I’m getting tired of replacing the 18 watt wedge based bulbs in my landscape lights because it’s hard to do, the incandescent bulbs blacken often, and I’m worried about breaking the doors which have hinges held on by a thin bead of solder.
Any LED replacements out there that put out 18 watts worth of light, throw light the same directions, and are sanely priced? Most of the stuff I’ve seen is some combination of DC only, not as bright, expensive, physically bigger, or are not omnidirectional.
Any recommendations for warm white LED rope light that doesn’t flicker horribly? I’ve seen quite a bit that does.
We use a lot of solar powered LED yard lights, though only in the fenced back yard. Different brands have different brightness, and size of the illuminated area. We’ve had good luck with them. For the cheaper ones, we’ve found we have to replace the rechargeable batteries fast, but the replacements last a year. There are a couple that are good at Ace, about $11 each, which is I think a good price. Best thing is, no wires to run. Note: we live in Arizona, the land built for solar power. 370 days of sunshine a year.
To clarify, I just want to change out the bulbs in the existing incandescent fixtures. There’s all kinds of wedge based LED replacements out there, but as I stated a lot of them are meant for cars and are DC only, or look like they throw light in one direction only. My fixtures are basically copper lanterns, so I need something that throws light in all directions, or at least mainly out of all sides. After looking for a few hours there seems to be a lot of cheap junk that’s not nearly as bright as my 18 watt bulbs, or huge, expensive ($15+) units.
I live in the greater Chicago area and we’ve been using LED lights for several years now along the driveway on the side of the building. We’re NOT the land built for solar power, but even in the depths of winter we’ll get several hours of light from them after dark, usually until 11 or midnight, which keeps us from tripping over stuff on our way in at night.
Look really neat glowing through a thin layer of snow.
I have a few that I use (I live in CA), and the problem is not at night, but in the AM. Especially with DST starting so late, that leaves a lot of dark mornings in the fall.
I got some super-cheap solar lights and randomly scattered them in an area across the front yard. It’s easy to replace the batteries, and yes, they look great with snow . . . except this past winter, when they rarely saw the light of day.
