Why do you only supply a 2-year warranty for the LED underwater light?

Why do you only supply a 2-year warranty for the LED underwater light?
Different led underwater light manufacturers provide different warranty periods for the same type of products (such as 1 year vs. 2 years or even longer), which involves a variety of factors, and the warranty period is not exactly equivalent to product reliability. What is the reason for the difference in the warranty period of the LED underwater lighting?

1. Brand positioning and marketing strategy
-High-end brands (e.g. Philips, Hayward): Longer warranties (2-5 years) are often offered to demonstrate confidence in quality and support a higher price.
-Low-cost brand: Shorten the warranty (1 year) to reduce after-sales costs and attract price-sensitive customer

2. Cost and risk control
-Material and process differences: Manufacturers that use higher grade seals (such as silicone rings vs. ordinary rubber), corrosion-resistant PCB coatings, have lower failure rates and dare to provide longer warranties.
-After-sales cost accounting: With each year of warranty extension, manufacturers need to set aside more budget for repair/replacement (usually 5-15% of the selling price).

3. Supply chain and quality control ability
-Mature manufacturers: With a stable supply chain and strict quality control of the underwater LED lights(such as 100% waterproof testing), the failure rate is predictable and dares to promise a longer warranty.

-New Factory/Small factory: May be due to unstable quality control, forced to shorten the warranty to avoid high after-sales costs.

4. Industry standards and competitive pressure
In the LED pool light industry, 1-2 years of warranty is a common range, but if competitors generally provide 2 years, other manufacturers may be forced to follow up, or they will lose customers.

Shenzhen Heguang Lighting Co., Ltd provides a 2-year warranty on the LED underwater lights for pools. We can understand that some new factories or small factories try to win orders by offering a much longer warranty time to clients. In this situation, you have to be aware of the following risk :
1. False label warranty, actual claim refused: Put tough clauses in the contract (e.g., “Installation by an official technician is valid”).
The common faults are classified as “man-made damage” (such as “scale blockage is not guaranteed”).

2. Short-term marketing, long-term broken promises: New LED underwater landscape light manufacturers may attract the first customers with a long warranty, but do not reserve enough after-sales funds, and then close down or change the brand to evade responsibility.

3. Reduce configuration and transfer risk: Using cheap materials, the “game of probability” bets that most users will not be repaired within the warranty period

Generally speaking, the warranty period is the manufacturer’s confidence in their products, but it can also be a marketing tool. Rational choice should be combined with quality assurance clauses, third-party certification, historical reputation of comprehensive judgment, especially vigilant against “against the rules of the industry” long-term commitment. For products with high safety requirements, such as LED pool lights, it is recommended to give priority to brands with transparent technology and a mature after-sales system, rather than simply pursuing a warranty period.