previously on the channel we've reviewed this the Radialed Rapid light fitting from JCC Lighting
is packed full of some innovative features but the one we're going to look at today it says on
the box here it's two and a half times faster to install did somebody say rapid i'm on me way
thank you very much haha rapid light fitting and rapid Gaz the perfect match i would suggest you're
right Gary and in efixx tradition you know that we love to put fast products possibly
save electrician's time versus alternatives that you could install okay so that means i've got the
light fitting from jcc that's got my name on the box and i'm installing that one then and
the great news is gary you've also gonna have to race with yourself against the alternative product
that you could have to install when thinking about bulkheads so it is time to watch gary race himself
and we're off it's the radial ed rapid versus this mystery bulkhead that we acquired from a
well-known retailer who covers both the trade and the diy market and has a click and collect service
the Radialed from JCC already comes unassembled so that's the first thing you don't have to do is
take it apart in order to prepare it for the surface in which you're installing it it's got
a lovely tray as well gordon it has yeah so you can simply unclick that from the front with this
just small retaining catch and then everything is on that front gear trailer you've got the
led module and the driver put that safely to one side so you're not going to get drill dust and
other debris in or you may want to store it in a longer first fix installation you'll notice the
mystery one is out with the very small allen key just about long enough so you can get them undone
but puts a lot of pressure on your fingers yeah that was actually supplied with the fitting as
well so there's a bonus tool he didn't expect yeah if i've only got a longer one i've got a
drill and prepare the holes now in the back of the jcc fitting so four four mil holes in order to do
that and then i'm going to punch out a 20 mil hole in the back of it you'll notice on the mystery one
i'm back out with a screwdriver because that tray has three screws holding it in it does yeah it's
got the screws but again the driver stays on the back plate so yes you can unplug the leds
and put them to one side you've still got to deal with that driver yeah so we're in with the 20 mil
hole in the back the keen eared amongst you might hear the fact that i left it on hammer
when you twist those on it tends to move it round yeah but luckily all the conduit entry points in
this fitting are marked very clearly with us all small dimple in the middle for the pilot drill
the same can't be said on the other one where strange that the driver seems to be in the area
where you want to bring the 20mm hole through gary it was a concern yes so the driver if i
came through from the back there's a great chance i'm going to drill through half of the driver
so i'm going to have to take out a screw or two here in order to move that to one side i'm into
the packet of the jcc for my grommet and screws and they all use the phillips one so the screws
that hold the front on and the back plate are all using the same screwdriver nice touch that's good
yep so we're already mounting that on the wall and you're still unscrewing the other fitting
and yep you're going in with the first screw so just you're just going to show us one here
gary i think we know how to screw something to a wall yeah where i can i've tried to reduce the
length of the video just from a point of view of screwing things in you gotta put four screws in it
let's see it get onto the wall and likewise and both of them so twenty minute hole now into my
um mystery fitting not quite so easy though no the bit of a problem here because it isn't marked out
for the pilot drill you're actually on the bit where they injected the plastic when they made
it so i thought it was going to slip off there yeah well i was a little bit concerned so gromit's
now going in you get two in the packet with the jc radialed um i'm only going to need one of those
so i wonder if that other one will come in handy later on you might do yeah so
yeah just put that into place and yeah you're well on with this uh install and you're still
drilling holes in the mystery product oh just move that driver out the way with a drill there
i didn't think you'd notice that yes i nudged it out of the way good job i didn't catch any
of those cables been wrapped around on the key to drill so effectively now the jcc fitting is
just required to be second fixed so strip off my twin and cpc cable i'm going to make those
connections again i'll speed this up slightly on both of them i'm sure we know how to strip
cables except i'll take a couple of attempts here this could give the mystery one a chance to catch
up you're on there you're on there let's see hold on you've just uh where do you get that
grommet from for the other one i found one on the table there was a spare one from the jc
radio led so i went for that one very good well yeah he got to use it that that one came with
a normal stuffing glass and didn't have anything for the the uh entry from the back with the cable
uh so you're well on that we putting your earth sleeving on there yeah my cpc is leaving on i'm
just now going to put my tray back in nice clever that just clicks again clips into place and then
we're into screwless terminals it's the future i think uh it's about time everybody caught up just
pressed push my conductors into place and i'll just put my connector strip then back into the
appropriate slot so it held in place on the back plate yeah we've got looping loop out facility
on there as well and again it's great being able to remove that connector block bring it forward
do your wiring then just nicely nest it back in obviously i did these two races separately but
this stage i thought i have a little bit of time to do a little bit of dressing i didn't feel under
too much pressure no no you're backing yourself there gary i'm backing myself i'm back in the
fitting actually it's almost putting itself on the wall this is great now so i've only got to locate
the first time i've ever fitted one so of course i've got to get in the right position gas come on
yeah that's slightly off center and just click pushes back something satisfying about that
again no screws needed for that if you did need to remove it just press the tabs in again it's easy
to get back after you need to access the wiring or do some maintenance and you look at the mystery
one i'm still at the process of stripping off the twin and cpc cable i've got my cover on now on the
jcc fitting and it's just those screws to apply yeah four screws yeah that's it and again you
don't need to see all of these going okay as we shorten the video out on both sides yeah there is
a decorative trim that we can put around it once we've finished it covers the screws and obviously
creates a very nice neat looking fitting the other one doesn't have those okay but that's it
