bishop,
whats the price range for erco downlight ? and where to get it in kv ?

Last I checked it was about rm200-300 per down light for their cheaper range    But using that in a regular house is over design... 

go to shops that sells to project and you will find better light fixtures there. Most retail shops by the roadside sell cheap china lights with little regard for quality. 

Best is to buy from 'real' brands, not some brand less fitting. Look and see if they have websites or some brochure at least. Read up and see if their fittings have any special features - long lasting, wide angle throw, high efficiency, etc... Then you know that the fitting is not some cheap copy. 

Hi all, reading through several downlight related threads, found out no one mentioning the downlight quality issue as I think it might not be a big concern/big deal until today I took some sample downlights from a shop and I found out these. Kindly refer to the photos below for much better illustrations and elaborations.

You all may quite familiar with this design of simple downlight I took 2 samples which are size 4 inch and 6 inch.

Before we install the downlight together with reflector, we should see something as above which are the downlight casing(the white ring) + supports(the black frame). When I have a close up inspection on the quality suddenly found out that the 6 inch one quite abnormal


there are additional unusual holes on the casing as in the photo above.


another close up on the unusual holes. This might not be a big deal as when you fix the reflector, everything are covered up. But I am just curious is this suppose to be on the 6 inch downlight?

seem like there is a missing support as the additional holes are actually used to fix the 4 supports instead of just 3? as below


Other than that, I felt like the supports are forced to be fixed on the 6 inch frame until they are deformed to be out of shape as below


I took another close up inspection on the 4 inch one, everything nicely done without additional holes or out of shape


Sharing is caring, just to share out and see any sifus here are actually know about this or not, dont shoot me la ok? Just FYI, I quoted a few shops for this design of downlight and this shop is selling the cheapest among others. Therefore I would like to ask about the unusual thing as above as I was thinking that this is the reason for the shop to sell cheap