Outdoor Flood Light LED Bulb Replacements
Whether for outdoor or indoor use, replacing old outdoor flood light bulbs with LED equivalent bulbs will save you lots of electricity. A direct LED replacement for your existing standard PAR38 style flood light bulb, which has the same E26 medium base, is easy to do.
I replaced all of my outdoor flood lights (standard tungsten incandescent flood lights/spotlights) with LED bulbs years ago. There have been no issues since. Even in our weather extremes, cold temperatures dip to 20 or 30 below.
Replacing flood lights with LED will significantly reduce energy usage! This is especially important because I’m running on solar power (with a battery bank). But that’s not the only reason…
Before the era of LED flood light bulb technology, I relied on the typical 150-watt (tungsten) flood light bulb or spotlight combination. They were heavy energy consumers, quickly accumulating many watt hours! However, since I installed solar panels (and a battery bank for nighttime energy reserves), I’ve been vigilant about electricity consumption. The introduction of these LED replacement bulbs has significantly reduced my energy concerns, reinforcing the importance of energy efficiency.
LED Flood Light Bulb Energy Savings in Watts
A typical LED flood light (example below) with equivalent lumens as its incandescent counterpart consumes only about 10% of what a typical incandescent flood light uses. That’s a 90% savings differential!
Typical Flood light: 150 Watts
Example LED flood light: 15 Watts
This is good news for general energy consumption savings, but if you have solar off-grid power, it’s very significant! But there are more reasons:
LED Flood Light Bulb Brightness Comparison
Brightness is expressed by a technical term called ‘lumens. ‘
Lumens
A ‘typical’ 150-watt incandescent flood light puts out about 1700 lumens.
I like the Sunco brand here in the USA. The following Sunco (6 Pack) Outdoor LED Flood Light (also used indoors) is waterproof and equivalent to the old style 250-watt flood light, but this LED replacement only draws 20 watts and outputs a whopping 2,800 lumens!
Beam Angle Of Flood Light
This particular LED flood light replacement bulb has a beam angle of 90 degrees, which is nice and wide (flood). This is a good spread for outdoor coverage.
Outdoor LED Flood Light Color Temperature
This refers to how the cast of the light appears to your eyes – in gradients from warm to cool (reddish/yellow to blue/white).
As with many manufacturers, this LED flood light bulb comes in various color temperatures. I recommend 5000K (Daylight), which is excellent for security purposes (see the related article below on color temperatures). There’s also a 3000K (warmer light) version for ambience.
[ Read: Best Color Temperature For Security Lights ]
LED Flood Light – Life Expectancy
This is a statistic where the LED shines. The life expectancy of an LED bulb is tremendously longer than that of a traditional incandescent bulb!
Typical 150 Watt Incandescent Flood Light: ~750 hours
LED Flood Light Bulb (above): 25,000 hours
Dimmable LED Flood Lights
The Sunco linked above is 10% to 100% dimmable with an LED-capable dimmer (which will also dim incandescent).
No-flicker or strobe, no humming or buzzing.
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