well i mean it's okay for light you can kind of see what's going on
there we go much better you can see everything in that garage now hello i'm Wanderer001 and this is
my review of the lz home led garage light now you might be asking yourself why am i looking at a
led light bulb equivalent review on youtube chances are probably if you're here you're
not asking yourself those questions but if you randomly happen to find this
video here's why chances are your garage has something that looks like this or like this
hanging from the ceiling and if that's the case your garage is not as bright as it could be
on a second thought the particular light bulbs that i have in my hands also are in your attic
so think of it this way better lighting in your garage and or better lighting in your attic now
you might be asking yourself yet again who is this guy and why is he reviewing light bulbs well
over there in the corner you'll see a playlist that pops up letting you know that i have an
affinity for led lights in general so stay tuned for some information here or check out some of
those other led light bulbs that i have coming back to the lz home this particular uh light array
actually comes in a two pack that's the one that i got so i have one out in my garage and one in my
attic hence why i said they could be work used in both places this array is going to give you 9000
lumens or 82 watt equivalent of bright white light where you place it it accomplishes this
by three different led panels consisting of 72 led diodes right there giving you
216 led points for the light array itself aside from the led light array you also get
a they call it a free gift as per their manual right here gift a lamp holder they're very
generic instructions you really don't need to worry about them or this as long as you have
sockets already in place because this light array uses a standard 26 connection or screw right there
you'll notice that the light array itself is foldable the lights themselves do fold out
however you like them because the one thing with this particular light array and we'll pull
that back a little bit is that because the leds are flat this is very much a directional light
pattern meaning wherever you're pointing these are where the light is going to be so you may
have some areas that are a little shadowier than others you'll notice you have your connection wire
from the base to the actual led panels you also have these very large heat sinks and this is a
aluminum heat sink to draw out that heat from the actual panel itself now because science and notes
quick tap here and you could see my min max there of testing this panel's heat after leaving it on
for about five minutes now i did get it up to about 125 on the direct panel itself while the
heat sinks weren't as hot as i thought they would be to draw out that heat from the actual
led panels this particular lighting array does not have a motion sensor on it and i don't really know
why uh the seller needed to specify that but this doesn't have a motion sensor it's just a
light array the stated watt equivalent for this was 82 watts however when testing i found that
it drew about 71.7 maximum of 78.4 watts of power because i just i like to do thorough testing even
for something like this for a light array there are some things to consider with this as well
one of the the notices we'll say is that there is a delay from flicking the switch to these powering
on so if you need instantaneous light you're not going to get that with this there's like a almost
imperceivable delay but just know that it's there i know that me talking about this doesn't really
do anything because it's a light you want to see how it looks so what we're gonna do now is we're
gonna take a look at this in my attic comparing it to two bulbs and then in my garage comparing
it to two bulbs so you get an idea of what you're looking at and why i think something like this is
very useful to upgrade to there's an example of the attic no there's no light source except for
some venting cutouts and we can see just how dark this place really is even coming
over to an attic fan now let's get some lights installed first we have the little led light
kind of spin things around here just to give you an idea
by the light source it's very bright but as we move further away things get darker
so again swinging back
just to see how bright things are next we actually have that larger led bulb so notice size does not
always mean brighter when we compare the little led bulb actually gave off more lumens than the
current one you can tell that because over there in the corner the previous owner of my house had a
tv antenna in the attic and there's the attic fan if we come back again it's very dark over there
and as we get closer to the light source we can see it's brighter so remember bigger
doesn't always mean better and here we have our directional led setup you can see right
there it's nice and bright we swing around this way still bright cross beam and as we get over
to this corner here it's still brighter than it was but not as bright as i would like it to be
there you can see the exhaust box fan you can also see a shadow on the floor there and that's because
of where this light is situated it's hard to see with the lights on but there is a
cross beam there that kind of takes away some of the brightness of the led because
something's in the way which means you're going to get shadows in places that you might not want
because of it and case in point is all the way over there now if you're doing this in a garage
like we'll do next it's not as noticeable because generally you're not going to have
beams in your way you're going to have even rough sheetrock
still daylight in the garage and i get some light in from the cutouts there and behind
me there's a door that has a window but this will give a good idea of a baseline of how dark
things are so there we got the wall and then we pan it over to the costco
and the ego corner right there and we'll bring it back here we have the original
led that was replacing a old cfl that was in this room so you can see it's not doing a lot and it's
got the orange tinge to it and yes i do understand that you know it's because of the color choice of
the light bulb but just keep in mind that this is kind of like your singular hanging led light bulb
that you would get and put in a lamp so might not be the best replacement for a garage and hopefully
you can hear me okay because neighbors are running some sort of equipment but if you can hear me and
not the buzzing in the background that would be thanks to the microphone i have attached here so
that review is in the corner if you're interested all right here is our bigger is not always better
example so again classic led light bulb kind of the same color tone that the
other one was but you can see it's just it's not super bright in fact if i come back
and reach behind me and turn off the lights you really can't see much of a difference between
the light being on and the light being off and yes again it is color tone it is lumens
but again it is the type of bulb that you would generally find in a garage in those single outlets
here we can see the led trifold light there how bright it makes the room now
the other thing that i wanted you to notice this is also why i kind of doing it from this
corner here is like we talked about it's a very directional light so right there in that corner
you kind of see that there's some shadowing that's primarily because if we tilt this back right there
you can see that the led light is right by my garage door opener and that is preventing
light from getting to that little corner there because it's being blocked by the garage door
opener so it's a very directional light but since i have it pretty much pointed down
it brightens up the floor a lot hopefully you found some portion of the visual display useful
i am going to say pro tip make sure that you have a different light on in your garage or attic when
trying to install these only because i tend to look up when i'm installing a light bulb and
when the power's on and these flash in your face it's very bright i know that seems like
common sense but in my attic there's no other light source so i tend to forget sometimes
that being said the question then becomes how much does this cost well depending on when you
get this where you get this if there's a lightning deal happening on amazon for instance you can pick
this up the two pack anywhere between 50 and 60 for me that's great because leds they're going to
last a long time the stated life span for this is 50 000 hours so for most people that's going to be
enough time you can get this once and you never replace it unless you live in your garage or attic
i don't know i spend time in there but not enough to burn through these anytime soon so for me this
was a great buy as you saw from the playlist over in the corner i have an affinity for light sources
so i was really happy to pick this up keep in mind because it is the directional you
are going to have to point these where you want them to illuminate but that is
beneficial because maybe you don't want your ceiling to be illuminated you want the floor
or specific area in your garage illuminate this will help you with that uh if you're installing
this where the cross beams are in an attic you will have to fold all of these down in order
in order to get this installed properly so just a little extra note for you to consider with that
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