LED External Wall Lights - -Power?

[thescullster]

Has anyone used one ot these?

I am looking to illuminate a path and bin area alongside a 5m kitchen wall.

Would 2 of these about 2.3m off the ground 3m apart be sufficient?

I have no idea how much light a 1.2W LED provides.

Thanks

Phil

[JohnW]

I would say no. A local resident has several of these lighting his boundary (with the road) fence spaced probably at 6ft centres. They are the double variety (up and down light) and give good illumination to the fence but not a lot else.

John

[Martin Brown]

OK for a handheld torch (although you can now get 7W ones).

Not a lot of use in an external environment. 3W ones would probably hack it. Single emitter better than cluster of small LEDs.

[Jim Hawkins]

I bought one of these for just that purpose:- LED motion light from

Listed in their Home/Lighting section. It has a motion sensor, so only turns on when someone is in range. On/off switch for turning it off during daylight if you want to. Uses four AA batteries (still working after three weeks use). Comes with double-sided stick strips. I found the motion sensor doesn't work through glass, so no good inside a window, but works fine with the unit stuck on the outside. . Just looked on the website, and see they're out of stock at the moment, but taking orders for next batch.

Jim Hawkins

[Dave Liquorice]

Suffcient for what? Not falling over the bins or able to do something other than open one and lob a bag in?

The crucial bit of information that you need, beam angle, is missing. How ever most GU10's are fairly narrow. I reckon you'd just have two fairly bright pools of light. You don't really want a narrow beam angle, if you can get more height one of the 10 W LED floods might be a better bet. The fitting you link to is only IP44, fine for sheltered outside but exposed might kill it fairly quickly.

[ARW]

So the OP needs something more dirctional eg

or something with a better beam spread eg

I am looking at buying that one for my house

[GMM]

1.2W sounds fairly meagre to me: Admittedly, my experience is limited to indoor LED lamps, but the 12W ones I bought from Toolstation (1050lm) are prety good replacements for traditional ~75W tungsten bulbs. Other variants show this wattage as delivering fewer lumens (~800) and I get the impression that the relationship between power and light delivered is not very linear, from looking through the various specs, with the light output dropping off at lower powers. I'd have thought the plan here would give an impression of where the wall they're mounted on is but not much more, depending on what other light sources are around.