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Since this got bumped to the top, it's worth mentioning that the brightness of the light didn't depend on 120 volts or 12 volts. It's the WATTS of the light that is the indicator of the brightness. Actually, lumins to be more technical...but definately not voltage.
Me? I'm just here for the free beer!Quote:
Originally Posted by waste
Now where is that keg they promised was gonna be here?........
Absolutely. When we re-did our kitchen we went from the old, big, ugly cans to mostly 12v units of track lighting and mini-cans. We use 50watt PAR-16s and I get the widest flood pattern available--You can get very wide or medium wide floods. Or you can get wide or narrow spots. With everything on full you can practically get a sun-tan!Quote:
Originally Posted by Poolsean
We also re-did our house office as it's directly off the kitchen and in there, the 50w units were too bright and I put in 35w floods instead. Much better.
The only real drawback I see to 12v is that the bulbs are a little harder to get and quite expensive. Also, switching to fluorescent doesn't seem to be possible (although 12v fluorescent lamps exist for portable use).
I replaced a standard 500 watt floodlight(too bright)with a light with 546 colored led's so it's hard to compare them but it does light up my 20x40 vinyl liner pool just fine, well the red only shines about half way down but I didn't care for that color anyway. If anybody is thinking of changing to this type of light I would recomend it.