If you look around for LED pot lights, they all appear pretty similar. You can get 4" 9W LED pot lights from many, many sources. The all look the same.
I have dozens of these lights in my house and dozens in my horse barn, both from the same source. I have lost one in my house in the past four years and have replaced almost every pot light in my horse barn.
The lights in the barn are in a ceiling and are in strings of twelve on their own 15A breakers. The strings are less than 100 feet long.
Twelve 9W lights would draw about 1 amp. The voltage drop, assuming that all of the lights were at the end of the 14 gauge wire (which they are not), would be 0.5%. The interior of the barn never sees rain or temperatures below 5 degrees Celsius or above 27 degrees Celsius.
The attic above the agricultural PVC ceiling is insulated.
When I opened the power supply on one of the failed pot lights, one of the capacitors had a swollen case.
Why are these lights failing? The temperatures are not extreme. The 100 foot lines shouldn't be noisy, there are only a dozen LEDS on them. I'm stumped.
I have dozens of these lights in my house and dozens in my horse barn, both from the same source. I have lost one in my house in the past four years and have replaced almost every pot light in my horse barn.
The lights in the barn are in a ceiling and are in strings of twelve on their own 15A breakers. The strings are less than 100 feet long.
Twelve 9W lights would draw about 1 amp. The voltage drop, assuming that all of the lights were at the end of the 14 gauge wire (which they are not), would be 0.5%. The interior of the barn never sees rain or temperatures below 5 degrees Celsius or above 27 degrees Celsius.
The attic above the agricultural PVC ceiling is insulated.
When I opened the power supply on one of the failed pot lights, one of the capacitors had a swollen case.
Why are these lights failing? The temperatures are not extreme. The 100 foot lines shouldn't be noisy, there are only a dozen LEDS on them. I'm stumped.