Thread: Blue Lighting Question

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I've been trying to create blue lighting for my graveyard scene the last two years, but it seems like the blue floodlights aren't strong enough. Does anyone have any good suggestions. Would this be a good investment to help? 5 120 SUPER BRIGHT LED PAR 38 COLOR BLUE - eBay (item 230334415733 end time Apr-06-09 15:44:04 PDT)

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I had two different problems with my blue incandescent flood lights in the graveyard. The first set I got from Home Depot were blue-greenish and looked like a space alien coloring. Not good for the graveyard. The second set I bought from Lowe's and were the perfect blue color but the blue paint flaked off the front and I ended up with spots of white light shining through.

So, this year I'm going with blue LEDS. I looked at Minion's Web at the show and they looked good and will probably be what I get this year.

Funny Terra, I've had the same issues! Years ago I bought the Lowes GE floods. Paint flaked off all of them. Then, for one brief, shining moment, I found a type of Phillips light at Home Depot that appeared to be deep blue colored glass. I bought something in the ballpark of two of them and then after that all they had at Home depot were the Phillips lights with the very thin blue-green glass that look horrible and way too bright.

Then last year I found these little LED strips encased in silicone at Harbor Freight tools. they run off of 12v (or less) and put out light like this:


They run about $8 each, though, but do go on sale occasionally...if they still carry them.

Currently I use the 12V landscape lighting with colored bulbs and it works pretty well for keeping the lighting apparatus hidden and softly lighting key pieces.

-EEric

I don't know what it is with Blue Lights, but those seem to be the first to have the paint flake off...

That was my biggest proble. I like to let the neighborhood enjoy my props and graveyard. But after 5 days of lighting the yard with the blue lights, it started flaking off. Last year it was so bad that I had to use red lights. I just want to solve this problem because I love my blue lighting.

Originally Posted by eanderso13

Then last year I found these little LED strips encased in silicone at Harbor Freight tools. they run off of 12v (or less) and put out light like this:

-EEric

Were they waterproof?

Originally Posted by Terra

Were they waterproof?

Yup! I mean, obviously you need to keep the connection from the wires out of the water somehow, but the actual bus bar for the power and all the LEDs mounted on it are totally encased in silicone. This is the same idea, but the ones I bought were longer than these, I think:



-EEric

Ooooh....cool. Thanks

I searched harbor Freight and found these...

blue....
- Harbor Freight Tools - Quality Tools at the Lowest Prices


red...
- Harbor Freight Tools - Quality Tools at the Lowest Prices

Are these the ones your talking about eanderso13?

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

Are these the ones your talking about eanderso13?

Yup! As you can see, they are $7.99 each... not bad considering the price of those flakey floodlights...and they'll last longer and can be mounted inconspicuously almost anywhere! I just found a guy on ebay selling smaller ones (9 LEDs instead of 24) for $3.00 plus shipping in an array of colors. he mentions wholesale pricing over 50 pieces...maybe I could organize a group-buy if enough people would be interested.

Otherwise I'll just get a bunch for myself in Blue, Green and Amber.
I plan on wiring them all to 12V landscape lighting taps so I can just run them off the low voltage line that already runs all over my yard for Halloween!

-EEric