LED Flood Light – A Cool Find For Energy Savings
12 Apr
Do you wish you could find some of the new LED lighting technology at your local stores? Well we finally found some near our home in Ft Worth, Texas…
On a recent visit to our local CostCo we found LED flood lights available and it was a pleasant surprise to see affordable LED lighting being distributed by a large chain. Maybe we will soon be seeing these super energy efficient bulbs in the local hardware stores as well.
These LED flood lights are made by Lights of America and they contain about 70 individual LEDs to provide a bright white light.
My first observation is that the packaging does not provide much damage protection and I wonder how many of the bulbs get damaged during transport? The second comment is that the packaging seems overly wasteful, the 4 inch bulb is held in a 10 inch by 16 inch cardboard package.
With the above being said we were still excited to try this new LED flood light in our home.
The bulb cost approx $11 and at hopefully if more retailers start to stock LED lights then this price will drop. We installed an incandescent bulb just to get a baseline brightness photograph and a 65W incandescent produced the following brightness;
A 65W incandescent produces a very bright and warm flood light but is very inefficient and our home does not contain any incandescents now but for the sake of a comparison we installed this bulb to show the results.
Now lets take a look at the LED flood light;
The LED flood light is clearly less bright but it only uses 3.5 W, that’s right, just three and a half Watts!
The light was definitely still bright and it highlighted our fireplace and the surrounding area sufficiently but it was also a very cold white light, we might try painting the bulb lens with some stained glass paint just to give the bulb a warmer color. Since the LEDs produce very little heat painting the bulb lens might actually work, in fact we could create any color we want!
We are going to buy more of these LED lights and install them strategically throughout our home, we already have all of our canned lights using 15 Watt CFLs but we can definitely still reduce our energy consumption further if we move to the 3.5 W LED floods, the only question is, can we afford them at $11 per bulb? The Lights of America company claim a 30,000 hr life so any bulbs that we buy will last a long time.
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we found those same led lights that Costco sells. We'd be interested in hearing how the stained glass paint went. We were thinking of doing the same thing because we really don't like the cold light it puts out. It certainly puts out less energy. Have you tried the outdoor version? Do they put out the same cold light? Costco price was pretty good. If you find a good color combo for the lens' post results.