AC-DC wrote:Good point but you will find that the stores that have this type of attitude do not have trained staff exclusively on the use, design and application of LED lighting, nor do they care to have. LED lighting specialists on the other hand do have the knowledge and desire to ensure that a customer gets the right LED light for the purpose that it was intended for.
Unfortunately the vast majority of people selling LEDs, whether on eBay or claiming to be specialist suppliers, have little idea of what they are selling. This week they are "specialist LED suppliers", whilst last week they sold high tech compost bins, and the week before they sold something else again. Next week they will be selling whatever they think will make a buck, and in many cases a quick investigation shows they are "specialists" in various things depending on which "specialist" web site we are looking at. It is also very rare to find any mention of exactly what training has qualified someone to call themself an expert in LED lighting (with the exception of the wife of someone I knew in the 80's who had a PhD and several papers published in the field of LEDs!). Of course this is no different from the 16 year old "computer expert" salesmen in Harvey N's!
On this forum we have had people posting recommendations of companies "from whom they have bought LED's" that, after the briefest of investigations, turn out to be their own companies. Genuine specialists do not resort to those levels to sell products, those people have simply imported a container of Chinese product and are selling it by whatever means they can find....
None of this, by the way, is directed at "AC-DC", as whilst I don't recall an explicit statement of relationship with acdcledlights or Bill Norris Air Conditioning, the avatar and username are certainly not trying to hide it.