in this video we'll be looking at these led flood lights from Ledvance
including this reasonably sized one that i think may look good
on the back of my house and should be bright enough to illuminate the garden
so what sets these LED floods apart from other LED floods that are on the market well let's take this
50 watt fitting from the Gen 3 range as an example for starters there's quality these fittings are
really well made and have been designed to be used in a variety of situations from residential to
commercial and can actually be placed in a variety of positions without affecting the durability of
the fitting so for example if you wanted to use them to illuminate a facade from below they can
be tilted back to point upwards without affecting their ability to keep out moisture another real
strength of this range is just that the range this style of fitting is available in black or white
warm white at 3000 kelvin or neutral white at 4000 kelvin and in 10 20 or 50 watts that
would be good if we as an industry continue to move away from rating lighting by the power and
keep getting used to rating them by their light output so these fittings are available in 1100
2200 and 5500 lumens for the warm white and slightly higher outputs of 1200 2400 and 6000
lumens for the neutral white just so you've got a reference to work from a typical recessed LED
downlight outputs about 600 lumens another thing i really like on these fittings is that the motion
detectors on them can be adjusted using the usual lux level and time on the dials but there's also
this third adjustment option on here that changes the sensitivity of the PIR so if the fitting is
mounted at two and a half meters off the floor the distance that the PIR will detect can be
changed from approximately two meters all the way up to 12 meters with a corresponding change in the
detection angle of the detector as well this means it can be used to illuminate small areas
reducing nuisance triggering from outside the property but it would also work just as well on
a property with say a long driveway or something like that and another really helpful feature is
that the motion detector is rated at IP65 as well as the fitting that's something to look out for
with floods is often the PIR will have a lower IP rating than the fitting that it's attached to and
of course you can override the PIR and just leave the fitting turned on by switching the power to
the flood on off on off on and it will remain permanently on then turning the power off for
five seconds will reset the PIR and when you next turn it on it will go into normal operating mode
now if that isn't giving you the light output that you require then this may be more your speed
it's very unlikely that you'll be installing this on a residential property it's far more likely to
be installed on say a commercial installation to provide security and safe passage around
the building it's physically much larger than the previous fitting and comes in 4 000 kelvin
neutral white again with a range of lumen outputs at 7700 10000 15000 and a whopping 20000 lumens
again with that kind of range available these will be well suited to a lot of different applications
right up to the very largest now you may have noticed another difference with this fitting
it's got no motion detector attached to it control for this fitting is provided by a photocell and
it's incredibly discreet it just sits on the back here and monitors the light level at this position
and that will bring the fitting on when it gets dark and turn it off when it gets light again of
course if you don't want the fitting to be on all night then you can simply pair it with an
additional control in the form of a timer another small feature that i love as well it's no secret
that i love a good angle and on a well-designed lighting installation the fittings will have
been calculated as sitting at specific angles in order to create the required illumination
and Ledvance have provided this handy angle guide on the bracket here to make sure that
you get it to just the right setting and just while we're looking at the bracket
there's another really good feature on all of the floods from Ledvance and that's the
angled bracket that they all have this small but important tweak to the traditional design
means that you can get to the back of the fitting for wall mounting without removing the bracket
from the fitting which means that you don't have to resort to using the world's shortest
screwdriver or flaying the skin off your knuckles when you're screwing it to the wall that is a good
solid bit of kit but we're not done because we have this absolute bear moth of a fitting as well
from the Ledvance performance range now obviously this isn't going to be installed on a domestic
property unless of course that property happens to have a five aside football pitch in its grounds
it does come in smaller physical sizes and lumen outputs in this range as well
in fact it's available in so many values i'm not going to list them all here but it goes from 5800
lumens all the way up to 40600 lumens and again is available in 3000 and 4000 kelvin versions
now as we say these are not designed for domestic use but rather for illuminating large outdoor
spaces perhaps car parks or shopping centre or even on masts for paths and even sports arenas
and that's reflected in the fact that the performance range is rated at IP66
another feature that makes this fitting suitable for use on a range of installations
and these little bubbles inside here now they're actually lenses that focus and distribute the
light in different ways if you look really closely you can see that on this specific fitting the
lenses are rounded on the underside but along the top they're sort of flattened off meaning that the
light is distributed in a way that's referred to as asymmetric this means that the light can
be sent out and delivered to the areas where it's really needed meaning that because of the way that
light travels and illuminates surfaces that it hits you actually get a more uniform light level
across the area that you're lighting up it's very clever and this range has both symmetrical and
asymmetrical options available so the Ledvance floodlight family is robust flexible and varied
you'll always find a suitable fitting for your installation but as always we want to hear from
you which of these fittings could you see yourself using on an upcoming job are you
growing more comfortable thinking in lumens rather than watts whatever your thoughts or questions
please leave them in the comments section below and as always thank you very much for watching