IKEA - TERTIAL Work Lamp, Silver Color

I didn't use this as it was intended... I need a cheap overhead camera mount for youtube videos, and I found a tutorial video about how to convert this. And it worked great. The springs on the body are very strong and move easily, but also stay perfectly in place, which was exactly what I needed it for.

Worked great

Just bought this in store for cheap, works great! I mounted it with screws instead of the clamp as my desk doesn't have a place for me to use the clamp with. After tightening up some of the nuts it holds it's position with ease and easily allows movement.

This is both a review and a suggestion of improvement (DIY) for the TERTIAL #801.953.72, silver lamp cost $12.99 - in IKEA store. This lamp is excellent for its price. The functionality/price ratio is very high, this is why the 5 star rating. The electrical twist-switch (black knob) at the top of the lamp shade is really hard to turn even for an adult. Improve the switch grip by manually press-fitting a drilled toothpaste cap over the existing black knob switch button. Hope the attached photo helps.

Bought this item at IKEA last weekend for $8.99. Wished I had gotten two of them, so I checked to see if I could get another one online. IKEA doesn't sell them online, so I checked Amazon. Definitely not going to pay triple the price and then pay for shipping on top of it! Seems like a halfway decent lamp, but this is a terrible deal.

I owned the earlier version of this lamp with a twist switch on the socket that stuck out through the shade. Over time this switch got progressively harder to turn until it finally quit working altogether. Additionally, the springs on the arms eventually failed to hold the lamp in an upright position after only a few months of use (the image of the lamp on the product page is the typical position it would hold at). I would be skeptical of any form of this lamp.

Arm doesn't easily stay placed. There should be an easy adjustment for tightening the arm into desired position.

I have two of these now, both mounted on the front edge of a shelf above a workbench. (I have a white LED bulb in one, and a UV LED bulb in the other.) The arm action is great; they generally stay where they're useful. Don't miss the two springs for the upper arm that come, unattached, in the package. There are screw holes in the four corners of the lamp's base. I recommend using screws rather than using the vise-grip mounting bracket, partly because the bracket takes up space and gets in the way around the mounting point. I used four #12 x 3/4" screws. (Be sure to drill small pilot holes before driving the screws.) I have to take off one star because these lamps have a very unhelpful tendency to come out of their plastic bases when yanked around. I overcame this by inserting an inch or two of metal rod into the bottom of the metal part of each lamp, for reinforcement. Sadly, California has made it illegal to sell these in state because they don't come packaged with Compact Fluorescent Lamp bulbs. But they are great lamps for working on projects. I've attached a photo showing the mounting point of my two Tertial lamps.

スイッチが天辺に無いので、そういう製品の多くに「不便」とか、いろいろなどちらかと言えば不満なレビューが多かったので正直やや迷った。 とは言えこれのデザイン自体は気に入ったし、値段が安かったのも非常に魅力的だった。もう1つは、天辺にスイッチがある場合、それの故障は致命的であるという点である（何年か前まで使っていたアーム式スタンドはまさに天辺のロータリースイッチ辺りで故障し使えなくなった。原因が単なる断線なら直せなくはないがスイッチの損壊なら買うほうが安い）。 届いた現品で、若干オチを付けるとすれば見慣れない組み立て方の固定クランプだろう。位置決め中に修正しようとするとバラけたりする。脚単体だったら多分星は３つ。互換性のある別部品があったらそちらに替えてしまうだろう。 尤もクランプを一度位置決めしたら普通場所替えしないので、さほど問題ではない。 さて、スイッチをどうするか？ 実はなんてことはない。アームの底から垂れているコードを一度持ち上げてクランプに立っている台の周りでゆるく一周させてから下にに降ろすだけ。 これでスイッチはテーブルの天板辺りに収まるので、スイッチのためにかがむ云々ということはなくなる。

よく見ると電源コードの途中にスイッチが付いている。 しかし傘部分に付いているオーム電気に軍配が上がる。 評価は２→３に変更。