Lighting to a shed

It's in the line you quoted...

Sounds uncomfortable!

It wasn't on it's way out. But yes, it is strange. It could be perception; yellow light versus white light.

Bill

It would dazzle you as you walked towards it.

Bill

That was my thought.

A string of low power lights from the house to the shed sound more ideal, a little catenary with a 12V feed from the house. We've been told it is just 5m away too.

A floodlight on the house would be a better bet.

The OP isn't helping by not giving us the true picture of what management is trying to achieve. It could be to simply draw the moths away from the house? We don't know.

Although if getting power to the shed for the light on it, you may as well also stick one in it while you are at it.

I guess so. But (if I remember correctly) it makes me wonder why - maybe

A particular problem if used in a WC used by gentlemen.

Someone very near has recently put up a small, PIR light which spills over our fence. Walking towards it (as in down the drive to the front door) night vision is totally wiped out - but it doesn't light the ground, so doesn't help in safely walking.

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And some are "professionally fitted" - "There you are madam - look how it lights up all the houses across the road!"

But when you walk back it dazzles you! :-)

Battery powered, not solar, which allows them to be mounted where most convenient.

Of course it will depend on whether the OP considers them a suitable solution or even a partial or temporary solution.

Last year I installed 3 for different OAPs. 2 over their back doors to show up any callers & give a little light to the path. The third was mounted on the inside of the gate on a 20m long pathway to show the way when she came home after dark.

Battery powered, but solar recharged. Like a great many devices.

They're not bad in cutting out the blue light from HID or LED lights.

I have used clip-ons to some success in an otherwise well lit area.

I agree.

No 'cause unless the house is a bungalow you can have the light much higher.

Tell me about it. There's a fram across the valley 3/4 of a mile away and 275' lower than us that used to have two(*) LP sodium lights on when every it is dark to illuminate up their yard. We get enough light from them to cast very decernable shadows, in fact you can probably read by them!

Most flood light are badly designed, they all ought to be designedso that you have to make special effort to send any light above the horizontal. WTF this farm wants to light up half the valley and sky I can't imagine. It's wasted light, tilt the fittings down and they'd have more light in their yard.

(*) There's only one now, perhaps one has failed...

Rifles will do that to a floodlight.

Owain

You can still get them in a range of temps from Warm white through to daylight.

FWIW I replaced a 150W linear halogen with a 30W LED flood[1], since it gave a similar theoretical lumens output. In reality I find the LED is actually quite a bit brighter, and a 20W would probably have done.

I did similar but following advice from a denizen of this group I paid about a fiver for two of the cob lights direct from aliexpress and mounted them on an offcut aluminium extrusion clipped to the ceiling. All run off an earthed 3 pin plug.