10X LED Magnifying Lamp with Clamp, KIRKAS 2,200 Lumens Dimmable Super Bright Daylight Magnifying Glass with Light, Adjustable Swivel Arm Lighted Magnifier Lamp for Reading Repair Crafts- Black

UPDATE:You can read what I previously posted as it is educational with respect to the light. HOWEVER, this light is the brightest (lumens) of its type and KIRKAS is the only vendor making it. I DID like it enough to purchase another one. The vendor also contacted me about the problem, and had sent a brand new replacement, not just parts or send it in for repairs. All of this happened in a very timely and friendly manner – basically it has been an excellent customer service experience for me and everything resolved beyond expectations. As a result, I have updated my review and rating to 5 stars and 100%. It just doesn’t get better than this. Highly recommended.In many respects it’s not a bad light, but as other reviewers have noted, the construction is a bit flimsy and the clamp finicky although the good point is it can be screwed to the surface for guaranteed stability. My main complaint is that the rotary on/off dimmer switch started to fail after about a year in use. The light blinks off, you have to fiddle with the rotary switch until it decides to work again. It’s gotten to the point where it happens every time I use it and for the most part it doesn’t work until it decides it wants to come on again. The bad part about this is lighting is the main, daily feature of the lamp. It is a lamp first and foremost, with the handy feature of the magnifier which I also use often – but not as often as I use it for illumination of my work desk. So I might try fiddling with the rotary switch to see if I can get it to work, even if not dimmable, but when I do have to order another light, it won’t be another one of these. I might as well try to see if another brand will last longer.Update 7 Aug 2023: One of my many hats is that of an electrical/electronics engineer, so I took the lamp apart to investigate the fault in the rotary dimmer switch. It appears to be a faulty solder joint or broken wire in the transformer soldered onto the circuit board but nothing that is visible, even with the magnification lens of the lamp. It’s not worth the effort to take the circuit board apart, so I ordered a new lamp from a different manufacturer. I’ll probably keep this one but install in in another location where the lamp is not required as the primary function. It’s unfortunate as the 24 watt illumination capacity is not a common spec for mag lamps like these. Very disappointing. [...]