I await with trepidation the call back for LED lighting flat panels that have not lasted the expected duration that they are supposed to.

Most come with a 5 year warrantee........I, as a result specify that after one year - my time to replace these fittings, if necessary, -  will be chargeable.

We've carried out thousands of LED flat panel changeovers (From T8s or T5s) over the last few years. Its been a bit of a band wagon thing - in my case its been client driven - they've instructed me, and often I try to dissuade the change over, but with energy saving being the driving factor - very often clients are sold the dream - and I'm very sure its going to end in tears as (half?) the fittings don't last the required duration of 5 years, then those fittings will in turn have a 5 year warantee, that - again (Half?) doesn't last. Seems to be a fast way to going out of business to me...... but we'll see. 

PS: that figure of (half?) is just a complete uninformed guess on my part. Clearly the manufacturers feel that the fittings should last this long. 

As an installer I use a well known brand and pass on their garantees to the client. What else can I do? No ways do I install, on a commercial scale, some no name brand, but if I did and it came with a manufacturers guarantee, - what else can you do? It'll be interesting if the Chinese LED flat panels every get challenged in court for not lasting the duration required, and someone tries to get 2000 fittings replaced on year 2,3,4.5. 

I'm sure there's small print galore, for every brand, that means the manufacturers will put the onus on the clients to use the fittings only in a certain way, and then to prove that that's what they have been doing, before they'll replace 2000 fittings in one building for example. A court case like this will certainly come up I'm sure of it. 

I await with trepidation the call back for LED lighting flat panels that have not lasted the expected duration that they are supposed to.

Most come with a 5 year warrantee........I, as a result specify that after one year - my time to replace these fittings, if necessary, -  will be chargeable.

We've carried out thousands of LED flat panel changeovers (From T8s or T5s) over the last few years. Its been a bit of a band wagon thing - in my case its been client driven - they've instructed me, and often I try to dissuade the change over, but with energy saving being the driving factor - very often clients are sold the dream - and I'm very sure its going to end in tears as (half?) the fittings don't last the required duration of 5 years, then those fittings will in turn have a 5 year warantee, that - again (Half?) doesn't last. Seems to be a fast way to going out of business to me...... but we'll see. 

PS: that figure of (half?) is just a complete uninformed guess on my part. Clearly the manufacturers feel that the fittings should last this long. 

As an installer I use a well known brand and pass on their garantees to the client. What else can I do? No ways do I install, on a commercial scale, some no name brand, but if I did and it came with a manufacturers guarantee, - what else can you do? It'll be interesting if the Chinese LED flat panels every get challenged in court for not lasting the duration required, and someone tries to get 2000 fittings replaced on year 2,3,4.5. 

I'm sure there's small print galore, for every brand, that means the manufacturers will put the onus on the clients to use the fittings only in a certain way, and then to prove that that's what they have been doing, before they'll replace 2000 fittings in one building for example. A court case like this will certainly come up I'm sure of it.