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Guys, the fixture was not mine. It was at Unique Corals. Sanjay Joshi and I went up there to check out their facility. While we were waiting for Joe, the owner, Dave Botwin (o2manyfish) was showing us around. I say that light as I was curious about LED and it looked very stout. Ad dave turned it on it shot fire out the ends then poured out black smoke after it was disconneded. The picture above was the companion fixture that they were experimenting with. I told Ryan the story several months ago so that is why he did not recall the details. Sorry for the confusion. At that point I decided to never use any off brand products as I felt it is not worth it to me to loose everything because of a faulty product. It wasn't that they built crap so much as there was no liability to the seller due to being off shore. I would rather stick to larger more established companies and distributors that are from first world countries that can be held accountable. Mainly because they better stand behind their products.
If you choose black box LEDs and they work for you that is great, it's just not my cup of tea. I care about looks and performance. The performance numbers that BRS provided are enough for me to never consider them even if they were UL listed. And the looks, well.....
Any light can malfunction... you don't see hundreds of posts where black boxes are causing problems anywhere...