LED yard light needed. SMD versus COB version

Dioda · 2018-11-21T15:11:11.000Z

Hi everyone,

i need to buy a wall mounted yard light with PIR sensor. Our store has both SMD version with multiple chips or COB version with one large chip. Price wise they are almost the same. Are there any pros and cons between these versions? Which one would you go for and why?

zak.wilson · 2018-11-21T15:36:33.000Z

This decision shouldn’t be made on the basis of the design of the emitters. There are probably some other differences such as color temperature, CRI, intensity, or presence/absence of flicker. Those are much more important.

Dioda · 2018-11-22T09:54:19.000Z

Both models are the same price, same low 70 CRI, same supposedly NW tint at 4500 K. Both have same PIR sensor, difference is mainly in design.

duramax · 2018-11-22T10:30:03.000Z

so the cheap COB leds I have pretty much all flicker or act in a very random way. more expensive ones are really better, the tricky part is: how do you differentiate them? There is not always a brand or type in the item description.

Do you have any product links or are you building these lights? Which store are you looking at? HD? Lowes?

Dioda · 2018-11-22T10:45:13.000Z

The only info I could find on the COB version packaging was that the led is “Epistar Chip”.

Freedom · 2018-11-30T21:48:16.000Z

If they aren’t priced less than these and you don’t have any real aspirations or a link to your store as suggested then go to Amazon and punch in Missbee . I’ve had their 100W/10000L/warm version mounted outside with no problems to date.

hank · 2019-02-12T19:58:35.000Z

MascaratumB, the spammer’s post has been removed. You could remove your copy of it in your reply, and it will be forgotten forever.

MascaratumB · 2019-02-12T20:46:34.000Z

hank:

MascaratumB, the spammer’s post has been removed. You could remove your copy of it in your reply, and it will be forgotten forever.

Done And I shouldn’t have copied the link in first place :person_facepalming:

DOC1500 · 2019-02-15T21:27:35.000Z

I have a thread I started just above yours and got this information and purchased it yesterday. Seems like some great numbers and fantastic amount of light.

Morris 71824 Flat Panel Series 1/2” Adjustable Knuckle Mount 50W 5882 lm 3000K Bronze https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07583K6NZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_S4YzCbWB11H4V