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LED Tube Light Fittings

12/07/2009 8:29 PM

Australia will be recalling all LED Tube light fittings in the next couple of months for all government buildings due to eletrocution and or shock. It may be an Idea to keep both active and neutral at the same end but be interchanging so it does not matter at which end of the tube is fitted to the fixture. Also so if the fitter puts their hands on the other end they don't get electrocuted.

One company is currently designing tubes with a 50% faster conversion rate with the safety modifications. If you do not want your suppliers in Australia to loose out better snap to it.

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Re: Australia will be recalling

12/07/2009 9:06 PM

Does this forum allow this type of advertising?

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Re: Australia will be recalling

12/08/2009 10:52 AM

Yes, but advertisements belong in the Commercial Space forum. So that's where I've moved this post.

Is anyone aware of any recalls of LED lighting in Australia? The Guest has not provided us with any evidence of his or her claim.

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Re: Australia will be recalling

12/07/2009 10:21 PM

If service persons are so naive as to touch both ends of a live fixture, maybe Australia should recall its service persons rather than the lamps. Or maybe Darwin or God has recalled some of them already?

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Re: Australia will be recalling

12/08/2009 8:02 AM

DO you really touch the lamps while energised?

At least in my factory the guidelines are to ensure that the supply is cut off (totally er except the ground wire ) before any one is allowed to touch it.

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Re: LED Tube Light Fittings

12/09/2009 6:26 AM

I have heard of Australia recalling T8/T5 LED lighting tubes because of electrocution and shock. Usually when you hear the Govnment is going to recall they do here. I know of at least One university in Far North Queensland and a Marine Biology centre measuring the effect of climate change on the Barrier reef are in consultation with a provider to supply newly designed and Australian certified lamps. I work as an Electrician and know this to be true. The Government will release the call back of all LED replacements for Government Building to comply with the regulatory legeslation for OH&S concerning Government buildings.

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Re: LED Tube Light Fittings

12/15/2009 6:53 PM

There is no re-call for these products,it is a myth.

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Re: LED Tube Light Fittings

12/09/2009 8:29 PM

I want to make a correction to last it is all Government buildings and Commercial buildings to meet new electrical standards being passed through parliment.

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Re: LED Tube Light Fittings

12/16/2009 5:23 AM

T8 LED Tubes that I am selling and using have been NATA accredited and pass the regulation of being double insulated, so how would this be a problem. They are certainly no different to a standard fluro tube, a T5 or a QI luminaire, when it comes to basic electricity installation principles, but are of course, the lights of the future.

It is interesting to note that the latest tender requested by Education Queensland to supply Queensland schools specified T5, which we all know do not have the environmentally and financially friendly features of LED. Is it just a coincidence that the winner of that tender had a shipment of reject T5s from Europe on the water when the tender was announced? Government departments generally do not know what they do not know! That also applies to other parties.

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