flood light LED's

[james1542]

Scour ebay, if you buy them directly from china they will take weeks to arrive. There are US sellers, but they are all made in china regardless. Make sure it's not a 12v model.

[ReluctantHippy]

VVME has a California warehouse and a 1 year no hassle guarantee (I've tested it). You can find them on evilbay or with a google search. Hope it helps. And if you ask them for their "better price" they'll most often give you one.

[m00se]

Originally Posted by Redtail84

Thanks for the info. I just ordered the first one. I will order the second one in a week or two (gotta stay within my wife and I's budget). Can't wait! And what a deal! $22 for a 20W LED!

Ya guys get us all excited and stuff with these lights. Now, I know I'm no brainiac or nuthin, and honest, I've read all through this thread twice, and I don't see a single item number for these lights here! I was intrigued by that round 20 watter, but when I go to ebay and search I find 250,000 led lights but not THAT light - would some kind soul please either enumerate each of these lights by item number here, or PM me if you feel un-inclined to do so in the forum? I was interested in the bright white units mostly, to hang 3 over a 40b.

Thanks in advance and if I missed the item numbers, mea culpa!

EDIT: I found 1 item number that worked.

[m00se]

Originally Posted by ReluctantHippy

VVME has a California warehouse and a 1 year no hassle guarantee (I've tested it). You can find them on evilbay or with a google search. Hope it helps. And if you ask them for their "better price" they'll most often give you one.

Oh...oh my... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID!!!

srsbz, thanks for sharing that place!

Cheers

[Hoppy]

I hope someone with a PAR meter will be tempted to buy one of those 10 watt lights and measure the PAR vs distance, and see how much area it covers. I'm tempted myself to try it.

[Big O]

those lights are ugly

[acitydweller]

Originally Posted by Hoppy

I hope someone with a PAR meter will be tempted to buy one of those 10 watt lights and measure the PAR vs distance, and see how much area it covers. I'm tempted myself to try it.

Hi Hoppy,

I have 6 types of fixtures over 6 tanks of nearly equal height. A friend with a par meter had come over and i ran tests but i neglected to write anything down.bad citydweller bad bad

[ReluctantHippy]

Originally Posted by Hoppy

I hope someone with a PAR meter will be tempted to buy one of those 10 watt lights and measure the PAR vs distance, and see how much area it covers. I'm tempted myself to try it.

HEINEKEN357 did a test with a DIY PAR meter that he borrowed. Numbers he posted are as follows:

"Did a par test for you guys (par meter is diy that hoppy helped with) Hope it helps.
Measured from the meter to the light open air and right under the led.
10w led 6500k
12in 51par
15in 33par
18in 24par"

[Redtail84]

Moose, I just searched "LED floodlight day" an came up with a pretty good selection.

[le0p]

Originally Posted by james1542

Scour ebay, if you buy them directly from china they will take weeks to arrive. There are US sellers, but they are all made in china regardless. Make sure it's not a 12v model.

I was thinking about picking a couple of these up, looking at ebay there are a ton of these as 12v. Excuse the stupid question but, what's wrong with the 12v models? I'm not very electrically inclined.

[Hoppy]

Originally Posted by ReluctantHippy

HEINEKEN357 did a test with a DIY PAR meter that he borrowed. Numbers he posted are as follows:

"Did a par test for you guys (par meter is diy that hoppy helped with) Hope it helps.
Measured from the meter to the light open air and right under the led.
10w led 6500k
12in 51par
15in 33par
18in 24par"

That is very good! Those should work great on 10-20 gallon tanks, using one light for every foot of tank length.

[james1542]

Originally Posted by le0p

I was thinking about picking a couple of these up, looking at ebay there are a ton of these as 12v. Excuse the stupid question but, what's wrong with the 12v models? I'm not very electrically inclined.

12V is DC, typically the stuff you would run in your car, or on your boat. Your house is 120v AC. I suppose you could hook your light up to a power inverter and run it off AC. Probably easier to find one that is made for AC power.

[m00se]

Originally Posted by Redtail84

Moose, I just searched "LED floodlight day" an came up with a pretty good selection.

Thanks Redtail - now....why didn't I think of that?! Actually, I did search, but didn't put "day" in the search terms. It made a difference!

[m00se]

I just wish these units weren't so darned ugly. Anyone feel like examining theirs and comment on what it would take to remove the guts and re-house these in an aesthetic fixture? Retro fit them into, say, a round deep shade like the 8" diameter ones I have?

[le0p]

Originally Posted by james1542

12V is DC, typically the stuff you would run in your car, or on your boat. Your house is 120v AC. I suppose you could hook your light up to a power inverter and run it off AC. Probably easier to find one that is made for AC power.

Thanks, that makes sense.