Has anyone ever had a problem with the plastic casing of Westek’s 12V Xenon under cabinet puck lights? I installed 8 of these lights during a kitchen remodel less than a year ago. Nothing fancy about the install. Surface mounted under the cabinets. The customer liked the look so they had me install 3 more in a bedroom. I got the “call back†about three months ago that one of these lights had fallen down in the bedroom. The plastic tab where the screw passed through to surface mount the fixture had broken off. I figured I had tightened down the fixture to hard. So I bought a fixture and replaced the base. Two weeks later guess what? The other 2 had fallen and I replaced them as well. Today I just finished replacing the base on one of the kitchen fixtures. After inspecting others, I noticed that they are ready to crack as well. The fixtures I have replaced have not discolored the cabinets or have shown any sign of overheating. The only thing I can think is that the heat from the lights are expanding and contracting the plastic and it cracks. The customer only uses these lights maybe 20 min. a month. NO CLUE! other than cheep plastic manufacturing. The lights are on the proper transformer and the pilot holes I drilled are dead on with the tabs. Has anyone else had a problem like this?
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Hi Dutch,
I believe you are on the right track about expansion and contraction, along with poor batch of plastic material.
In the mean time I would try hanging the lights like vinyl siding. Hanging rather than securing them. Mount them until the screw is just shy of snugging the unit to the mounting surface so that the unit can move under the screw head as it expands and contracts.
Virginbuild
had the same problem, solved it by leaving the screws a little loose
Puck light are junk in my opinion. And a potential fire hazard.
Loose them for some good strip lights.
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