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Great light with a few minor flaws.
By KJH on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016
This arrived in the mail yesterday and I immediately had places for all them. What do I like about these? I love that they are motion activated and don't require me to try and find it #1 and then try to either find the button to turn it on like other lights or try to fidget with it during the middle of the night when you are half asleep to plug it in. Unlike most night lights they don't have to be on all the time and they don't require a plug. I have very limited outlets in my house so the ones I do have are highly sought after and pretty well taken up by one thing or another. I always have to get up at least once a night whether that is to go to the bathroom let the dog out, figure out what that noise was, the list goes on. Having some sort of light that will turn on when all I do is walk past it is awesome. I no longer have to fight to plug in the night light (if I can find it because I had to plug the vacuum into the outlet the night light was plugged into). It was a nightmare before. I now have the 1 outlet I have in my bathroom free from having to have the night light plugged in, SO WONDERFUL! THE CONS TO THIS LIGHT ARE: 1. The sticky pads they come with tore the paint off my wall when I tried to adjust the light. So I worry about when I want to take them off what will the others do to the paint? I think that command strips would be better to hang them up. Command strips come off the wall a lot better than the sticky pads they came with, though I wonder if the command strips are strong enough to hold these up. I would like to try it but I don't want to rip anymore paint off my walls. I would recommend trying the command strips first before using the sticky pads they came with to put these up. I wish they had something that would peel off the wall a little easier. 2. Last night when I woke up I noticed that the light I set up in the bathroom was on. I don't know why because my husband was asleep in bed with me, the dog was snoring on the floor at the foot of the bed, and there was no one else up or moving around. So either A. we have ghosts or the elf that lives around the house (Ya know the one that steals all your stuff, or the one that broke your favorite lamp because no one else did it) is setting these off OR the more likely reason is that they do go off with having no motion which means a shorter battery life. The lights require 4 AA batteries which is quite a bit if you have more than 1 of these lights that you are trying to put up. 3. They are pretty big, though with that they do put out a lot of light. I was impressed when I took a shower this morning and didn't feel like I needed to turn the light on to shower. I did have to keep opening the shower door though to keep the light on after it would turn off with no motion. I still wish that they were just a bit smaller than they are. It would make putting them in tight places a bit easier. That isn't a huge a concern though. This has nothing to do with why I don't like them, just a note for those about to buy them. I did have a hard time trying to figure out where on earth to put the battery. The instructions kept saying to unscrew the 2 screws when all I was seeing was 1 screw. I had unscrewed that screw and kept trying to take the back off but it wouldn't come off. Once I realized there is a plate that you have to SLIDE off, I found that second screw and it was easy from there. I am sure I can't be the only one who had that problem or will have that problem so watch out for that. Once you got it from there it was easy as a calk walk to install and put up. OVERALL these are great lights with a few minor flaws. Nothing I felt like worth docking it 1 star. I am still happy to have them and glad I purchased them. I don't regret that at all. The motion sensor is so nice to have and that does seem to work well when you walk past it. I haven't had any problems yet with that not working or the light not turning on when I want it to.
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THEY SHOULD BE RECALLED - THEY DON'T LAST EVEN SEVEN MONTHS ON A SET OF BATTERIES - SAVE YOUR MONEY
By MS on Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2015
SECOND UPDATE: 6/27/2015 New information. One of the lights that has Duracell batteries in has now started to cycle. One of the lights did not work at all when I put Duracell batteries in. I plan to retire the lights as they start to cycle. It is not worth putting any brand of battery in these. It's too bad. The light that they put out is just what I had hoped for. If they could only make a durable light, I would buy more. When I got my first set, I thought of more places that I could use the temporary light. I can still think of additional places I would put more if they were any good. Since they are supposed to work for at least a year on four batteries, and I have had five of fourteen fail now in seven months or less; I have to conclude that these lights are not worth the money. UPDATE: I need to change the rating from one star to five stars with the caveat that I put as the name of the review. I will leave my original review for a while at least in case someone read it and was influenced by it (I know at least one person was). I hope anyone who read the first review reads this update. Mr. Beams may have been right. While the first unit that failed had Energizer batteries in it, which was one of the brands that they suggested, all of the others had Maxell Alkaline. Of the six original units that I had I put Energizer in one of them (it failed), Maxell in one of them (it failed) and Duracell in the other four (none failed). The others all had Maxell Alkaline. I have now ordered Duracell batteries and cancelled my Subscribe & Save subscription for Maxell batteries. Mr. Beams should suggest in the description that the customer use Duracell batteries. I really liked these when I got my first six in December. I put them in places that needed a light but didn't have a nearby socket. I realized that I had more places that could use one of these, so I ordered six more in February. Shortly after those arrived, one of the original six started to cycle on and off, even though there was no movement nearby. The cycle was constant, even in strong light. I assumed the batteries were bad, so I replaced them. They were Energizer batteries. Soon, a second one from the original order started cycling. I removed the batteries. I stopped using the light. Then the first one that started cycling did it again. I removed the batteries and wrote an email to the company. At first they tried to blame the batteries because I am using Maxell Alkaline in most of them. That would not explain the first one to go bad or the ones that are still working. Most of them have Maxell, but some of them have Duracell. Eventually, they agreed to send me replacements for the two that were not working. They sent them May 8. In the last week one of the six from my second order started cycling as well as one of the replacements that the company sent me in May. They are supposed to last a year on one set of batteries, but I have had four out of fourteen fail to do that so far. A 28% failure rate is unacceptable, but I fear it will be higher. A terrific waste of money on the lights and the batteries that I can no longer use either.
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