Can an LED floodlight possibly be as bright as a real floodlight?
The fixture will be mounted about 24 feet above the ground so it has to be bright.
The people who rate the one below say it's very bright, but have they ever looked into a 100 watt incandescent floodlight? It's probably blinding, so I'm not sure the raters' opinions are really comparisons.
The one below at Home Depot from Lithonia Lighting says it has "2 efficient 10-watt LEDs" where the two incandescent lights would otherwise be. The picture shows two circular devices, each divided into 3 120-degree parts, with what looks like a small concave reflector with an LED in the middle of each part. I guess they are saying the 3 together use 10 watts. Are there really 3 1/3 watt LEDs, and is 10 watts from an LED as much light as 100 watts incandescent?? That's what the floodlights use now, 200 watts total per fixture.
The maker's website
I like the idea of LED, because it's very difficult to change the bulb on one of my two** double-flloodlights.***, but not if it's not going to light up the area.
Mostly what I'm looking for is a light that won't go on because of the wind, but will go on when a person walks by.
This one, despite the high price, $116, only has 6 LEDs (2 by HD's counting method!).
The same thing with three sets of three LEDs is 150 dollars, implying that one group of three and the holder is $34 The same thing with photocell but no motion sensor is 98 dollars, impliying that they're only charging 18 dollars for the motion sensor and most of the price is for the LEDs.
Thanks.
Details that the electronics guys may find boring. Hey, everyone may find them boring!
**The other floodlight in the back of the house I put in right under my bedroom window, so I can just lean out and change the bulb. I wired it from the receptacle just below the window, so little effort to run the wires, and it sure looks better than several of my neighbors' who let an electrician or handyman run surface Romex or conduit from the back porch light, most of whom no longer have a back porch light.*** It's chest high when I'm in the attic, so that's about 24 feet (?, two story house, plus attic. The first floor is about a foot above the ground.) and I don't have a ladder that long. What I've done to adjust the light sensor and change the bulb is to unscrew the winged folding toggle nut inside the attic, remove the big washer, disconnect the Romex and tie a string to the end of the wire, and lower the whole fixture to the ground. Do my work there, and pull tthe fixture back up. The hard parts are getting the romex through its hole, and gettting the long screw to go though its assigned hole (which is a lot bigger than the screw, but still not easy to find) so I can screw the toggle nut back on. I've done this twice with no more than 10 minutes each time trying to get the screw through, but I fear some time it will take me hours, and it woudl be nice if it used LED's and never burned out. But at 23 feet high, the light has to be bright!!