Outdoor LED Floodlight Lasts Longer and Is More Energy Efficient

Outdoor floodlights are a good idea as part of a home security plan since lighting up your yard at night is a turn off for burglars who prefer dark shadowy places to lurk.  Floodlights on motion or heat sensors keep energy costs down, but LED floodlights are gaining in popularity and can amount to an even bigger energy savings. Though they cost a little more than incandescent floodlight bulbs to begin with, LED floodlights last 25 times longer. Considering outdoor floodlights are often placed in high spots that require ladders for changing, this increased longevity is good not only from an energy efficiency standpoint but from a fewer-trips-up-the-ladder-to-change-bulbs standpoint as well.

Though LED floodlights are not as common place as regular floodlight bulbs, you may be able to find a couple brands at your local Home Depot or hardware store. 

Comments

[Lee]

Be careful. There are too many manufacturer of LED lighting that poorly design their products. They overdrive the LEDs to make them brighter, which also shortens the life. They are typically designed to be as bright as possible, and not overdriven too much so they will last out their warranty, which is far shorter than the claimed life of them. Most claim they last something like 11 years, but their products are overdriven so they don't even last a year, and they offer a piddly little 90-day warranty.

[Sandy]

I just replaced my old motion detection flood lights with new energy efficient and they don't dim at all (old ones dim and then brighten when motion and stay bright all night. I think I may be using more energy than with the old ones!