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Bulkhead lamp for modern bulbs?

Harry Bloomfield said:
Second try...
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6000W LED Solar Wall Flood Lights PIR Motion Sensor Outdoor Garden Security Lamp. Solar Panel Powered Water Feature Pump Outdoor Pool Small Pond Aquarium Fountain. Solar Powered Floating Pump Water Fountain Garden Bird Bath Pond Pool Fish Tank.
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They look good, to my mind there are two types of lighting for the garden, decorative and functional. With decorative, there is no requirement to declare the lumens output, with functional the law required that lumens output is declared.

I have used Christmas tree lights in the past to light a path. But clearly not designed to light the path. I have tried the old version.
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They worked for around 2 years, which is not bad.
 
ericmark said:
They worked for around 2 years, which is not bad.
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I suspect the issue with the general solar lights, was that they simply lit when ever they had charge in the batteries, running until the batteries were exhausted. More recent ones, seem to decide simply - to not switch on, when the batteries have not received an adequate charge during the day. They might not work for several days, then work an odd evening.

Specifically, I have never seen these pir lights ever fail to work, when triggered, which suggests the included pir's consume very little current.
 
The old version did have a PIR, and year 1 they worked very well, but it seems the glue used deteriorated and after 2 years they fell apart.

With non-solar, I mounted them under eves etc, so out of the worst weather. They seemed to use AA batteries, these also seemed to only last about 2 years.
 
The screwfix site would only open in a private browser, but of late they seem to have fixed it. I have just tried copy and paste and that has worked, I note it states 300 lumens so is not for decoration.

When my old shed is removed, one of those may help from my bedroom
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you can see the old shed, falling to bits, and the line just behind my car is real, caused by the house corner lamp being blocked by the shed, using tone mapping you can see more
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but the first one is more true to what it really looks like. But once old shed is gone, that may be enough. I do need to move the umberella wife got it cheap in a sale, second hand, but it's far too big.
 
ericmark said:
The screwfix site would only open in a private browser, but of late they seem to have fixed it. I have just tried copy and paste and that has worked, I note it states 300 lumens so is not for decoration.
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The two units I have already installed, I would judge to be around that light level output. I was never impressed with solar lighting before. Avril bought them, so I installed them, not really expecting them to be all that effective, but I must say I was very impressed with their light output, and sensitivity - enough to order some more, of the similar ones.
 
ericmark said:
The screwfix site would only open in a private browser, but of late they seem to have fixed it.
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I tried opening in a private window (Firefox) - didn't work.

I tried Edge, normal & private. Didn't work.

I tried Opera, normal & private. Didn't work.
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
Second try...
www.ebay.co.uk

4 Pack Outdoor Solar Powered Wall Light 238 LEDs PIR Motion Sensor Security Lamp | eBay UK

6000W LED Solar Wall Flood Lights PIR Motion Sensor Outdoor Garden Security Lamp. Solar Panel Powered Water Feature Pump Outdoor Pool Small Pond Aquarium Fountain. Solar Powered Floating Pump Water Fountain Garden Bird Bath Pond Pool Fish Tank.
www.ebay.co.uk
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The 'Pardon the interruption' in blue, works absolutely fine, here, in Win11 with Firefox..
 
ericmark said:
The screwfix site would only open in a private browser, but of late they seem to have fixed it.
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So just to clarify, for you, a normal left-click on Screwfix used to be broken, but now it works?

But that even when it was broken you could right-click and open them in a private window?
 

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