Byron Elro RVS46LA E27 Bulb Stainless Steel Wall Light with PIR Motion Detector and LED Twilight,25w

Despite Amazon positioning some variants of this product in a negative manner, I went ahead and bought through another supplier (Big Red Toolbox). It appears that the key concern is that water will run down the glass globe and gather within the core fixture, and then penetrate deep within and cause electrical chaos.As the globe sits on top of the metal 'cup' and is secured via two plastic arms which swivel out to lock it in place, I can see how water would get down there, as there is no seal around the join. The packaging makes a big feature of a drain hole near the base of this shallow metal cup, and one could see how this should resolve the problem. And also understand how once contaminants have accumulated, water could find it's own path to the innards.In my situation, although we regularly get high winds and copious rainfall (it's Scotland, what do you expect?!), this door-side lamp is under a 2' overhanging roof eave and so never gets anything worse that moist air wafted across it. So the identified problem, isn't.You can create your own rear entry point if you want (within the top half of the wall presented section), but sealing it would be a problem if you need to.I used a halogen E27 lamp (=69W) and it's nice and bright. Roadway traffic around 30' away doesn't trigger it, but the neighbour's car on the shared driveway 20' away does. As do all callers to either property. Duration of switch-on period and daylight/nightime sensitivity both adjustable.For me, it's a brilliant product - dead chuffed. I can understand that it may not perform well in a genuinely exposed situation, and would say that it doesn't appear to be designed to do so. Yes the glass is delicate / thin. In a sheltered environment, and treated gently, as thin glass should be, then it will work as expected.

The light works fine. The LED light is surprising bright. I've attached a photo to try and show how it looks. You can easily see what you are doing with that light on alone - at least for an area of a few meters around the light. I've dropped one star because of the problem I had fitting it. I put the plastic thing on the wall that the metal light attaches to. When I put the light on the plastic, it was not vertical. Fair enough - I had not been very accurate putting the plastic base on - just did it by eye. So I drilled 2 more holes after using a spirit level on the two holes for the metal bit to make sure they were 100% horizontal. But again, the lamp was not vertical. Now I realise that the holes are crooked. I attached a photo where you can see (now that the light is vertical) that the two bolts are not horizontal. So watch out for that!

I bought 3 of these wall lights and they do look good. I installed them in March 2012 (bought in Dec 2011) and they have worked OK until one failed (PIR sensor) in Feb this year. I contacted Amazon for support but they do not sell it any more so cannot replace the faulty item. 'Sorry can't help'. I was advised to contact the manufacturer but they are not contactable under the trade name of Byron Elro (why are they hiding) Amazon could not supply any contact details for the manufacturer (unbelievable?!!)I am left with 1 failed wall light, 2 that are working at the moment. They look great but have poor quality electronics.I am faced with having to buy another to replace this unit but when will the others fail? Or replace all three (£110 spent on these down the drain)Nice Looking Light, Poor Quality Electronics, Unreliable, No Support

I bought this because it looked stylish and suited the house and I've had no problems until I needed to change the bulb. Easy and simple to open the securing screws but the glass cover has remained 'welded' to the metal base. The glass appears as thin as is stated by other reviewers and the electrician who installed it advised me to be careful when changing the bulb as it could easily shatter. So rather than risk broken glass I have left it with a blown bulb. Thankfully the LED light is still working, so I am not left completely without a light.It's not a bad product but too expensive in light of the less than robust design or you can't change the bulb. Any tips on this front gratefully received!

The light looks really nice on the wall, the white LEDs at the bottom are a good feature and I put my house number under neath it and it lights it up and looks very classy. In fact some one just came to my house and commented at how clearly visible my house number is, compared to the rest of the street :)However the PIR is a bit of a disappointment. It will turn the light on when a bus passes at a distance of about 50 feet away, but when a human walks around in front of it, he has to be about 10 feet away from it to activate the light, or in the exact line of the IR rays. I think this 10 feet distance activation must be from the bottom part of the PIR, as I had to paint over part of the PIR (the top half of it - left to right) to stop the buses activating the light. I fitted it at 2.0m (within the recommended height of 1.8m - 2.0m), but I think to get it to activate correctly (i.e. using the front part of the PIR), the light 'might' need to be at a height of 1.5m (which is a bit too low for a largish light like this), but I am not sure, this is just my theory!One more thing worth mentioning, the power cable must be channeled from the back of the light. I had to drill/chisel a 4cm long x 1 cm wide channel to feed the cable from the back. At first I thought I could simply drill a new hole from the side of the plastic frame, but I forgot that the silver chrome frame goes over the top, so it is not possible.The 2 screws that come with this light are pretty solid and long enough as compared to other useless free screws that come with other lights. Drill bit #7 is to be used for the 2 wall plugs that come with the screws.