10 Watt Outdoor Flood

[deeuubee]

I've been looking for an alternative to compact flourescents for all my house lighting because they mess up my automated house remote control stuff.

I've been eyeballing these lights for a while and descided to try them out.

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I need some flood lights for the yard. I'm not sure what type LED the single one is, but it's warm white and gives off a wide flood. It's not too bright. I should have started with their 30 or 50 watt model. I mainly chose this one for it's small size. If you are just sitting around out back and want some general light that covers a large area it's pretty good. After being on for a few hours, the case was warm not hot. It's supposed to be 600LM - 120 deg flood - 3000-3500K - 100-240VAC
There are a lot of electronics in the back compared to others I've seen.
It's supposed to run on 9-12V DC @ 1000ma. You can't really take it apart more that I did, because it is really potted well and sealed.

The other light is a 6 x 1W white light that is more spot than flood. Being white, it is much brighter, but it does not cover much area. The electronics are plain. I don't know why the other one has so much.
Again, I'll try to get night shots. If the 30 Watt unit is not much bigger, this might be a good solution for off grid or yard lighting. Maybe the 6 x 1 Watt model can be modded with P7's and a different driver. I'll see.

I'll try to get some night shots tonight.

 

[jason 77]

That big LED looks like the ones they sell on ebay..

not the most efficient LEDs out there...

 

[purduephotog]

That's pretty slick.

What did the units cost?

The 10W LED you should, assuming that that is a CC driver, be able to replace the single LED with something else that fits- such as a bridgelux 3x3 LEDs- couple of more lumens. I don't know which array, if any, has 3x3 in it... these photos here show 2x3 and 3x4.

http://www.swieringa.com/BridgeLux/

 

[Illum]

very interesting, I haven't seen those 10W LEDs used for awhile, but its likely their efficiency is around [or way below] 50lm/W...as these LEDs existed shortly after the luxeons were debuted and remained relative unchanged while CREEs and Seouls have pushed well beyond 100lm/W

The case for the 10W is metal right? Why do I have this feeling its plastic?



Something tells me its not regulated...just a linear AC-DC converter

 

[purduephotog]

very interesting, I haven't seen those 10W LEDs used for awhile, but its likely their efficiency is around [or way below] 50lm/W...as these LEDs existed shortly after the luxeons were debuted and remained relative unchanged while CREEs and Seouls have pushed well beyond 100lm/W

The case for the 10W is metal right? Why do I have this feeling its plastic?

Something tells me its not regulated...just a linear AC-DC converter

Hard to say.

There's a 9W AC-DC regulator from DX thats about 8$- pretty cheap. Actually given that flood type, if that was indeed metal on the back, you could go insane and drop a few larger LEDs in there

 

[deeuubee]

Illum,

"The case for the 10W is metal right? Why do I have this feeling its plastic?
Something tells me its not regulated...just a linear AC-DC converter"

The case is all metal. That's why I bought it in the first palce. I figured right off the bat that I could find a better more efficient emitter to replace in there.

The picture your talking ablout is for the 6 x 1 watt flood light. I'm already in the process of putting 3 x P7's in there. I just need to find the right 110V AC driver.

The other fixture has a different driver. That one I'm going to see what the current actually is to the emitter.

purduephotog,

I got them for $30 at auction + shipping, but since I bought a whole bunch of other stuff from them too, I got a break on shipping. I thought that was worth it just for the metal housing and reflector. They had 30-50 watt also, but the physical size was double and so was the price. I'm looking for small unobtrusive lights. I'm hoping that the fins disapate the heat, because I'm gonna crank that 10 watt up after I find out how high I can go before "POOF".

I'm gonna look into those other emitters...Thanks.

 

[Illum]

6 x 1W? well thats no fun, are they familiar LEDs or unknown/mystery LEDs?

 

[deadrx7conv]

I've been looking at these on ebay. The buyitnow price is usually too high. But, the actually no reserve bidding has been about $40 delivered for equivalents to the one on the left. The equivalents to the one on the right seems to be priced much higher. Seems like a good housing to modify if there is enough aluminum mass to cool more power.

30w ones sell on ebay for $100-150. 50w ones sell for $160-200.

The only reason why I didn't buy these is because I need it to run of 12v deep cycle batteries. Didn't think converting them to DC would be too cost effective.

Currently have 6 SSC P7's and a dozen 1400mAh AMC7135's drivers. I'm waiting for a chunk of aluminum for the heat sink. It'll be cut to retrofit a 300w-500w Cooper/Lithonia 'aluminum' halogen outdoor light housing(8x9x6") which was $15 from Acehardwareoutlet. So, I can have a 30w-45w-60w outdoor light that runs off 12v for ~$140 and a bunch of labor. Wattage will depend on how well the heat sink works and how many 7135's I decide to use.

 

[thegreatfixer]

hello i just got the 2 i ordered from Ebay for $32 EACH

they are indeed very nice and have a very even wide throw more (about 120`)

i measured 115-f on the case which seems waterproof even the cord inlet hole is waterproof the one i have use the same driver as pictured http://img686.imageshack.us/i/led10wflood3.jpg/

mine is for 230v AC

 

[deeuubee]

I noticed that the 30 watt and up lights have a bigger housing. I bought these because they are small.

I just got all my P7's in. Hopefully, I can find some time and put 3 of them in.

The plan is to install 3 P7's with individual drivers and operate them 1-2-3...low-medium high.

Sometimes you just want to hang and have enough light not to bump into thing...other times you want daylight for that evening volleyball game.

3 or 4 of these would be bright and unobtrusive.