BIGLIGHT LED Track Light, Dimmable Accent Lighting with Rotatable Heads, Plug in Spotlight with Remote for Lighting up Kitchen Sink Cabinet Gallery Picture Bathroom Basement Artwork

Awesome! Perfect for the job required. I love the remote with timer capability.

I needed light near my computer keyboard, and this works great. Easy to install (I used the screws), and you can direct the light anywhere. The remote is a bonus

Very nice light. Gives lots of light

This review is specifically for the Amazon item listed as “BIGLIGHT LED Track Light, Dimmable Accent Lighting with Rotatable Heads, Plug in Spotlight with Remote Control for Highlight Kitchen Counter Cabinet Gallery Picture Bathroom Basement Artwork”, and not for any other item even if it seems similar. This is a mini LED track light, with the overall track length being 15.75” [40cm]. The useable part of the track, where the lamp contact bases slide in a recessed channel, is 13.5” [34cm]. There are three (3) LED lamps, each on its own swivel contact base, and the furthest apart the outer two lamps can be is 12” [30cm] (center to center). Within the channel and the dimensional constraints just mentioned, you can slide any lamp to any position; there is nothing other than stick friction to lock the lamps into position in the channel. Each lamp housing contains a single LED chip, with a bit of a reflector behind and a clear dust cover (non-optical lens) in front. Each lamp housing can be rotated 360 degrees and also swiveled 180 degrees, so you can point any given LED in any direction within a virtual hemisphere. The swivels have just enough friction to keep them from flopping around loosely, but there seems to be no obvious way to make them tighter. As long as the object you mount the track light on is stationary and not subject to vibration, I think they will stay in the positions you put them. However, I think if this track light were to be mounted on something mobile, e.g. a motor home/RV, etc; you would have to reposition the lamps every time you want to use the light. The track light comes with an AC “wall wart” power adapter which can be used on any AC ‘mains’ outlet between 100 and 240 Volts, regardless of 50 or 60 Hz frequency. The cord on the power adapter is about 70” long. A barrel plug on the end of the cable fits into a barrel socket on one end of the track light. A small red LED next to the socket illuminates to show that the track light is getting power. There is no direct provision for battery operation. The power supplied by the power adapter is 5V at close to 1.2A. An adventurous and electrically handy owner could probably rig up a battery that could plug into the track in place of the power adapter. The adapter is marked as UL Listed. A momentary-action pushbutton on the track, located adjacent to the end with the power jack, allows turning the LEDs on and off instantly with a push; push to turn them on, push again to turn them off. This pushbutton’s operating surface is in the form of a very dark red plastic dome, and presumably this is because it also acts as the receiving lens/filter for the IR (infrared) remote control. The IR remote control is a palm-sized type, quite small, and it uses a CR2025 coin battery (included). A pair of red and green click-dome/membrane buttons allow turning the lamps full on or full off, duplicating the action of the power switch pushbutton on the track. A group of four more buttons allow instant setting of lamp brightness to either 50% or 100%, or adjusting + and – to produce any brightness between a very low level up to full brightness. If using the remote instead of the main power switch to turn the lamps on/off, there is a memory feature that will remember the last brightness setting and return to it each time the lamps are turned back on. Finally, there are four more buttons for a timer-off feature; pressing the 15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes buttons will result in the lamps turning off automatically after that amount of time has elapsed. After pushing any of these four buttons, the lamps will flash briefly to acknowledge that the timing has started. Turning the lamps off manually using the normal on/off buttons will reset (turn off) the timer-off feature. The user manual/installation instructions in English are printed on one side of a piece of paper, with the reverse side having just the text translated in both French and German. The English text is clearly written and covers both installation and operation in detail. The specifications in the manual state that the LEDs produce 500 LM (Lumens) with a color temperature of 3000K Warm White. The color temperature is not user adjustable. The LED lifespan is estimated as being 30,000 hours. Using hardware provided with this product, the track light can be mounted using two methods: - Snap the track light into a pair of plastic mounting brackets which get screwed to a wall or cabinet, etc. - Use the built-in neodymium magnets of the rear side of the track light to hold it to the provided postage-stamp-sized steel plates, which in turn can be stuck onto any suitable surface using the similarly sized 3M adhesive foam pads (also included). Because the magnets are recessed into the rear of the rack (to keep the rear flush with the mounting surface when the metal plates are used), you probably will not be able to directly have the magnets against metal shelving or cabinets. But if you purchase some small coin-sized neodymium magnets (two of them), you could have them act as intermediaries between the magnets on the track light and the desired metal mounting surface. The Amazon listing suggests that this product will be attractive for applications such as: - Highlighting areas or objects (but not very big ones since the size is fairly small and Lumens is not all that powerful) - Underneath kitchen counters and cabinets (or inside larger ones to illuminate the interiors) - Galleries to illuminate displayed artifacts and pictures - Bathrooms - Basements It would probably also work well for lighting up small areas on workbenches, if there is a place to mount it overhead such that the lights don’t shine into your eyes. In my own application, I mounted the track light onto a cinder block wall in my basement (using the included plastic mounting brackets, screws and plastic expansion anchors). I have it illuminating the tops of the dual yacht/marine batteries of my AC/DC “Basement Watchdog” sump pump setup, thus making battery maintenance (inspection and topping off of fluids) much easier. I can swivel one or more lamps to aim light directly at, and even down into, individual cells on the batteries, handy when trying to add distilled water. To keep the remote control from getting lost, I used one each of the included small metal plates and adhesive foam pads to result in a magnetically attractive back on the remote control. The I used a neodymium magnet I had laying around and stuck it on a nearby metal outlet box, so now the remote control just stays stuck to that box until I need it. This seems to be a well-designed product of decent quality. I anticipate that it will continue to work well for years to come.

Nice but cheaply made and the magnetic sticker option always fell which was annoying because I had to get on a ladder to put the light back up only to come into my salon the next day and find the light back on the floor. I even bought adhesive magnets rated to hold 50 pounds and the lights wouldn't stick to the adhesive. After 2 or 3 times of them falling, I switched to the clip and screws that came with the light kit. The lights give off decent brightness, not as bright as I needed. The remote control works great. I had to buy an extension cord, but as I said, I installed the lights pretty high - about 10 foot ceiling, so I figured the cord length wasn't going to be long enough to reach the outlet without an extension.