My dad is looking for a spotlight for his roughly 8 foot tall flagpole in front of his house. He keeps buying halogen ones that keep burning out. It would need be waterproof and plug into an outlet. Any ideas on what would be good? I did a quick search on DX but didn’t come up with anything.
I’m looking at LED spot from RAB but they are over $200 I think……….
So any one have any ideas ??
You are wanting something that sits on the ground and faces up at the flag, I assume? 110 volt?
Yup. I actually wouldn’t mind it attaching to the pole either so it doesn’t get covered by snow. I really could almost build him one using a scrap power supply and an XP-G + optic and make sure everything is sealed up, but there has to be something cheap out there.
txpyro may have experience with a more reasonably priced LE (there was a $10 Utilitec (?) LED standard shape bulb in another thread), but I’d also look at compact florescent floodlights . . . might pay a little more for one that will work with a dimmer to save electricity, and is outdoor rated.
About the only thing I have found budget. Everything else is very expensive. I found a lot of stuff on google searching for led outdoor spotlight.
Sorry wrong pole thread !!!
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I would look at those cheap 10W-20W “wall wash” floodlights from China/Ebay. They have them with both wall power and low voltage drivers. They are sealed and weatherproofed (yeah, right)… but the ones that I have look like they might just be. I might run some RTV into the place where the power comes in or make sure that is facing down.
Search Ebay for: LED floodlight
They even have remote controlled red/green/blue ones.
A bought a couple of really cheap ($30/pair, shipped from the US in two days) 10W/12V ones. They turned out to be 5W. The drivers were really nice potted in finned aluminum extrusion devices, so I could not mod the sense resistor. I replaced the drivers with some 10W ones, added magnets to the mounting bracket, added cigarette lighter plugs, and keep them in the cars.
DX has one similar to what Old-Lumens posted, but it’s more expensive:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/10w-3300k-700lm-warm-white-led-flood-light-85-265v-96061?item=56
Wow, those are perfect, thanks guys!
EDIT: I ended up ordering this one - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160858085007. Would like to have a light sensor on it so it’s only on at night, but this is cheap enough to give it a shot.
It will be interesting to see the results. I'm looking forward to it!
Got it today, and I’m quite impressed! I need to wire up a plug to it, but it seems like it would be quite waterproof.
Anyone know a good way to limit AC current? I want to try and run this a bit dimmer, as it will probably light up all of the trees in the yard as well as the flag.
The light might have to be rated dimmable todo what you want to do with it.
Most have a very wide voltage range like 90V to 240V and anything in between.
How many watts is your unit??
My wife wants her Giants flags lit up!!!
10W. Looks like it can go down to 85v.
It should light up the flag just fine as is.
If it’s like the ones that I got for cheap it may be only running at 5W. Mine was a 12-36V AC/DC input unit that had a 600 mA driver. I wound up swapping out the driver for one that get the full 10W out. The original drivers were potted up in a nice aluminum extrusion and could not be adjusted. I also added some disk magnets to the bracket, knobs on the bracket bolts, and a lighter plug for use in the cars.