To follow with the current trend in the fixed Lighting section I lit up my eaves with Cree LED's. My house is going on 28 years old and there is a porch style light at the front door and the back door (only doors going outside). I do have a motion light above the garage and it remains. The "stock" lights did fine for lighting up the front door and back patio but they were ugly 13w CFL's. One dead give away that we were out of town or too lazy to flip a switch was that the CFL's were on all day.
The perimeter of my house is very dark with the CFL lights off. The motion light, lights up the entire driveway but the doorways were very dark. I felt this was a safety and security issue. In talking with a buddy we spec'd out a driver and Cree's. My power source and driver are in the attic. The circuit is one giant loop. I tried to keep the wire inside the attic as much as possible in an effort to make everything look as clean as a DIY can.
This is the walk way to my front door. You can see the porch light. When it's on at night it pretty much only lights up the door, most of the walk is dim.
Here is a portion of the back. Again you see the porch light. It lights the heck out of the door but it's not ideal. That light back near the red bird feeder is a fake. There used to be a door into the garage but it's gone as is power to that light. It was like that when I moved in and this is one of my ways of dealing with it.
LED's from Cutter.au I ran 11 emitters around my house.
An example of the heat sink. I only used optics on 2 of the lights. The other 9 were bare like this.
For the most part 7 of the lights are mounted like this. It's out of the way and 8-9 feet off the ground. The wire was later covered once I knew the circuit worked.
Once I knew everything worked I covered the wiring. This picture was taken before I was able to paint the strips.
I installed 4 lights in the walk way to the front door. For this application I used emitters without stars. The biggest reason is that I goofed when ordering and this is what showed up. It was good though because I mounted these different than the rest.
This is a side view of one of the 4. PVC bushing from Home Depot and copper as a heat sink.
The perimeter of my house is very dark with the CFL lights off. The motion light, lights up the entire driveway but the doorways were very dark. I felt this was a safety and security issue. In talking with a buddy we spec'd out a driver and Cree's. My power source and driver are in the attic. The circuit is one giant loop. I tried to keep the wire inside the attic as much as possible in an effort to make everything look as clean as a DIY can.
This is the walk way to my front door. You can see the porch light. When it's on at night it pretty much only lights up the door, most of the walk is dim.
Here is a portion of the back. Again you see the porch light. It lights the heck out of the door but it's not ideal. That light back near the red bird feeder is a fake. There used to be a door into the garage but it's gone as is power to that light. It was like that when I moved in and this is one of my ways of dealing with it.
LED's from Cutter.au I ran 11 emitters around my house.
An example of the heat sink. I only used optics on 2 of the lights. The other 9 were bare like this.
For the most part 7 of the lights are mounted like this. It's out of the way and 8-9 feet off the ground. The wire was later covered once I knew the circuit worked.
Once I knew everything worked I covered the wiring. This picture was taken before I was able to paint the strips.
I installed 4 lights in the walk way to the front door. For this application I used emitters without stars. The biggest reason is that I goofed when ordering and this is what showed up. It was good though because I mounted these different than the rest.
This is a side view of one of the 4. PVC bushing from Home Depot and copper as a heat sink.
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