Colored spotlights?

Chris_S · #1 10-26-2005, 05:37 PM

I'm a new homeowner and my beautiful backyard is setup to be lit at night by 10 BIG spotlights/floodlights (regular household floods, 150 watts a piece I think in the standard cheapo twin mounts)

Anyhow, they are setup in a few different colors, reds, greens, yellows, blue that really make the backyard look cool at night...

HOWEVER..150watts x 10 lights equals a lot of electricity! My front security light is separate and also a flood, so I replaced the 100 watt floods with two encased 20watt CF floods and it puts out the SAME amount of light for 1/5 the juice.

However I can't find any colored CF floods available anywhere.. Can I just get some sort of high temp color gels and basically just GLUE them to the front of the CF floods?

Ideas to help me save electrons?

greenLED · #2 10-26-2005, 05:57 PM

colored filters?

Chris_S · #3 10-26-2005, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by greenLED

colored filters?

Wow, brillant reply....

Wim Hertog · #4 10-31-2005, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris_S

Wow, brillant reply....

Actually, colored gels (filters) are not that bad. All you need is the right CFL-filter combination. Use a daylight color CFL (> 5500K) for your blue and green lights and a warm white CFL (2700K) for your red light.

These filters are quite good: the transmission spectrum matches the phosphor peaks of the CFL's:

blue: http://www.leefilters.com/LPFD.asp?PageID=430
green: http://www.leefilters.com/LPFD.asp?PageID=253
red:http://www.leefilters.com/LPFD.asp?PageID=316

About the colored CFL's:

Landlite has colored CFL PAR spots: http://www.landlite.com/CELONA%20Web...ps_Page1.3.pdf

But I don't know where to buy those. I once found a 25W blue CFL PAR38 flood...very nice. Here are some pics:

Chris_S · #5 10-31-2005, 03:34 PM

That rocks! Thanks!

Chris_S · #6 11-11-2005, 01:22 PM

Problem is, I cannot find these bulbs ANYWHERE in the US!

ideas?

Wim Hertog · #7 11-11-2005, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris_S

Problem is, I cannot find these bulbs ANYWHERE in the US!

ideas?

Did you try to call/mail landlite to ask them? I know they are the manufacturer, but maybe they know where to get them....

I wouldn't know where to buy them in the US though...sorry about that:-)

Anyway, you can give the color filters a try. They can produce more saturated colors than the fluorescent phosphors can....red seems always pinkish.