Hello all. My first post and I have a couple of questions on replacing some flood lights. My son's room has track lighting using four 65w standard flood lights. I would like to replace them as they burn out with led floods. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Can I simply buy an led flood that will screw into the fixture? If so, what size should I get and where is the best place to buy? Thanks in advance.
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LEDninja
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There are 3 main sizes for standard flood lights. 2.5" wide, 3.75" wide, 5.25" wide. Which one do you need?
Do you need medium screw base or some other kind of base such as MR16, GU10, GU24?
Can you use CFL based flood light bulbs instead?
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A 65W incandescent will give you ~900 lumens.
A Cree LED flood will range from 300 lumens for the 2.5" wide ones to 500 lumens for the 5.25" wide ones.
Older LEDs offer 1/2 that (150-250 lumens).
That is a lot dimmer than your current bulbs.
LED bulbs are very expensive - from $50 to $100 for ones with a decent amount of light (still 1/2 to 1/3 of your current ones).
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From Home Depot (US)
3.75" wide, 12W, 340 lumens, $59.99
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
5.25" wide, 20W, 420 lumens, $69.99
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
From EarthLED
13W, 1000 lumens. Choose cool white or warm white. Fan cooled, if the bulb touches the fixture there will be rattling. $49.99 + shipping
http://store.earthled.com/collections/frontpage/products/new-earthled-evolux-sh
Do you need medium screw base or some other kind of base such as MR16, GU10, GU24?
Can you use CFL based flood light bulbs instead?
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A 65W incandescent will give you ~900 lumens.
A Cree LED flood will range from 300 lumens for the 2.5" wide ones to 500 lumens for the 5.25" wide ones.
Older LEDs offer 1/2 that (150-250 lumens).
That is a lot dimmer than your current bulbs.
LED bulbs are very expensive - from $50 to $100 for ones with a decent amount of light (still 1/2 to 1/3 of your current ones).
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From Home Depot (US)
3.75" wide, 12W, 340 lumens, $59.99
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
5.25" wide, 20W, 420 lumens, $69.99
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
From EarthLED
13W, 1000 lumens. Choose cool white or warm white. Fan cooled, if the bulb touches the fixture there will be rattling. $49.99 + shipping
http://store.earthled.com/collections/frontpage/products/new-earthled-evolux-sh
Thank you for the reply and links. My bulbs 65w, 3.75", standard base. I checked the links and yes they are very expensive. Looks like there are a few more years of R&D before the price drops.
I'll take your suggestion and go with CFL floods. Can you recommend one that would be comparable to what I have now?
I'll take your suggestion and go with CFL floods. Can you recommend one that would be comparable to what I have now?
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Kind of a sidebar here, but if by 'R&D' you mean LEDs that can be plugged into a 120volt track with no conversion and be cheap simply because it's convenient for residential consumers then you will be waiting a long time.
We tried this with fluorescent technology, and the result are these things called 'CFLs' that have mediocre results. Yet china continues to produce these things by a zillion while we gripe about them. The reason that LED retrofits, at least the good ones, cost so much is having to cram them into a package that was obsolete not long after Mr Edison assumed room temperature.
What we need is a pendant type LED that plugs into a conventional track but isn't forced to comply with MR, GU or PAR formats. Could probably cut the price in half.
We tried this with fluorescent technology, and the result are these things called 'CFLs' that have mediocre results. Yet china continues to produce these things by a zillion while we gripe about them. The reason that LED retrofits, at least the good ones, cost so much is having to cram them into a package that was obsolete not long after Mr Edison assumed room temperature.
What we need is a pendant type LED that plugs into a conventional track but isn't forced to comply with MR, GU or PAR formats. Could probably cut the price in half.
Dave_H
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GU24-base CFLs and table/desk lamps seem to be slowly creeping in,
but have not seen any GU10's (so far).
Dave
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Yes, here in sweden it's quite common with GU10 CFL's, have being for a while. Ofcourse the are cooler and draw less energy but they are not as strong as 50W halogens, lower CRI and often the are bigger too.
BR/
deeuubee
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If you go to Home Depot, they have a LED track light with 3 or 4 multi-LED heads for about $150. I saw them yesterday, but can't find any link for them. I think they were Hampton Bay.
Kind of a sidebar here, but if by 'R&D' you mean LEDs that can be plugged into a 120volt track with no conversion and be cheap simply because it's convenient for residential consumers then you will be waiting a long time.
We tried this with fluorescent technology, and the result are these things called 'CFLs' that have mediocre results. Yet china continues to produce these things by a zillion while we gripe about them. The reason that LED retrofits, at least the good ones, cost so much is having to cram them into a package that was obsolete not long after Mr Edison assumed room temperature.
What we need is a pendant type LED that plugs into a conventional track but isn't forced to comply with MR, GU or PAR formats. Could probably cut the price in half.
The incan retrofit lights will cost less, because they are the only ones that will sell in sufficient volume in the near future. Not only did we try this with CCFL, they sell quite well considering the amount of time they've been on the market relative to incan bulbs.
The reason LED retrofits cost so much is only greed and scale of manufacturing & sales. Even if you ignore the junk that overdrives the LEDs, you can in fact add up the costs of components and end up under $20 total. When they can make, advertise, distribute/etc each individual component they can certainly combine them to reach this price point, just as when you buy a product like a low-end stereo receiver for $100, you couldn't hope to buy all the individual components in small quantity for only $100 total.
deeuubee
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I think the next wave of track lights coming across the sea will be LED's. When trying to find infornation about this track light, I found quite a few designs for LED track lighting.
I went back to Home Depot and wrote down all the model information, but I can't find a thing about then anywhere...even on their web site. Maybe someone else will have better luck. If it's in your price range, each head was really bright. It might be worth a look.
I took one of the heads off the track and got this:
Hampton Bays
Model 72044, E323846, 120volt/6.5watt
The SKU was 839-899, but that got me nowhere also.
There are 4 LED's on the rotating head that looks similar to this except it only has 4 LED's that look like they are Edison type. Definitely not CREE or SEOUL.
I went back to Home Depot and wrote down all the model information, but I can't find a thing about then anywhere...even on their web site. Maybe someone else will have better luck. If it's in your price range, each head was really bright. It might be worth a look.
I took one of the heads off the track and got this:
Hampton Bays
Model 72044, E323846, 120volt/6.5watt
The SKU was 839-899, but that got me nowhere also.
There are 4 LED's on the rotating head that looks similar to this except it only has 4 LED's that look like they are Edison type. Definitely not CREE or SEOUL.
