Archipelago Lighting SL2-SS 120-Volt 48-Inch Shop Light with 7-Inch Reflector, Stainless Steel Powder Coat

by Archipelago Lighting

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Archipelago Lighting shop light comes with a 7-Inch reflector with a stainless steel powder coat finish. It comes fully assembled and has a 2 year warranty. The reflector is made of heavy duty commercial grade steel and has rolled and folded edges to eliminate sharp edges. This shop light has a convenient pull chain on/off switch. This shop light also has a twist lock and plunger type lamp holders which hold lamps securely and makes bulb installation easy. This shop light has a 5 foot power cord with a 3 prong grounded plug. It also has thermal protection on ballasts to help prevent burNuts. This shop light has a electronic ballast and has a cold weather start temperature to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000NF163M
• Item model number: SL2-SS
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,207 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for - except for shipping and handling, June 20, 2008

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Christopher J. (Mount Vernon, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Archipelago Lighting SL2-SS 120-Volt 48-Inch Shop Light with 7-Inch Reflector, Stainless Steel Powder Coat (Tools & Home Improvement)

This product performs as listed. I hung 4 of these in my single car garage and now when they are on and the door is open, the airplanes line up for final approach. These are very bright with the correct bulb. These lights are inexpensive so don't get fooled into believing you should receive heavy guage, name brand electronics, and ultra sturdy equipment. This item simply works and has no bells or whistles.

Amazon's shipping department has really cost this company's reputation. Because the packaging of three of my four boxes was as the manufacturer origninally shipped them, when they were received by me, they were broken, slashed open, had busted tape, etc. The other box shipped to me was sent by Amazon in an Amazon shipping box. This box was perhaps of a size large enough to contain the entire order, quadrupled. Yes, at the least, including packing materials, 16 lights in OEM packaging could have fit in this box. Instead, it contained 1 light and a whole mess of packing paper. The outside of this box looks as if it had a run-in with Edward Scissorhands and a tape dispenser.

Amazon needs to address it's packaging. Precision Products makes a good low expense Shop Light.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Design for Real World, December 5, 2008

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S. Andreason (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Archipelago Lighting SL2-SS 120-Volt 48-Inch Shop Light with 7-Inch Reflector, Stainless Steel Powder Coat (Tools & Home Improvement)

We bought 10+ of these a couple months ago to provide localized lighting in a warehouse space. Half of them have failed. Initially they're fine. Then after some random period of time they start to flicker. Then they pop their internal fuse.

This occurs because a capacitor on the inside overheats; eventually melting the insulation off an adjacent wire that then shorts to the capacitor, blowing the fuse due to the short. Unlike most shop lights, the ballast is not in it's own metal enclosure. It's not easy to replace the ballast with a different unit.

It may be that the overheat is due to bad quality power, cold weather (60F), cheap tubes, or bad contacts to the bulb. Our tubes work fine with different manufacturer's fixtures. Whatever the precise problem doesn't matter. By the time you've paid for shipping you're better off running to XXXX XXXXX and buying the cheapest POC there; it'll last longer than these.

I too once thought these might be worth a try despite bad reviews; the problem isn't just the shipping.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheap.... and quality to match, September 14, 2008

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Mark D. Leney "Mark Leney" (Rhode Island, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Archipelago Lighting SL2-SS 120-Volt 48-Inch Shop Light with 7-Inch Reflector, Stainless Steel Powder Coat (Tools & Home Improvement)

I got one of these for my basement. I was actually using it to start some seedlings last winter. After a few weeks the switch started behaving erratically and soon after that the light stopped working completely. I complained and a replacement light was duly shipped to me. After a couple of months the new one stopped working. Pressure of work and a new baby prevented me from complaining about it again so I never returned the second one. It is still gathering dust in my basement. I thought that there wasn't much that could go wrong with a fixture like this so I got a cheap one. My mistake. Don't bother with this item.