today we're going to take a look at LEDVANCE's damp proof (non corrosive) IP65 range
memory lane for me I've spec'd a lot of these we've got a long memory because you've been around for
a long time so where would you like to take us in that moment i mean these are workhorse fittings
of industry seeming everything from water treatment, garages anywhere where there's dust
and you need a reasonable degree of protection from a water yeah and i can see we've got this
one out of the box and it's parts that it came with but shall we take a look at how we got to
this stage have a look oh so let's get into some unboxing what i like about the box nice picture
of the product and all the specification data is on that label at the end so you're not going to
confuse it if you've got different variants before you get it even out of the box what i liked about
the box it only had the fitting in it and not some miscellaneous items that could get obviously lost
yeah that's highly likely yeah with me you suggest the clips are brilliant because they're on it
yes oh yeah i've seen a lot of these things where they might be plastic and they easily drop off
or that you need you need incredible strength to to get them off and to put them back on
and obviously these clips are important to keep that ip65 rating of this fitting
yeah and to be in place on the fitting at the start is good so i wanted to put them on myself
pull the tray out of the way all right i've got a bag of bits here yeah i'm
going to bring in my new scissors all right some criticism in the past about my blunt scissors
let's see what's in here then a bag got some parts yeah so let's have a look just open it
out these clips here are for both surface mounting and if you wanted to say hang it
for something like a chain all right okay that's good yeah so there's two of those
we've got a couple of grommets so um if you want to blank out a hole for your gland which you get
two the other gland is on the end so if i wasn't going to use that one i took it out obviously i've
got a grommet all right okay and there's plenty of other cable entry possibilities in this fishing
as well i'll show you them as we go through let's have a look at these clips first so if i was going
to hang it just put the little bracket in just like so firmly held into position it's done both
hook those in and it's really nice where they situate on the actual back of the
fitting itself so let's look at these holes first i've got options to come in the center
all right yeah or the end all right yep and from the back or from the side entry here yeah so all
of those are possibilities and you notice there the edge here where i'm going to put my actual
bracket clip right okay look at that oh that was quick yeah so you don't need to drill the fixture
body at all to put your mounting brackets on no so you don't worry there are four about
your ip65 you start drilling holes into it if you want to add a security element to that so
anti-theft or anti-vandal yeah we've got this bolt here and you can put that through and it'll
grip it against the actual fitting itself all right so you can't then take the bracket off
the back of the fitting no you can't which is good so that goes up and that will also require
a torque setting all right there is a torque setting here yeah there's
more and more products we're seeing coming with uh with torque settings on them uh and again from
for me it is safe to sign the quality that the manufacturer's got the trouble of telling you this
yeah so talk that one up where do you find the torque settings obviously it's in the instructions
it's between four and five newton meters of torque so that's a beefy torque setting yeah
yeah you kind of expect on a bolt when we look inside the fitting itself better quality again
all right so we've got some screwless terminals there's a little wiggle business so you've got
the dali version of this fixture as well the five pole if you'd like uh if you'd like us to do more
videos about darley it's something we do get asked about from time to time then drop a comment below
got the conductor lengths there as well again a little bit more quality here isn't there gordon
yeah yeah so yeah again these are built from quality components and what i do not straight
away is the ENEC symbol both on the driver there itself and on the fixtures means
the products actually been to a lab to be at its performance validated and you don't often see that
that's all right doing it on a benchtop gary but i think we now need to validate your performance
and see if you can actually fit one in real life so let's have a look at this fitting you're going
to replace gary so that's first very typical twin fluorescent fitting yeah so this one doesn't have
any ip protection specifically and possibly in this environment it could definitely benefit
one particularly dust yeah so i'm just going to pop this one out away i'm sure people are now
saying why is that fitting hanging the floor i'm currently on is going to be removed so before i
need to get in a scissor lifter i might as well change the fitting itself yeah so i feel like
obviously it's got some hazardous waste there that lamp check out the video we've made on that if you
haven't seen it yeah just check that you're getting rid of your fixtures in the right way
so you're going to replace keep the existing cable from the supply yeah i'm just going to re-route it
um but you can see there look what we've done previously knotted flex through a very large hole
i'm just going to unscrew this i'm going to re-route it round you'll see on the back of the
fitting and how much of the dust has accumulated and that dust would have also fallen through all
the holes in the back of the fitting yeah so we're going to replace it with a fitting we're
going with the 5 foot version of 1500 millimeters if you're from uh if you're from the metric era
it's 46 watts 6400 lumens this range goes from 18 watts 2400 lumens all the way up to 81 watts
which is 11 000 lumens or a lot of light and the range is 135 lumens per watt now them clips
that i really like yeah yeah so you can easily adjust them
yeah so if you if you're trying to fix those existing positions yeah you can just move it
along until you've got it hanging in the right place oh what i like there
gear trail hanging in place it's not going to work yeah and i didn't have to put those in they were
already clipped in place uh we all walls know we're going to bring this out don't we oh yeah
and again because the glam was in place i probably would have come directly into the back i didn't
want to drill another hole into it at this stage so i'm just going to come into the side position
and make my connections off into that way go connector yeah
so again this is a dali version but we're not using the dial at this stage but we may want to
add lighting control sensors you can get sensors that go on the under fittings if you wanted to
have each one locally controls yeah press push fit and there is a torque setting for
the gland on the end yeah not often you see that actually no it's in the instructions
so most satisfying bit for me this is feeling the protective layer off the off the diffuser
again that gear tray hanging is a great feature just now just got to clip those back in place
yeah nice firm clips as well just pop those back into place this can work in temperatures from
minus 25 up to plus 40. and you can see the difference there in that workshop already so we've
got the 4000 kelvin version 6500 also available now that was an easy install surely it's time for
you to pull up a chair and just listen to your wax lyrical now i always say you can judge the
quality of the light fitting by the amount of data that the manufacturer gives you and that's
specifically with regards to light output and that thing we always talk about lumen maintenance and
l70 and l80 if you don't have a clue what that means we haven't made a separate video about that
but lead fans give you two numbers for this so it has an l80 of 50 000 hours wow so that's 80 output
at 50 000 but they go beyond that and there's also 70 000 hours to l70 now you know with these being
an industry it's all about that cost of ownership you want long maintenance cycles you can improve
time between uh changes obviously by dimming and things like that but yeah led fans great
that that data is there and what about color rendering gordon yeah so again probably yeah
a lot of applications where color rendering is important so this is ra 80 so certainly
equivalent to a lot of the fluorescent light sources that it's likely to be replacing
and light distribution obviously you can download uh lumen output files if you
if you're doing your own lighting design or it's 110 degrees if you want to have a
do a rough estimate of how much uh where that light is going to go it's also ik 08 as well
yeah and it is it's a it's a robust fitting so i mean i like it i mean there's a lot of
fittings out there that you know every yeah okay it's a it's a it's a four or a five foot version
yeah yeah they they all look pretty similar but it's down to that small specification details
that are going to make a difference between if it's a yeah a long-lived installation of
and again keeping the keeping the moisture out yeah and it's that quality that i felt when i was
installing it but as always we're interested in your comments is this a fitting in the past that
you've fitted from LEDVANCE is it a fitness you're now thinking about fitting in the future
please all leave all those comments below i mean gordon will try and get back to as many as we can