Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I replaced the failed fluorescent over the lathe in my shop with this. It throws FANTASTIC light... AMAZING light.... plenty to work by and the color of the light is ideal for doing detailed machine work as well. It actually lights the work on the mill next to the lathe adequately on its own. The unit itself weights probably 15-20% of the 2-tube incandescent that it replaced which I also appreciated since I'm ancient now. I hope it continues to throw this flavor of light for years to come. No possible way to improve on it. There's a reason though this is 4 stars. I've been a product designer and design trouble-shooter for 4 decades and I can't understate how much the mounting scheme for this bugged me. All it needed was a couple of holes in the mounting brackets for an S-hook to connect it up to the chains that are both quite possibly already dangling from the ceiling. But they have this complicated "Euro" feel gizmo that must have eaten 15% or more of their manufacturing cost. It needed a hole... merely a hole... but instead it comes with: 1. two threaded holes at each end (unnecessary mfg cost) to screw the bracket to the light and I'm frosted I had to go out to the garage to get the loctite so the screws don't back out over time and drop the thing on my lathe or me (unnecessary user work-around to ignorant design... heartbeats)... 2. A holding wire that can NOT be mounted when the brackets are in place (I could not begin to CARE what the instructions say... if the user has to read the instructions to deal with trivial/familiar tasks, the product is a FAIL). So, you get to put the unnecessary four mounting screws in TWICE because you can't mount the wire to the bracket with the bracket in place. Did I mention... design fail? The wire has an end on it that is swaged (unnecessary mfg cost)... 3. For the other end of the wire (the uphill side) you have, literally, a machine... into which the wire slides and is grasped by what is a type of mechanical diode... wire goes in... doesn't come out. It's two parts you have to assemble and both are threaded (unnecessary mfg cost and more wasted user heartbeats)... also has a spring in it and I'm guessing more that I didn't notice while I was swearing at it and the piece of cubicle meat that "designed it" as I was throwing it away. LUDICROUS unnecessary cost. and 4. A proprietary anchoring scheme to fix the machine mentioned in the previous point to the ceiling. Not extra cost but good luck finding this mount if yours breaks or you need to move it. Only way to make the mounting scheme any worse/more useless/stupid would be by adding a microprocessor with internet connectivity and an app. I just connected the light to the chains/s-hooks that were already there and threw all the stupid parts away. It cost me nothing extra over what I paid to put the light up the way an educated person would. But I refuse to fail to punish bad ideas when I have the chance... so as not to encourage even worse ideas downstream. In summary... it throws the best light of any light I have ever owned and HUGE KUDOS for nailing that. THAT is the mission. But the STUPID and degenerate mounting scheme designed to appeal to idiot brand-aware vacuous yuppies who dig that Euro-trash look, because they're supposed to..... cost this a full star. UPDATE: I ended up purchasing more of these because of the "light from God" that they throw (STILL hate the mounting machinery!). But here's what I want to add. I own a company.... I "get" that things go wrong. Nobody is fortunate enough to have every single copy of whatever they make go out the door and simply last forever. What matters is what you do when something you made turns defective after it becomes the customer's, and what I want to note here is... in my opinion, these guys are wired up right in a world where that's all but extinct. The one over my work bench in my machine shop just started blinking the other night and I just got around to calling them and describing my situation and... they JUST DID THE RIGHT THING. No pushups. No drug testing. No letters of reference from a judge. They didn't run my fingerprints. Just... did the right thing. I care about business the way the Dali Lama cares about spirituality and I'm sitting here feeling like I imagine someone feels after they witness something beautiful and rare. Goodonya guys... keep up the good work and thank you for today's beautiful moment.