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Homedepot also has a 1200lm 2-head, a 1700lm 2-head, and a 1720lm 3-head outdoor motion sensor light.

Its good to see the output and efficiency increase considerably in the past year for outdoor lights available at both LowesDepot.
 
Go to the website of Home Depot, Lowes or whatever hardware store is in your area. Search 'LED light bulb'. I don't think you are looking at the A19 home bulbs. The PAR bulbs tend to be narrow beam, the BR tend to be flood. Because of the shape of the bulbs (long neck flaring at the end the wrong size probably will not fit.
Hint the bulb width is measured in 1/8ths of an inch so a PAR 38 is 38/8=4.75" wide, PAR 30 and BR 30 is 30/8=3.75" wide, PAR 20 is 20/8=2.5" wide. The BR 30 tends to have fatter necks than the PAR 30. Measuring the width of your existing bulbs should let you select the right size.
 
We're not looking at A19 bulbs. We're looking at all inclusive PIR/motion sensor outdoor flood lights, like the Utilitech pictured. The newest ones at LowesDepot are an improvement to what was available last year. Both the Lowes and the HomeDepot lights now mention Cree LEDs(XPE's, XPG's...).

If you do look for 30 or 38 sized bulbs or A19/A21, for outdoor retrofitting, make sure that they mention outdoor as many LED bulbs are for indoor/open fixtures.

I have old motion/security double-par38 over the garage doors, side of house and yard lighting.... I replaced a couple of the burnt out bulbs with PAR38 LED's last winter. I do appreciate the instant on full power, compared to CFL. But, the beam/output is a little lacking. Since the classic double-par38 motion sensor fixtures are cheap & ugly(even when new), I have a feeling that I'll be picking up several of the Lowes or HomeDepot lights. They just look "The Jetsons" good and finally have the 'output' of a couple PAR38's. I was under impressed by the 1373lm and lm/w from last year. 1700-2100lm is more like it!!!!!
 
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