Day/night LED bulbs

[Mike Hoxbig]

Where can I get some bright day/night LED bulbs from?

Most that I come across are between 5W-10W, or 500 lm - 800 lm. I need something that's >1000 lm.

In desperation I've even scoured Temu but they mostly have motion sensored ones, which isn't what I'm looking for...

 

[HAL 9000]

Browsing through the Eurolux website, it appears that all of their Day/Night LED globes max out at 10W / 800 lumens and only the 'end of range' B22 / E27 20W CFL ones have a higher max of 1,155 lumens...

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[Mike Hoxbig]

Browsing through the Eurolux website, it appears that all of their Day/Night LED globes max out at 10W / 800 lumens and only the 'end of range' B22 / E27 20W CFL ones have a higher max of 1,155 lumens...

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Yeah I've seen those, but wouldn't have wanted CFL anyway.

It's easy to find LED bulbs that are 1000+ lm, just not with a day/night sensor it seems...

 

[soulie]

Yeah I've seen those, but wouldn't have wanted CFL anyway.

It's easy to find LED bulbs that are 1000+ lm, just not with a day/night sensor it seems...

you may find the sensor activates at a certain lumen value ,bigger globe more lumens ,may just cycle on and off .is a floodlight not an option ?you get higher wattages there .

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Unfortunately floodlights are not an option.

This is the wall that the lights are on. There's 10 in total.



The lights run off the same line that powers the gate motor, so it's always live - don't ask, this is how the previous owners had it wired. I've had a couple of sparkies evaluate it and it's fine, just inconvenient, and I couldn't be bothered to get the whole thing rewired.

They actually had a day/night sensor on the line before, so it was only live at night. This would have worked for the lights, but it meant the gate motor was also only powered at night, and ran off the battery during the day. This was daft so I removed the sensor and decided to use day/night bulbs.

The issue with floodlights is when they start going, I'm going to have to replace the whole unit. Easier to just replace the bulbs...

 

[Neuk_]

We have a similar issue with two lights on the side of our house which are run off an outside plug point and thus always live. I just bought CFL bulbs with day/night sensors, I can't remember the exact spec's as it is a side of the house that besides housing our main bedroom outside aircon unit, is hardly ever used. The CFL day/night globes work well but I mistakenly bought cool white instead of warm white which neither myself nor the wife like.

 

[Freakboy]

I got some of these Osram/LEDVANCE LED Daylight Sensor 6.5W/827 from Chamberlains that work for us around the house.

 

[rh1]

Unfortunately floodlights are not an option.

This is the wall that the lights are on. There's 10 in total.

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The lights run off the same line that powers the gate motor, so it's always live - don't ask, this is how the previous owners had it wired. I've had a couple of sparkies evaluate it and it's fine, just inconvenient, and I couldn't be bothered to get the whole thing rewired.

They actually had a day/night sensor on the line before, so it was only live at night. This would have worked for the lights, but it meant the gate motor was also only powered at night, and ran off the battery during the day. This was daft so I removed the sensor and decided to use day/night bulbs.

The issue with floodlights is when they start going, I'm going to have to replace the whole unit. Easier to just replace the bulbs...

Cant you remove the connection to the gate motor and get a supply from another source?