Reasonably priced LED yard light ('wow')..any others out there?

I am following every word. I like what you are doing.

Thanks my friend. I follow your adventures as well and learned in the process. Too many projects this spring so I decided to bust my finger all up and put them all on hold. It will get up on that pole laying in the driveway (still) soon enough as I’m eager to see what it looks like. Cutting the cable and going back to the antenna/simpler days of old right above this new light is a motivator in and of itself.
We’ll see…

…in the meantime, I went to Home Depot and picked up 2 small socket extensions. I had previously purchased a 100,000 L corncob at Menards on a whim (sale price was $52 if remember). Screwed all 3 in to a standard two bulb floodlight style motion light (had to support it a bit at the fixture deflector’s edge) This should get me by until I’m all healed up and the Westgate can (finally) shine.

…I would say that a 100,000 lumen corncob might not be the most efficient way to light up an area but that it does the job in a pinch. Directional shielding or just plain shieldng your view of it is obviously needed. It throws light a lot farther than expected and some nice shadows in terms of any movement through the coverage area.

Lost all sense of reason/frugality/(not to mention) pledges made and purchased the following today:
(1) PN# SK618-601X outdoor rated control which senses motion (turns on/off and has an adjustable timer), is remotely dimmable and which can be manually controlled (off/on) through PN# SK618RC. The remote is evidently RF controlled and should go through walls.

The above was what I was told these two part numbers would do for the Westgate light above.

Again, we’re back to ‘we’ll see’…. :slight_smile:

Please check out my free Soraa give a way

free Soraa bulbs

I put 4 of these up along with motion sensors at my house. 2 in the front, 2 in the back.

2,400 lumens each and all you do is swap out bulbs. :+1:

…amazing that we’ve gotten to the point of swapping these higher lumen bulbs in while forgetting about replacing them anytime soon. The rub seems to be these bulbs at $20 some odd each versus the 10,000 lumen corncobs at around $50 (on sale).

These were reasonably priced, free!
My brothers son is doing a retrofit of stadium lights at a ball field. He is replacing these 1500 Watt - BT56 - Metal Halide fixtures with LED’s.

There were 13 available to me but I only took 3.

It took me awhile to determine that they ran on 240VAC. Here they are on the floor of a commercial building
that has 120VAC 3 phase. To get the full 240VAC I had to connect a booster to up the voltage across 2 legs of the 3 phase from 208V to the full 240V. These things are bright! About 75,000 lumen each and 4000K.

The bulbs, transformers and capacitors are huge.
Believe it or not, those 1500W bulbs are only about $23 each.

Now the hard part, figure out why I need these and use them to fill that need :laughing:

This looks interesting. 16,500 lumens, supposedly.


” 150W Led Flood Light, Missbee Thinner Lighter Outdoor Security Light, 16500Lm, Cold White 6000-6500K, IP67 Waterproof, Landscape Spotlights for garage, yard, lawn and Garden “:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07889QMBJ/ref=olp_product_details?\_encoding=UTF8&me=&th=1

I like free. :slight_smile:
What a treat to get an inside look at how these operate. Hard to imagine that the bulbs are anywhere near that price! (I pay at least $18 for just my 175 watt version that I can’t fit a LED bulb in to).
If you don’t ask your wife that question….it will never require an answer…. :wink:
Thanks for sharing.

You have definitely one-upped all the posters so far on that one if it even comes close to doing the job over time.
Nice find!

Is that a 150 watt equivalent output or does it use 150 watts ?

It uses 150 watts. If you purchase one please report back as I am rethinking a lot of things at that price point/ease of installation.

Are there any adaptors out there squatty enough or could you pick up one of those larger socketed LEDs (corncobs; yet the larger socketed ones seem pricey for some reason) and fit one underneath the glass? (bypassing the ballast). 100 or 150 watts versus 1500 ‘if’ they last (the big question). My $52 FIET (?) 10,000 L cheapy from Menards is still plugging along every night on a motion that switches on a lot (so far)…

Against my better judgment and all sense of both reason and “if-it’s-too-good-to-be-true-it-isn’t” I (justifiably) blamed pennzy (above) and went with the 100 watt/warm version of who-knows-what (pennzy, my wife would like to talk to you…). :wink:

There comes a point (at these prices) where there is not much else to do but have faith in your fellow man and hope that you are supporting his or her efforts to feed his family too. I’ll try to report back if nobody else was/is as gullible as I apparently am. :slight_smile:

Keep in mind that the “only 1 left” sucker-you-in warning immediately changed to “In Stock” after my order so your mileage may vary (I want to say that the delivery was June 20th?). I’m also concerned that I didn’t receive an Amazon confirmation right away so that might be telling this story in and of itself (never had that happen yet not familiar with the ins/outs of their process).

…order confirmation came through. Delivery (supposedly) by the 20th.

Please jump in here if you’ve made this (foolish?) leap of faith yourself.

I’ve not made the foolish jump, but I am curious to hear about this light!

-Garry

Flashlights at increasingly efficient levels, much more pleasant tints and at ridiculously low prices (delivered) has been great. To light your entire property at ‘x’ times the current level with similar tints and at almost 1/2 the power consumed for the prices that we’ve been talking about?
Hard to believe.

Hooked it up and it works. How long with that little heat sinking is anybody’s guess. The tint seems warmer as advertised. 6 LEDS in an array times several rows. I probably won’t last until dark yet it’s pretty bright. Wire leads are of a light gauge.
It’s a crap shoot at best yet obviously not vapor ware. These might be paired with an old (rewired) motion detector light for intermittent use. That amount of light ‘instant on’ would certainly get someone’s attention.