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Oddly cheap emergency lighting

me1899
Hi All


I was wondering if anyone had come across the below:

https://www.lighthubdirect.com/collections/led-bulkhead-lights/products/14w-led-emergency-maintained-non-maintained-round-dome-bulkhead-light-3hr-white-ip65


Basically a 14W bulkhead with LiFePo4 battery, 3 hrs, 1000 lumens with 300 lumens in emergency mode - all for 30 quid.


That does not sound right to me cost wise - has anyone used this brand? if it is that cheap there must be something funny. I am going to have a read of BS EN 60598 to see if I can figure out anything, but just seems weird.


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    I've been caught out by the switched type of Emergency lighting recently. The type that switches on and off with the normal lighting but comes on if there is a power cut.

    The old way of doing this was to have a switched and an unswitched live (and neutral).

    Now some fittings do the switching at low voltage so you need an unswitched live (and neutral) and a LV pair, one extra wire. It is bad enough being caught out by this on a new install but for a replacement you have to take the fitting back and ask for the other type - but the trouble is that the outside of the box doesn't tell you which type it is - unless things have changed since I last bought one.
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    I've been caught out by the switched type of Emergency lighting recently. The type that switches on and off with the normal lighting but comes on if there is a power cut.

    The old way of doing this was to have a switched and an unswitched live (and neutral).

    Now some fittings do the switching at low voltage so you need an unswitched live (and neutral) and a LV pair, one extra wire. It is bad enough being caught out by this on a new install but for a replacement you have to take the fitting back and ask for the other type - but the trouble is that the outside of the box doesn't tell you which type it is - unless things have changed since I last bought one.
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