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Review on Upgrade Your Kitchen With High-Quality HARRRRD Hardwired LED Under Cabinet Task Lighting - Dimmable, 16W, CRI>90, 4000K Cool White, Wide Body, Long-Lasting Metal Base With Frost Lens by Gary Flick

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Flawed design on my review.

The light is fine, but there I had some issues. Firstly. the instructions have you to remove the plastic lens and then the cover. It takes quite a bit of force to squeeze the cover enough to disengage the sheet metal front of it from the clips. Since the lights are on this cover, it seems they could be easily damaged removing or replacing this piece. The next issue is there is very little room in the back of this cover to store the wires and wire nuts. So the supply wires have to be long enough to be able to reach the storage area, but not so long that you have to bend them back on each other. Take the time to analyze where wires are going to be when everything's connected before you cut them to length.The punch out hole and supplied cable connector are barely big enough the get the wires in their sheathing through. There is a larger punch out in the middle that I used with my own (3/4") romex connector, but the inside of the cover is too narrow for the screw to be on the inside of the unit.Because of the lack of room for the wires, I had a hard time getting the cover back into the housing and the sheet metal is thin on the back of the cover so it bent, I was able to straighten it out, push thee wires back and get the cover clicked back into the housing with a fair amount of force. I just think there should be more room for the wires - like the unit I was replacing - and a better design for fitting the the cover together with the housing that doesn't require you to squeeze the cover until it bends enough to slip into the housing.Also, the diagrams on the supplied instruction sheet are way too small to be useful and the "wiring diagram" doesn't actually show any wires. Luckily, that is pretty straightforward. It looks like they just copied the previous diagram by mistake. You can probably get instructions on-line, if needed.

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Pros
  • SWEAT-FREE installation and maintenance with easy to follow installation instructions, and easy to clean aluminum housing with no bulbs to replace
Cons
  • Not energy-efficient, resulting in higher electricity bills