Home Depot LED recessed lighting retrofit trim

[yuandrew]

I came across these at my local Home Depot. They fit into 4" and 6" recessed cans made by HALO and Commercial Electric. There is a "light bulb screw base" on the end of a foot long cord that screws into the existing socket and the unit replaces the trim.

I powered up one of the 6" ones by screwing it into a lamp displayed in the lighting section. It was very bright but I couldn't get an idea of how bright it was actually due to the other lighting in the area.

Driver is made by Espen technologies in Torrance. I checked their web site and all I could find are fluorescent light ballast for now.

 

[purduephotog]

UPC !!! UPC !!!

We need upc's to look these up- What was the cost per item? If you have a SKU as well that would be perfect.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

 

[purduephotog]

OK, some more research has yielded the following:

http://site.electricsuppliesonline.com/documents/halo-lighting/ML706830-specification.pdf

Approximate cost (online) :$130
http://www.electricsuppliesonline.com/haliml6ledre.html

Advertised 600 Lumens @ 15 watts consumption (12 watts lighting, 3 watts heat?). Roughly 100 lumens per bulb then which would seem to be rather low.

Lastly tracked down the driver- they don't advertise it but it is in their PDF-
http://www.espentech.com/images/catalog/espen_ballast.pdf
Near the bottom. -can't paste, so you'll have to look it up. Nothing over 9W.

Halo's LED website:

http://www.haloltg.com/common/brand... / Title24 Products : 6" Title24 LED&id=15465

And finally some stuff from California for fixed lighting- a report-
http://www.archenergy.com/lcf/LED-projects/downlight-cooper.html

Given that I can puck up a flood that'll do that for less than that I wonder what's the deal here... anyway- hoping to find it at a HD to see what they're pricing it as.

 

[jumpinjackflash]

I bought one of these and put it over my kitchen sink. I works great but it's a very cold light - probably over 6K kelvin. I'm sure it saves money but not so sure it was worth it. My daughter & wife turn it off whenever I'm not around. I love LED technology but it's still too expensive.