LED porch light ideas
We put 250 LUMEN Gold Star LED's in our trailer last year and (so far) they're working great. Actually they're so bright I want to add a switch to the one dual lamp fixture we use all the time so I c...
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A Superbowl was played in a stadium with all LED lighting, 2015 (?) Tens of thousands of watts - my piddly light is a toy by comparison. But it is inexpensive as compared to commercial lighting. A 300-watt low bay light costs around five hundred dollars. My 600-watt costs half that and is way brighter than 2 of the 300 watt units. Bigger heatsinks, Arctic Silver, industrial fans and I drive the chips to their ultimate milliamp and thermal scan the chips at 90 degrees ambient temperature. I try and keep chip temperature to 45C or less.
There is a LESSON in this for CONSUMERS
Commercial LED lighting ratings are a FARCE.
They RATE lumens at full ma chip rating, then chop the hell out of voltage (current) to save on expensive heatsink costs. With lab instruments their lies scream and shout. Beware of lumen "Ratings" They are used-car salesmen grade fabrications.
There is a LESSON in this for CONSUMERS
Commercial LED lighting ratings are a FARCE.
They RATE lumens at full ma chip rating, then chop the hell out of voltage (current) to save on expensive heatsink costs. With lab instruments their lies scream and shout. Beware of lumen "Ratings" They are used-car salesmen grade fabrications.
