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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 16:01:35 :
Last week I bought 5 fluorescent shop light fixtures, the new kind with the T-8 bulbs and solid-state ballasts. $30 apiece; not the $10 cheapies. Of the 5, one came on briefly and then went out, due to a bad ballast. Another shorted out because of an improperly-installed switch. 3 were good. I combined the two bad ones into one good one, and took the residue back to the store. Needed 3 more, so got 4 fixtures of the same kind. Went to put them in today and NONE of them works. Have not tried to troubleshoot them, I'm so disgusted. I guess I'll have to take them all out of their boxes and test them right there in the store.
This phenomenon of things being shipped without ever even being tested is something I never saw until we started getting all the Chinese junk. A while ago I bought a "Heier" dehumidifier that didn't work because two wires inside it had never been hooked up. I hooked them up, and then it vibrated like crazy because the screws that hold the fan in place had never been tightened down. Now I get light fixtures where 6 out of 9 are no good right out of the box. Why do they even bother shipping this junk across the ocean? Why not just take it out in the middle of the ocean someplace and shove it overboard? They obviously can't even be bothered to plug the thing in and see if it works before sticking it in the box.
"Buy American"? Yeah, tell me what American company is making fluorescent light fixtures.
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