Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

Thanks for posting all the LED bulb sale info dchomak. No luck so far here in VA. I don’t think my store has any of those bulbs! The website shows stock (at normal price) for the MR16, but I couldn’t find it in store. The rest do not show stock (and I didn’t see them either).

Grabbed a couple of those 8W M16 bulbs. They were hard to find as they were a bit buried in one of the clearance racks. They were marked $29.xx, but rung up for $7.53.

I'm curious if the "120W" has 14 - 15 XT-E's for $2 more, but not enough to risk $10.

Right now I am across the street from the West Hartford store. I found 6 more of the work lights! I also grabbed the last 4 M16’s they had. I asked, and the Bristol, CT store has 43 more, also on clearance for $7.53.

I am thinking of putting 12 of these in a 9 inch Cyclops flashlight head and running them off the 40v Ryobi chain saw battery pack I found in the recycle bin.
Look what I found in the recycle bin
The lights would be wired in a 3S4P configuration. That 40V pack contains 20 Samsung IMR 13Q’s. The pack is new and the cells are perfect. I don’t have the charger for it, but I could manually balance charge it.

If anybody wants any of these clearance items, PM me, and we can work something out.

Oops! Turns out that I missed an entire aisle dedicated to down lighting, fluorescents, and… a clearance rack! They had a bunch of lamps similar to what dchomak posted, with similar prices.

Yay! I feel like a winner! Got me some HD clearance lights as well as some heavy duty timers (not posted). Plenty of those MR16's at my store.

-Garry

Did you get the dual socket 7 day digital timer?
And you need to tell us what lights you got.

BTW, yesterday I found a bunch of the blue womens glove, loose not stapled together as the set of 3 pairs. I found 1 loose tag also and brought them up to the counter. I suggested they should just sell them all for what the normal clearance price would be for 3 pair. They agreed.
They scanned for a penny! I got 5 pair and 1 extra right hand for 1 penny!

Timers have 3 prong grounded receptacles and are rated 15A. Digital $3.83, mechanical $2.53. Didn't see the work lights, but found your timers.
Oh, and my "clearance area" was in the electrical aisle by the bulk cable.
-Garry

I passed up the "90 watt" flood light.
-Garry

There is a very good chance the bulbs would fry. A lot of drivers do funky thinks as they start up and the input voltage won’t be evenly split between the bulbs. There is a chance one bulb could see the enough of the 40 volts to fry.

I actually had decided against it anyway. I put one in an 18V (21) power tool light and it is incredibly bright. Very warm tint though and not very practical because of all the heat. Today I returned 10 of them and kept 4 to play with. It was a nice fantasy while it lasted though.
Your post tells me I dodged a bullet on this one, Thanks.

Yes, that timer you got is twice as good. 3 prong and 7 day. I already have plenty of 7 day timers, I used a couple in my landscape lighting.

The programming on this one is so difficult I have to keep a copy of the instructions with it so I can re-read them when I need to change it. It too was on clearance when I got them and I think the reason they cleared them out is because no one could figure out how to program it.

Programming, that reminds me. Yesterday as I was walking thru Home Depot I came across two employees at the Wink Home Automation display. That’s a system where you can put lights, appliances in your home on your network and control them with a app on your smart phone anywhere. It seems the one had just set up the display and configured everything, but couldn’t get it to work. He was asking the other for help. I walked by and asked if they minded if I just watched, could be nice. They said OK and I watched them for 30 minutes as they attempted to get it configured. It’s supposed to be as easy as downloading the app, and then from within the app, use the included barcode scanner to scan each device to configure it. I was impressed, except that the second guy couldn’t get it working either.
After they gave up, I told them I would keep an eye on it for when it too goes on clearance. :wink:

Since we’re occasionally a little off-topic, a couple of HD bargains today. (I don’t know if these were just single-store only, or system-wide. YMMV.)

(retractable fall arrest box… includes a locking steel carabiner, all for $59.06)

The only thing that’s unsettling about it is that it says, “…No recertification is required with this product as it is considered a disposable unit.” Hmmm. ((edit: just realized that it’s probably the ‘screamer’ — the stitched together/fall apart under stress bit — that’s ‘disposable’.))

If fall arrest isn’t your bag, how about avoiding being electrocuted?

(box what beeps at a circuit breaker in your panel that corresponds to the plug you’ve filled with the other beepy thing. Only mildly cheaper than usual at $29.97)

I wonder if a bit of the frosting spray inside the tube where the lights are would make the light smoother or does it have a harsh hotspot?

Cheap find there though…awesome!

Many of the bulbs I posted about earlier just went to a penny. If you can find any, they are likely to ring up for a penny also.

This is the sum total of all the LED bulbs I got for a penny each. Sum total for all in the picture is 71 cents.
I got these over a period of 3 days at 4 different Home Depots, in fact I found 21 of then today October 19, so they are still out there. Many of the clearance items I posted about a couple of weeks ago on the Home Depot Deal alert thread, if still in a store, will ring up for a penny. Not only these LED bulbs, but the cell phone chargers, digital timers, etc. will ring up for a penny IF you can find any.

aye carumba!!!
you should start a reselling business!

In light of my recent windfall, this build is back on. Yes I had decided against it and returned 10 of the bulbs at $7.53 each, but I bought back 21 at a penny each. In the build I will use a mix of the 525 lumen bulbs that are warm white and some 300 lumen spots. There will be total of 12 used, at a cost of 12 CENTS. To protect my investment, :stuck_out_tongue: I will NOT use the 3S4P configuration running 40V, but rather 12 parallel using the original SLA 12V 4AH battery. Keeping it simple and the light is already wired for charging and switching of high and low beam.

wow thats the best deal i seen so far on LED bulbs. :slight_smile:

i wish we could get that in canada

Our Home-Depots usually suk for good deals lately.