your install's done on that yeah we have that's it nicely finished just gently press that stop button
and that one's done so meanwhile back over at the mystery fitting uh you're stripping your wires
there see we're going to be going into some screw terminals yeah but look how quickly i stripped
those two first time attempts on both those i'm catching up now i would suggest are you going to
double them over have you got time on your hand i would have done yes if i'd uh yeah if i'd have uh
no i didn't actually i left them single just to make a straight comparison i think they're a bit
long as well well yeah i thought you were gonna do that because yeah it looks like you're gonna
have to chop those down a bit yeah i am gonna chop those out there we go yeah okay well it's quicker
quicker than doubling i was trying to keep the uh comparison identical didn't double them over
in the uh radial lead fit in for jcc okay so here we go do you think screwed connections are going
to catch on well i don't know some people still like screw connections but i'd rather go with a
screwless one myself um yeah imagine you're doing this and you have two wires to get in there you're
looping in and looping out yeah yeah just fumbling around to get them in you notice the uh the driver
is still hanging freely underneath the fitting as well yeah you're gonna do a reassembly job
soon yes i have i've got to find all these little screws and pop them all back into position cpc is
just secured in back obviously fully insulated fitting so it doesn't require the protective
conductor but we'll pop that one back in i think you'd mentally now be thinking well what's
happening to the person that fitted the jcc fit in i would suggest they're either fitting another one
or maybe they're doing a completely different job yeah they're under here so you're just putting the
driver back in so find out what did you do with that screw it was a very tiny screw notice we've
just moved on a little bit there in time and once i've found it so pop that into position always
tricky and you know when you drop them from height especially you look one way it goes the other so
that's my driver back into position i'm going to bring the circuit board back in with the leds even
subtle differences there you'll see the light the way the light distribution on the jcc one works
they've cleverly positioned those leds on this one they're all over the place so it's just all
shining straight out through the front of the fitting all right i've got to balance that now
because i'm now going off and find the screws that hold on they're three very small screws
and the uh comparison now here is a little bit different obviously i clipped my tray on to my jcc
radial lead yeah a little easy this is where the time saving really starts to
come in because you've got those tiny screws and there's interest there's four holes in that
circuit board but only three screws and now you've got to try and find out where they line up to and
they are fiddly there is not much play in them so i start getting them in but they are fiddly
to align with the holes in the back top tip it's the ones with the black circle around next time
yeah well remember this was the first time i took both products out of the box as a fair comparison
so there was a little bit of a learning as you go here yep so you've got one in
so you just sort of balance it while you look for the other screws yeah and you might say well
straight comparison well there's one of them yeah okay i tried to style through that one yeah people
have lost the washer as well it didn't need it it was extra packaging so i'm going to pop those on
because the other one just clipped into place i'm showing all three of these screws going in because
that's a difference between the products i'm pleased to show them because i think uh yeah you
dropped them a few times no just the ones i think i dropped just the ones yeah nearly there yeah
oh yeah it was a difficult difficult process in order to get them in there but once you've
got them in there oh you've dropped them on the floor it was toys yeah that's uh yeah imagine if
you're a ladder that would be yeah you wouldn't be happy yeah so it's an element of pressure i
wanted to get it done in the fastest possible time okay only one of them is called rapid so
now you've just got to put the cover back on with more screws yeah but because we've got fixings on
both of them i'm going to not show you all the uh effort i put in with that allen key yep that's it
lovely just yeah just always make them just a bit too they fit themselves those allen key heads
lovely here you go yeah nearly there you can't do them all tight at once so again you have to walk
work your way around don't you so there we go all done done i think that was pretty conclusive two
things there i won the race i just want to note that down for the efix team that i won the race
and when you looked at the two time clocks i think it was about two and a half times quicker than it
was to install that other one now that was a nice touch as well yet the allen kell must suggest that
i'm not in love with tiny allen keys certainly not and also i'd argue that the jcc fitting behind us
actually looks a lot better than that alternative product and one of the reasons for that is the
clip on bezel yeah which i've got another three in front of us here we've got the chrome the
satin chrome and the black eyelid one i'm going to put you to work i want you to take this one off
and let's fit this black eyelid one in its place well that looks pretty simple so i'll just
take that one off yeah there you go and you can fit this new one for me okay
and just uh also remember we brought the cable in the back of the product on uh when we installed
there is also the option to take a conduit through obviously the body of the fixture
but also through the the rim itself and that's uh obviously good because we clip it on to that
clip over the conduit so if you have to rotate down try and get it straight try your hardest
there we go converted that to an eyelid fit and i think that looks pretty good as well it does and i
think over time so i took both of them out of the box okay it's the first time i fit both products
and that's the way i like to do it so it's a fair comparison but with all the nice little touches in
the box from jcc with it being disassembled and all the rest of it i still think i would have
got quicker installing these and this is where we want your feedback have you been fitting the
radialed from jcc lighting if you have leave it below and how much quicker you think they are to fit
yeah and if you've got a project coming up that needs 10 fitting gary will be more than happy to
come along and show you how fast it is check out the full review we made on this product that looks
in depth at some of those great design features in there i will leave a link in the description below
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