Hi all, I'm hoping to tap into the wealth of advice on here to help me solve my LED light issue.
Background:
Brought an expensive dimmerable LED light from a UK company in August – Light fitting made and shipped from Hong Kong.
Light was installed by replacing the old standard wiring with ease and worked, however tripped the circuit breaker in the consumer unit on occasion when switched on.
We came up with a system of switching on the new light before others on the ring that meant it wouldn’t trip.
Then one day it tripped again but would not reset.
With no lights and unable to reset, we called an electrician who found the fault to be the light fitting, informing me the ‘transformer’ too hot and should be returned.
The light was removed from the ring and made safe and circuit breaker replaced allowing other lights to be back in operation.
Current (no pun intended) situation:
The thought of returning the light fitting to the manufacture after 6 months of installation and no packaging is going to be difficult & potentially very expensive, if not impossible, although not attempted to do so yet.
Expensive not being used.
Way forward questions:
The light works, so is it normal for the transformer / driver to produce such heat (it does radiate quite a lot of heat)? Is it actually faulty?
After further research of similar problems online, many speak of the 'inrush current' being a cause for tripping circuit breakers in this situation and one solution is to change the circuit breaker to a type C instead of a routine type B? Would this be the way forward?
Link to light in question:
Background:
Brought an expensive dimmerable LED light from a UK company in August – Light fitting made and shipped from Hong Kong.
Light was installed by replacing the old standard wiring with ease and worked, however tripped the circuit breaker in the consumer unit on occasion when switched on.
We came up with a system of switching on the new light before others on the ring that meant it wouldn’t trip.
Then one day it tripped again but would not reset.
With no lights and unable to reset, we called an electrician who found the fault to be the light fitting, informing me the ‘transformer’ too hot and should be returned.
The light was removed from the ring and made safe and circuit breaker replaced allowing other lights to be back in operation.
Current (no pun intended) situation:
The thought of returning the light fitting to the manufacture after 6 months of installation and no packaging is going to be difficult & potentially very expensive, if not impossible, although not attempted to do so yet.
Expensive not being used.
Way forward questions:
The light works, so is it normal for the transformer / driver to produce such heat (it does radiate quite a lot of heat)? Is it actually faulty?
After further research of similar problems online, many speak of the 'inrush current' being a cause for tripping circuit breakers in this situation and one solution is to change the circuit breaker to a type C instead of a routine type B? Would this be the way forward?
Link to light in question: