Thread: Red Outdoor Lighting

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I'd love to change our outdoor lighting to red or orange this year...but I can't seem to find a budget friendly way to do it. We have those malibu uplights illuminating our palm trees and landscaping, and I can't find red bulbs...plus the lights are expensive. Anyone know of a fire-proof way to make our light appear red? I thought of red glass or some sort of plexi glass to slide over the lights..but I have no idea where to find stuff like that (or how to make it!)

Any ideas?!?

Use color gels on them, the professional ones will handle the high-temps with no problems:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/gels-gobos-lenses

robb3369, you rock! that's exacrly what I was looking for!! thnx

Hi. I've used those same Malibu 12VDC yard flood lights and wrapped the colored gels around them. It works pretty good. I've also put a clear C7 bulb inside of a piece of 1" pvc pipe and wrapped the colored gel around the end and secured it with black duct tape. (If you cut the other end of the pipe off at a 45 degree angle, you can screw it directly to a piece of wood). It works okay as well.

Maybe one day I can upgrade to one of those cool LED setups that people are using. :-)

Plug and Play LED Spot Lighting

Easy LED pin spots

Oh, one last thing... don't expect those gels to handle extreme heat. I bought a 500W shoplight at HD for $6 and sandwiched a red gel in between the glass and the frame. It lasted about 2 minutes before I realized the nice red tree that I lit wasn't so red anymore...it kind of had a red outer ring with a white center. I still haven't scraped all of the melted gel off the of glass...

You need to have "some" space between the lens and the gel... for the 500W shoplights, I wrap the entire steal guard with gel. I know its a waste of a whole sheet, but that space is needed to allow for heat. They do make a plastic par gel that goes directly over par-36 cans. Those 30 watt lights are not as hot as the 500 watt ones, so different steps need to be taken in regards to heat.

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