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Old 03-13-2011, 08:05 PM
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Angry and now the splitter box issue...

Well, the power cords came-- after ten days because the warehouse apparently "forgot" to give them to the UPS delivery guy (had I known they were just standard computer cords, I could gone out and bought them here in Winnipeg in five minutes).
Plugged it all in, only to find one of the inputs on the splitter box does not work. and the slot on the box that takes the fixture's control cable must have something wrong with it, too, because the control cable is clearly designed to "click" into the splitter box, and it does not. Minor moving of the splitter box causes the control cable to slip out and it has to be gently put back in, whereupon the unit re-initializes. Fortunately, the unit has so far unfailingly saved the custom settings and returns to them when it goes back on. Having to reprogram every time would have driven me nuts by now.
The two banks of lights that do work right now -- white (thank heaven) and one of the blues (royal, I think but am not sure without the other blue bank to compare to) are lovely! I'm sure when the third bank is added to the mix, it will be really quite remarkable...
BUT-- for $3300, these problems should NOT have cropped up!!
I am torn between being a happy customer because these lights look great already, and I am sure will be really, really great once they are working properly-- and being a totally cheesed-off customer because I have had them now for almost a month and they still aren't working properly!!
I just hope the workmanship on the lamps does not turn out to be a shoddy as the quality control-- which should have shipped the required cables that DO comes with the unit-- or the lousy workmanship that went into this crappy splitter box!
It's one thing designing a wonderful lighting system. It's another having the service orientation to make sure the light gets to the customer in proper condition.
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