Above is a picture of the Kitchler 6052 Transitional Floodlights from the Islander Collection. That is what I ordered, from LightingDirect.com, to replace the old back yard security light which I believe is a bug magnet. The new lights shipped today.
The old light could only be fitted with one kind of bulb, a 27W bluish-white CFL from Lights of America. The new light fixture can plain old incandescents and floods as well as LED's and LED floods, so there is a lot of room for experimentation, as I have described. I can try both soft white and yellow bulbs. Sylvania makes a number of suitable 2700K soft white bulbs. Here is an example of a cheap LED buglight (I'd like to find something better, but this looks like at least it wouldn't attract many bugs):
The Miracle LED bug light uses only two watts. They say it's equivalent to 50W of incandescent, but I doubt that. The yellow color also means it might not seem as bright as it actually is.
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New solar light fixtures arrived on Tuesday evening, including 2 sets of 2 solar flood lamps from Frontgate, and 3 solar floods from Target.
I'd never seen the Frontgate fixtures before. They are much nicer than the ones from Target's brand Smith and Hawken. The Frontgate floodlights are much bigger and solid metal. I've already broken the tightening nut on two of the Target floodlights. (For the first one, I found a fitting replacement nut in my junk box, for the second one, I bought some 6-32 and 8-32 nuts at Home Depot tonight and hope to fix it soon)
The downside might be that the Frontgate flood lamps have two lamps powered by one solar module which apparently has two lithium phosphate batteries. The Target lamp also uses two lithium phosphate batteries--but for just one lamp. That might be why the Frontgate lamp has a two position switch, 6 hour or 10 hour. To get the 10 hour duration (same specification as the Target lamp) it might cut the light level below that of the Target lamp. We shall see.
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