25-watt (2,722 lumen) and 42-watt (4,109 lumen) $99 street light from cree is here

[okyeung]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57597262-1/cree-\$99-led-streetlight-could-come-to-a-city-near-you/

[RaceR86]

Good stuff!

Im not a fan of making one picture look as good as possible, and the other as crap as possible in order to promote the lighting.

Funny how all nearby buildings and basically everything, places that are not even near the road suddenly went from washed out yellow to nice colors with high contrast when they got new lights on the highway. :p

[Bort]

i bet a few of us would buy it, but where could it be bought for $99 not in bulk

[Pulsar]

i did a quick search and it seems they dont mention what emitter is used in it... did i miss something?

[luvlites]

Cree stock over the last year:

[Pulsar]

should have bought stock in cree instead of cree in flashlights

[Bort]

@Pulsar

should have bought stock in cree instead of cree flashlights

+∞

[oRAirwolf]

My BTU Shocker has been measured at 4760 lumens by Tom E in his calibrated light box. Cree’s top of the line street light puts out 4109 lumens. Have I taken this hobby too far? :~

[Pulsar]

@oRAirwolf

My BTU Shocker has been measured at 4760 lumens by Tom E in his calibrated light box. Cree’s top of the line street light puts out 4109 lumens. Have I taken this hobby too far? :~

no, we are R&D for cree it seems

and the one pictured uses 4 emitters, not three

[Bort]

@Pulsar

@oRAirwolf

My BTU Shocker has been measured at 4760 lumens by Tom E in his calibrated light box. Cree’s top of the line street light puts out 4109 lumens. Have I taken this hobby too far? :~

no, we are R&D for cree it seems 

and the one pictured uses 4 emitters, not three 

i wonder what the cri of these streetlights are
also you made me realize they probably won’t run from 120VAC

[Pulsar]

http://www.cree.com/lighting/products/outdoor/streetlights/xsp-series-streetlight

min 70 cri

and from the pdf it looks like it will run 120-480v

[sorotantaz]

here the local government start to use solar powered streetlight however the still use old fashion 250W philips metal halide light bulb from the appearance. tech adaption is quite slow…maybe take few years just like transition from common xenon flashlight to hi power LED. even now the hi power LED as flashlight still not that common…

[Bort]

@sorotantaz

here the local government start to use solar powered streetlight however the still use old fashion 250W philips metal halide light bulb from the appearance. tech adaption is quite slow…maybe take few years just like transition from common xenon flashlight to hi power LED. even now the hi power LED as flashlight still not that common…

cree initially sold led street lights at the same price as regular street lights, but with the feature that replacement costs would be reduced so much that it pays for itself on the first non replacement vs regular streetlights

[Bort]

@Pulsar

http://www.cree.com/lighting/products/outdoor/streetlights/xsp-series-streetlight

min 70 cri

and from the pdf it looks like it will run 120-480v

looking good so far

[sorotantaz]

@Bort

cree initially sold led street lights at the same price as regular street lights, but with the feature that replacement costs would be reduced so much that it pays for itself on the first non replacement vs regular streetlights

that promise is not a good sales charm.
people tend to see initial price to be paid as the only cost and sometime forget the subsequent maintenance/replacement cost.

and manufacturer seizes that opportunity to still offer led bulb at higher price than regular CFL/halogen bulb (for retail market).
at the end people will retreat due to the initial high price and slow down the tech adoption.
hopefully it doesn’t happen on wholesale for the public infrastructure.

[Bort]

@sorotantaz

@Bort

cree initially sold led street lights at the same price as regular street lights, but with the feature that replacement costs would be reduced so much that it pays for itself on the first non replacement vs regular streetlights

that promise is not a good sales charm.
people tend to see initial price to be paid as the only cost and sometime forget the subsequent maintenance/replacement cost.

and manufacturer seizes that opportunity to still offer led bulb at higher price than regular CFL/halogen bulb (for retail market).
at the end people will retreat due to the initial high price and slow down the tech adoption.
hopefully it doesn’t happen on wholesale for the public infrastructure.

at $99 i think they will get more customers

[blitzwing]

@Pulsar

should have bought stock in cree instead of cree in flashlights

Ha! :bigsmile:

[Slewflash]

@oRAirwolf

My BTU Shocker has been measured at 4760 lumens by Tom E in his calibrated light box. Cree’s top of the line street light puts out 4109 lumens. Have I taken this hobby too far? :~

We’ve only just scratched the surface my friend.

[Slewflash]

@leaftye

If it really sells for $99 or less, this will likely end up replacing the flood light over the garage. It won’t be as bright as the sodium light already there, but it’ll get used more often since we won’t have to wait forever for it to get bright.

It might end up in the backyard too.

And because it’s an LED you can flick the switch on and off as many times as you want without fear of the bulb dying. I remember I was once told not to flick the switch on and off repeatedly because it was bad for the bulb.
Now we can have it strobe and have some kick ass raves on the street!

[feilox]

Up here in Wisconsin, they have experimented with LED street lights. Although they only replace the ones that go out alot with white ones. Also for some dumb reasons my town decided to go for some retro orange ones. Not sure if they are led or what/no but def. not old tech.

There’s only 1 problem. Up here in Wisconsin where it snows, whiteouts during snowstorm will be like 2x worser. Something akin to like turning on your LED in a dusty room or going outside and throwing dirt in the air and shining it.

The white LEDs will not work well in rain cuz the look like shiny beads of black. The roads are worst on dimmly painted medians with fading dividing lines and fresh dark black tops. How do I know? I have some HID 6000k headlights and there’s this stretch of road I live on I avoid during snow storms and rainstorm, cuz there’s no streetlights and no median (thankfully it’s divided 2 lane highway).

My closest analogy would be driving into a disco club. Not sure but those yellow/orange sodium lights don’t attract bugs like the white LED ones around town do. 4,000 lumens is very good but dang imagine looking up it as u pass or outside underneath the light, as soon as you pass it into some darker areas, gonna take u awhile for your eyes to readjust again.