My pool light has stopped working after 1 year of operation
It was on a timer and was on for 4 hours a night.
Arent they supposed to last 10000 hours?
I dont want to pay 350.00 for a new one and tunnel 10m under the concrete and tile paving to run a new lead to the transformer.
The current one failed and does not have access to replace the unit from the power cable in the pool end,called solid fibreglass unit.
Tried to pull the existing cable but it is rock solid in its conduit.
Can I buy a incandesent light like I had in the old house for about 100.00.
and change the bulb every so often.
LED pool light has stopped working after 1 year
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Posted Thursday 22 Nov 2012 @ 9:49:22 am from IP #
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Lance
Key MasterThere's a lot of LED light fittings out there with poor thermal management, things are improving, but it is still a prob. Heat is the enemy of LEDs, and can cause them to die very early.
Of course, it may not have been the LEDs, but the driver, they often die early too due to the same cause. Lower cost drivers often have electrolytic capacitors in them which dry out with the heat and lose capacitance. Eventually, it gets to the point where the driver can't function and it either shuts down for protection, or the driver fails.
There's no way I would ever use an incandescent, sure you save some money to start, but they cost you a great deal more in accumulated running costs, not to mention the bulb replacements etc.
$350 is way too much for any LED light unless it's at least a 50 watter, you are much better off getting online and buying direct from overseas. The only issue will be the lack of aust approvals, but from what I've seen looking around, half the LED lights and fittings sold in Oz don't have approvals etc anyway, or they have fake approval stamps...
Posted Thursday 22 Nov 2012 @ 11:33:09 am from IP # -
Hi Fab,
With your LED pool light, do you know if your transformer is still working, does it run both your pump and light? If you have just a transformer for your light and its old you might want to check that first to rule that out.. To test your transformer you would need to unwire the pool cabling from it and then put something like your garden lights into it, something you can just hold up to see if the power comes through, if it does its not the transformer.
If you want to change out your LED pool light it still can be done with a waterproof heat shrink joining the 2 cables together quite easily.
Hope this helps..
Ben
Posted Wednesday 28 Nov 2012 @ 6:07:56 am from IP # -
Multimeter shows 12vAC at the cable end at the pool.
I have to buy a shrink wrap waterproof kit to fit the new light.
Hope I can get this at an electrical outlet.
I can get a replacement light on ebay from about 130.00. 550 led with remote changing colours.The pool shop quoted 450.00.
Changing colours in a pool light is fairly useless as I leave it on blue.
Who wants to swim in yellow or red water, green looks like alge.
I can get that effect by leaving the pump off for a week.
Saw the light that came with the house for 75.00 a cheap and nasty for a spec home.
I had it on a timer for five hours a night and it only lasted one year.Dont like having joins in cable underwater so I hope the shrink wrap works or at least the fuse does on the transformer.
Posted Friday 30 Nov 2012 @ 5:36:06 am from IP #
