Test comparison of standard flood lights with LED flood lights'

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Test comparison of standard flood lights with LED
flood lights. You could power 10 LED flood lights
before you equal the current draw of a single
string of 100 incandescent Christmas lightsPress
F5 to see full screen slide show mode
By Jeff Ostroff LauderdaleChristmas.com Version
1.2 November 6, 2007
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• Advantages of LED flood lights
• Same form factor as a standard flood lamps
• They draw almost no current, lt .03 A.  Wont
  register on Watts Up meter!
• LED floods I bought rated at 110 VOLT, 0.025
  AMPS.
• They dont heat up at all.  A half hour later
  they are still cool to the touch
• Conventional flood lamps will burn your hand
• Much longer life than incandescent bulbs
• LED flood lamps do not flicker
• LED flood lamp has 50-70 LEDs. If one burns out,
  the others will stay lit
• No paint to wear off glass, the LED is the
  color.  They look clear, but when energized, will
  shine in their intended color
• Disadvantages of conventional floodlights
• Waste lots of power, 100W, gulp from .9A to over
  1 amp!
• They get real hot, you can seriously burn
  yourself
• Colored floodlights are painted on and wear off
  quickly
• Once colored paint wears down, you get hot
  whitish spots in the colored light

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LED Flood lamps are expensive in 2007
pricing Blue LED floods are 13.60 each Green
LED floods are 16.25 each Red LED floods are
10.30 White LED floods are 30! Conventional
flood lamps are cheap Standard colored flood
light from Home Depot is 4. A Tale Of 2
Cities  2 flood lamp types I compared for this
test1)  Sylvania PAR38 size, 100 W bulbs, blue
and green, from Home Depot2)  50 LED PAR30 size
3 7/8" wide MEDIUM BASE 35 DEGREE BLUE FLOOD lamp
(3000-5000MCD) from Action Lighting.
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How they were tested, blue lights firstI tested
them side by side aimed at my dual front doors,
one aimed at each door.  You can see conventional
flood is on the left. LED flood lamp is on right.
Pattern from conventional lamp on left door has a
hot spot in middle. Photo does not show how white
the hot spot actually is on this year old faded
lamp.  On right door see how the LED lamp has
covered it evenly with a beautiful blue shade,
similar to the better part of the incandescent
lamps blue color.
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Blue LED flood lamp by itself, aimed at right
front door.  Beautiful and even blue color looks
great.
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Same phenomenon, worn down colors on the Sylvania
green flood lamp leave a whitish hot spot in the
middle.  The green LED is much more evenly lit
across the right door than the conventional
Sylvania lamp on the left door.
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Green LED flood lamp by itself, aimed at right
front door. 
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One blue LED lamp can light up half the front of
the house if its not competing with a lot of
other light.
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Blue LED flood light looking head on into
glass.(brightness was reduced in the photo to
allow details of LEDs to come out)
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White Flood Lights Larger PAR38 size with 70
LEDs Cost in 2007 was 114 for a case of 4
lamps, almost 30 each.
2 new LED floods above on my garage door with
pure white light.  We will use 3 of them to fill
in the dark spot on the garage door. The light is
pure white like snow.  The white LED floods
appear to be dimmer so buy the largest floods.
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Our 2006 LauderdaleChristmas.com display with
incandescent flood lamps