are rated for 105C but they did not appear to have gone bang. Note the complete absence of any EMF suppression component or potting. The actual LEDs were white and they no longer work.
Yikes what a mess, especially the burned up power leads! Quite a contrast to a clean Philips build I must say. The LEDs might be Chinese as well. While at the last years Lighting Fair I've seen a lot of lights that used their own knock-off LEDs in them.
The leds are chinese
But as always, pay peanuts and get peanuts
Speaking of LED fixtures my town council decided to retrofit the previous E14 18W globes
with a 40W LED in the shape of a 20W tube ... from optiled (chinese company!)
Remote phosphor or not i don't know but they cost 80$ each and i don't really understand why they want to do so
1) My CFL's i used in the past that i did not pay peanuts for can last 2 years 24/7
2) There might be power savings but electricity isn't a few bucks/kwh ...
3) CFL's that aren't peanuts cost AT MOST $10
and i doubt the driver will be able to last more than a CFL can ... 50,000 hours?
Case in point, because everytime they swapped out the CFL
they are spending 20 bucks plus these LED's are supposedly 2 times stronger
so if they wanted that much lighting in the past they had to spend 40 bucks, 2 times of 1 year half pays for the LED
AND as expected they increased the amount we have to pay as "conservation fee", They said living in the government flats you don't have to pay the town council ... ya right, it's like living in a condominium where you also have to pay a "conservation fee"