Sunlite Decorative Dome Fixture, 15.4" Diameter, Satin Nickle Finish, Alabaster Style Reviews
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Rating Summary
“Too small for light bulb”
- a city dweller, A homeowner
- Pros
- Extra parts for options to install., Great price.
- Cons
- Too small for light bulbs
Sunlite Decorative Dome Fixture, 15.4" Diameter, Satin Nickle Finish, Alabaster Style —
I wanted a small fixture, not too big for a somewhat small room, and this was it. The only problem is that no light bulb fits inside the dome! CFLs are larger than standard incandescents, but even incandescents are too big to allow the dome to fit around them. WTF! The outside of the box says "uses 2 100W A19 bulbs (not included)," but the fixture itself is different; it allows 3 bulbs, and has a (fire) warning printed on it not to go above 60W, and not even a single A19 bulb will fit inside the darned thing. Do NOT buy this product sight-unseen. Make a sales-person show you how a light bulb fits inside it BEFORE you buy. I still like the external look of this fixture, and I'll try to make it work, but when the core functionality is fundamentally broken... caveat emptor.
Update:
This is a follow-up to my earlier review. I was finally able to get some satisfactory light bulbs into this fixture, but to do so I had to remove the light socket from it's metal base-plate, and bend the base-plate with a vice grip so that the socket held a sharper angle (about 75 degrees relative to the diameter of the circle instead of 90 degrees, as it was originally). After this modification, I was still UNABLE to fit any A19 (standard) size bulb inside, but now it would fit three 40-watt incandescents, or three "micro-mini" 13-watt CFLs (60-watt equivalent). Normal CFL bulbs still WON'T fit inside, but the new "micro-mini" from Sylvania will, it is the same hight as an A19 incandescent, but by virtue of it being narrower (not a "bulb" shape but more of a cylinder) it can fit inside while the A19 can't. I am giving this product one more star now (3 total) because I am very satisfied with the final outcome, but still withholding 2 stars because of the unforgivable hoops I had to jump through to get here.
I hope this description helps someone skip most of my trials and errors.
Last edited on Nov 24, 2009
Sunlite Decorative Dome Fixture, 15.4" Diameter, Satin Nickle Finish, Alabaster Style
