Angle adapter widget for outdoor light fixture?

trader_4 · 2020-12-30T18:12:39+00:00

I'm replacing two motion activated outdoor lights. The old ones wereHeath- Zenith halogen with the dual bright feature. That's where theycome on at dusk for 4 or 6 hours at maybe 30% intensity to provideaccent lighting. At night if there is motion anytime, they come on full.So, I'm replacing them with LED. First problem is that almost all theLED ones just put out 5000 temp harsh light, even if they put out lessthan full, it's still harsh and ugly. Next is that these have to go undera soffit and while some of these lights claim to be mountable eitheron a wall or under a soffit, they really don't point right when mountedunder a soffit. They wind up pointing to the ground close to wherethey are mounted, at best, instead of lighting an area 25 ft out.Next problem is the ones that are allegedly usableunder a soffit are meant to be installed on a 90 deg soffit and mysoffit follows the roof pitch, which is 22 deg on one roof. The otheris less, maybe 15 deg. After searching, the best light I foundare these, that Lowes stocks: allow you to adjust the color of the low accent lighting, which sounds really nice. And the heads are adjustable for use undera soffit as much as any are adjustable.So, I'm looking for an adapter that can go as an interposer betweenthe fixture and electrical box so the fixture mounts horizontal, 90 deginstead of 90 - 22 deg, etc. One box is 4" round, other is stdrectangular type. I could replace the rectangular one if needed.The interposer needs to have an angle of at least 22 deg. If it'smore, like 33 deg I think it would work better, helping make it sothe light heads can be positioned facing out, away from the housemore.I haven't really started to look for the interposer widget, but thoughtI'd ask here is anyone knows of ones that would work. White orpaintable white, angle of 22 min, more maybe 33 to even 45 mightbe better. If there was something you could cut to whatever angleyou want that might be good too. Anyone know of...

Dec 30, 2020 Last reply: 5 years ago 20 Replies

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Never mind.....

Just got off the phone with Jasco. That's the way the stupid thing is designed. When accent lighting is on, it will not respond to motion and go into full brightness security light mode. I had Heath/Zenith ones previously and they had accent mode and when motion was detected, then they went to full brightness. This is really dumb. With one more switch, they could have had it selectable to either of those two ways of operation.

I can see where in some applications you would not want it to respond to motion when accent lighting is on. Like if you have it in your backyard, like to hang out there after dark with mosquitoes, want the accent lighting, but don't want it going to full brightness when you move. But IMO there are more applications where you want it to respond and go to full on, like when a car pulls up, you go out at night so it lights up the whole area better so you can see, etc. I guess I can live with it though, since it's perfect in all other respects. I'll just set it for 6 hours of accent. Now I have to get another one for the other end of the house, where the roof/soffit slope is greater and see if it can work there too.