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Outdoor LED floodlight bulbs

11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago

Looking for brand suggestions for outdoor LED floodlight bulbs to replace my standard, old-fashioned 150 watt bulbs, which I guess are not sold any longer. I'm down to my last few bulbs. Do the LED bulbs work well when it's cold outside?

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  • 11 years ago

    Yes

  • 11 years ago

    yep, check out Kichler, Cree, GE...


  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Our motion activated floodlight over a garage back door recently broke. I liked it because it took regular flood light bulbs. It was seldom used/seldom came on, so we were not concerned about the small amount of electricity used.

    We went to a box store a few days ago and for $50 bought an LED MD floodlamp (I guess bulbs included). We installed it today and just tested it this evening.

    They are supposed to be 150 Watt equivalent. The light doesn't reach out very far and what does is a sort of diffused blur, as if the flood light lenses have big thick cataracts. For example, a regular ("real") 150 W flood lamp will cast light out onto a large tree 70 feet away. With that illumination I can see the bark on the trunk and the branches. With the LED "150 W equivalent" the illumination does not reach as far and no detail like the trunk, bark or branches is discernible. The illumination is short-distanced and muddied. If I wanted to watch a bear or raccoon in a tree or lumbering across the back yard, it would be easy with the incandescent flood light set, and impossible with the LED "flood lamp" set.

    Oh, and the 'color' of the light from the LED set is harsh, cold, green-kerosene bleak white.

    Edited 10-14-2014: Thanks, ionized. I had been viewing the light "on" from the second story. I took "someone's" (smile) word for it that they were "floodlights." I've since gone outside in daylight to look at them and they are not conventional flood lights. Over each bulb is a curved rectangular diffusing lens -- sort of like sunglasses. So that explains why the light wasn't far reaching. These would probably be good for someone wanting to illuminate a driveway without imposing on neighbors or roadways. Since we need more traditional far reaching illumination, I'm going to take your suggestion and look at reviews and, of course, a bulb set up that is intended to cast the light to a distance.

    I've installed a few of the warm, dimmable LED light bulbs into some of our interior lamps and I like them very much.


  • 11 years ago

    Maybe you can find some reviews of LED floodlights. It seems like you got a particularly bad one.