Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

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.

Yeah, you got ME jealous when you got those DST’s for some crazy price, like $3.53 or something. I think the best we could do in the US was $12

Those were a good deal. I got 7 of them DSTs for under 6 bucks each.

Remember to send your fairy godmother a gift basket when you get a chance.

It has taken me awhile to figure this out. There are exceptions. I was once told that if a clearance item price ends with “.00” then it will not be reduced further, that is a final price until they are gone. There was once an exception to this that had me confused. Remember when the DST was on clearance in the U.S. for $12.00? That WAS supposed to be a final markdown, but at some HD’s those big lights so poorly that even at $12.00 they did not sell. Then for some strange reason it was repriced at $12.06! I now think I know what that was all about.
Another manager once told me, and the other day it was confirmed, that if a clearance item has a price that ends with “.06” then that item will be on the floor at that price for a set amount of time. After that set amount of time, if they do not sell through, they will be marked at an even lower price that ends with “.03” Then the final countdown begins If after that set amount of time, if they do not sell through, they will be set to a penny and removed from the floor, and thrown away. Unlike local store sales, where a manager has the discretion to set a sale price, these .06 and .03 sale prices seems to be done simultaneously across all stores in the U.S. Because the newer prices are set remotely and not at the store, it seems that there are times when a store or stores is caught off guard and do not remove the items in time before someone like me comes along and scoops them up. :slight_smile:
That must be why sometimes when we see a clearance item at an “.06” price, it rings up at an “.03” price. That store wasn’t on the ball and failed to update the price tags. But the new, lower price is already in the system, done remotely by corporate. And by the way, it now seems that the price does not have to end in “03” but rather “something 3”. What to keep in mind is that when you see a clearance item with a price that ends in “3”, the end is near. That’s how I caught this deal, I kept checking certain items that I was interested anytime I passed a store. I would run in, get one, and check the price at the self checkout. This time, most of the big lights were removed already, but a lot was left behind.
Also it is useful to look in weird places for forgotten items, like under shelves, behind other merchandise etc. I swear, I find stuff sometimes that has been squirreled away by an employee for harvesting later. A manager told me that if an employee was caught doing that, it would mean an immediate termination.

I almost forgot, maybe the reason why the DST went on clearance from $12.00 back UP to $12.06. I think they originally were confident that they would sell through at the clearance price of $12.00. When they didn’t, they changed their minds and put in into the spiral of death. “.06” -> “.03” to throwing away.

Damn!

Go buy a MegaMillions Ticket… you are one lucky guy!

Ps. If you do win MM just pay off my truck will ya… :bigsmile:

I'm learning to hate this thread .

I think dchomak needs to change his BLF username to "Homer" and use this as his avatar:

-Garry

a penny? Thats insane.