XHP70 Living Room Light?

Anyone know if there is an indoor light that has an XHP70 in it at about the same watts as the turbo mode on the L6? Reason I ask is because I bounced my L6 in turbo off the ceiling and my wife was very impressed at how our living room glowed. She loved the 5000k and says that color and strength would be the perfect living room light for her if I can find one inverted so it points upward. I guess I could attempt to build one myself with a decorative looking heatsink, etc but would be nice if someone did already.

How big is the room? 4000 lumens is a lot for a room? That would be equivalent to 5 60w incandescent bulbs? Generally speaking already made LED light bulbs are some what efficient compared to flashlight LEDS usually around 1w=80-100 lumen. So they do well not as good as flashlight but close.

You could retrofit a XHP70 into a bulb but it may be a bit hard to get the right beam pattern. You are more likely to find a COB LED inside a standard bulb. They can handle higher voltages.

IT’S better to use many leds with smaller power than using A BIG LED
imagine sometime you accidentally look at the led, well, basically you are blind for a moment

He would probably use a diffuser or frosted lamp cover, not just the bare LED…

yeah, of course he will need to if he using XHP70, but using multi-led like XP-g3, the light will be more floody
i will use xp-g3 high cri in this case

Yeah, running a XHP70 at high current to get 4000+lm will reduce it’s lifespan a lot and it produces a ton of heat.
I think the XP-G3 or new XP-L would work better for room lighting.

The XPG series are made for light fittings. I would still use a COB style LED. I might pull apart a LED bulb i have to check out what is inside.

That’s true too, you can get COBs that run directly on 110v.
Although they usually cost a lot (or maybe it was just the ones I was looking at)

Thanks for all the replies. What my wife liked about the XHP70 was that it felt like the sun was shinning in the living room, but it is a small room, maybe 240sqft max. Will look at the other LED options many of you mentioned here and see what might work.

The main thing I take from your post is the attraction to how the light looked when bounced off the ceiling. I assume you had it setting on a table.

From such a low point such as on a table, a single floody light can light most of the ceiling of an average sized room. But this placement and point of emission is not ideal for a normal room light, as typically with up lights you want the source of the light to be above eye level, so that you don’t see the source of it when sitting or standing.

In my living room I have a pole uplamp that is 6ft tall.
It illuminates a portion of the room well but does not have the same moody effect as setting a flashlight on the coffee table in the middle of the room. Even though the lamp and flashlight make similar lumens.

You could just use a pole style uplamp with a bright LED bulb in it.
But the difference is it will likely be placed in a corner, and it’s light source will be closer to the ceiling than a flashlight ceiling bounce from a table. The effect is lost.

What style lights do you have now in the room?

How about downlights? Using LEDs.

I am more a functional person i hate down lights because of the maintenance but they do look nice. I think with LED technology downlights have come a long way.

Yes, I did place it unrealistically low right on the top of the coffee table. That is why it looked so good bouncing of the ceiling and flowing down the walls. Very sleuth of you to figure that out! Bummer really as it would be quite difficult to re-create that effect. Still going to play around with a few ideas to see if I can create that effect for her.

A 50w halogen bulb in a clear vertical glass cylinder. Because it's nearly winter up here and we almost never see the sun for months, very often I turn on my 50W, 6500 lumen LED work light and that works for creating a very cheerful winter indoors, but the light itself is just that, a work light and I just have it sitting on the floor.

You would like to have better color rendering for a room light. See this thread: High CRI led bulbs

If you want a cooler light of about ~4000k, with a high CRI I would recommend the Osrams 4000k 95CRI with high R9 value.

Higher than 4000k is not good for living rooms, and lower than 90CRI is also not good for living rooms. So this is the closest you can get to a pleasant cool light that renders colors as it should. (You would need 3 of these with a 30-40w driver)

4000 lumens really isn’t that much light for a living room. It would be in the same ballpark as 2 4’ LED strip lights. By comparison, fluorescent tubes (I understand you’re not interested in fluorescent) would put out slightly more but use quite a bit more energy.

I used to do electrical engineering work a long time ago. In computer rooms, etc… we would spec indirect lighting. Some times they would be inverted tube lighting systems suspended from the ceilings and/or bare lamp strip lights mounted in indirect wall mounted light soffits.

We have large 4 lamp 4’ fluorescent (retrofitted with LED tubes) fixtures in our living room for when guests are over. but generally, I prefer indirect lighting to direct lighting and to achieve this at home, I use LED bulbs in torchier style floor mounted lights. The bulbs I use output about 800 lumens and fit in standard screw sockets. The torchiers I use have opaque shades which allow some direct light. If you wanted to go completely indirect, I imagine you could fashion some sort of foil shield, but if you mounted it inside the bulb area, you’d need to be very careful of not creating anything which could possible cause a short. Then again, foil outside the shade would look pretty ugly. Painting the interior of the shade white would be a reasonable compromised in my opinion, but you’d look efficiency.

Perhaps you could retrofit some torchiers, convert for low voltage. This would reduce the risk should a short occur. If you could get the right tint, P60 drop-ins might not be a bad option.

Sorry, didn’t see the 240 sqft size. 4k lumens might be overkill. Sometimes I ceiling bounce my BLF A6 and that produces very nice results (before it gets too hot). Another option if you are looking for an indirect solution are wall mounted sconces. To test results, I’ve used magnets to attach some of my lights to the dry wall screws.

BTW, one thing I really like about the Jetbeam Jet-1 MK is that the tail is threaded to match a tripod. This makes for an easy temporary floor mounted indirect light.

What I did in the bedroom was to put up some crown molding with the top of it 6” from the ceiling. Then I just dropped some rgb + ww LED strips into it. It’s very nice indirect lighting and I have complete control over the intensity and color from my phone. You could also go with remote control or wall mounted options as well.

Yes, ceiling-bounced floody flashlights, from table-height, give a fantastic lighting effect. It practically eliminates shadows, and makes everything appear much softer under the light. It’s hard to get that effect with standard household lighting. You might be able to do something similar with wall-mounted lights directed upwards to bounce light off the ceiling at an angle. Kind of like you see in some movie theaters or museums.

I don’t find the flashlight distracting when I bounce it, as long as I’m not standing in the direct path of the spill.

It is not hard at all. And the light type is very good:



All the lights that I have are ceiling bounce.

It’s simply the best way to light a room.
You need white ceiling (and walls), but white is the obvious choice for a ceiling anyway.