Aldi floodlights

madmaggie wrote: »

Aldi have floodlights on sale next Thursday. I would need six for my house and yard. Does anyone know if they are any good? Thanks.

Have you a link to them ?

Here are the items in question:
https://www.aldi.ie/10w-led-flood-light/p/099659316788000

Interestingly, I see they're claiming a colour temperature of 6400K, which is tending towards the blueish side of daylight.
I must run a few tests to see how they behave as photo floodlights!

Kaya Rough Sorceress wrote: »

Did they come with a plug attached?

No I had to fit the plug tops myself
But the cable was attached and stripped ready for connecting,
I bought both 20W floodlights and the plug tops from electricalwholesaler.ie

LenWoods wrote: »

For a little more money you can get osram 10W LED floodlights

https://www.any-lamp.ie/ledvance-led-floodlight-10w-3000k-1050lm-ip65-black-symmetrical?qcd=1&utm_gst=eea83746c2280bdac695df7296a470efd3180b00&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8I657LyQ5wIVhrTtCh3XNgP5EAQYASABEgLk3_D_BwE

Are they sensor ones?

Kaya Rough Sorceress wrote: »

Looks good. Are they suitable for outside or a shed?

Hi yes there more suited to the outside environment there IP65 rated meaning there dust tight and protected against water,

Wheety wrote: »

Are they sensor ones?

The ones I've linked dont have a built in sensor

Wheety wrote: »

Are they sensor ones?

Lidl had 24 watt sensors ones for sale on Thursday. There may be some left in your local store.


I put one up over the weekend and it seems to work fine.

EDIT: I see Lidl have 20 watt Osram non-sensor ones coming up on the 23rd.
https://www.lidl.ie/en/p/discover-diy/20w-led-spotlight/p35692

Lex Luthor wrote: »

These are 3000k warm white, the aldi ones afaik are the cool white

I have the Aldi ones with the PIR's in about 3-4yrs
They are solid

I assume cool white is 6000k
I've got a 150w LED floodlight in my back garden bought for €34 on Ebay from China back when I didn't know there was a difference between 150W Halogen and 150W LED lol
It's like an episode of COPS when I switch it on,
Police helicopter style 6000k ice white

It illuminates three houses of a cul-de-sac out the back

Ronin247 wrote: »

Lenwoods... have to ask. What the hell is that set up in your attic. It looks more complex than the engine bay of the Starship Enterprise.

The full explanation is here in my home improvement thread the panel build is on page: 03
https://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/topic/80864-living-room-project/#comments

It looks more technical than it actually is;

Starting at the top left working across then down I'll explain
The first box is a 5 port Netgear Gigabit LAN router which feeds bedroom 01 upstairs with CAT7 RJ45 network cables for television, games console, internet radio etc.

Second box in from the left is another identical 5 port LAN router for bedroom 02 same purpose just separate router

Third is a white box there; that's a virgin media splitter inside which puts a virgin media feed in to each of the three bedrooms upstairs,

Fourth box there grey box is another Netgear gigabit LAN router this ones an 8 port feeding bedroom 03 upstairs.

The next white box is the main feed in from the virgin media box outside and contains a surge protection bit as required and fitted by virgin media, this box then feeds to the multiroom box previously mentioned there where its split to three individual feeds,

On the second row then.

First grey box with a blue light is a 4 channel amplified coaxial splitter
It takes in a terrestrial aerial feed then boosts the signal and provides four sockets to output to four different televisions

The black box then to the right of that is an HDMI to RF modulator
It takes in a HDMI feed and converts it to a television channel to your television via coaxial cable
Basically it let's you create your own private TV channel which you can name and broadcast anything with a HDMI output, it also allows you to choose the frequency of the channel to ensure it doesn't conflict with the regular Saoirview line up,
I'm using it for displaying a CCTV system which is plugged in to the modulator vis HDMI cable; instead of plugging it into a television,

The black cage across from this; is a fold out shelf; it will hold a Digital video recorder for a cctv system
The recorder then stays safe in the attic with cameras fitted on the soffet outside the house,
The DVR plugs in to the HDMI modulator as mentioned
The modulator feeds in to the 4 channel amplified splitter
The splitter then feeds teretistal channels or Saoirview and the CCTV footage to all four televisions in the home without having to touch the main camera recorder
Basically channel 1 on any television in the house displays RTE1 channel 0 displays the CCTV channel 2 displays RTE2 etc.

The white box on the bottom left then; is an amplifier for the terrestrial aerial on the roof which makes it static to help recieve a better quality signal,

The black six socket power supply then has a series of capacitors built in to condition the power feeding through it which eliminates white noise and hum which can impact on the performance of fine electronics or audio equipment.
Fridges and heaters create electrical noise which can impact on sensitive electrical equipment

The white box then on the far right is a 6 port F-Type coaxial plate
Takes in six Sattelite feeds from an octo LNB fitted to the sky sattelite dish on the roof
Distributes two sattelite feeds to each bedroom upstairs,
I'm currently using sky DRX595 multiroom boxes in each room with uk sky cards for freeview channels without any subscription.

All said; its nothing spectacular or unusual it's all day to day equipment but I've lay it all out to look impressive lol
I've fitted another HDMI modulator in the living room which allows me to broadcast the DVD/Bluray player to all televisions within the home which saves purchasing a second DVD player for another room.

The LAN network reduces the use of wifi throughout the house and increases the speed available to all connected devices; only our mobile phones use the wifi all other devices are wired to the main router,
The network then allows a printer to be placed in the kitchen area while the computer is upstairs or print from the mobile phone via wifi; it's also good for network attached storage or NAS for short; I can add a network HardDrive which can then be accessed from anywhere across the internet,
Having a dedicated LAN router for each room makes it easier to isolate a room from the internet if required
Theres four CAT7 RJ45 cables feeding in to the main wifi router which is one cable feeding to each Netgear gigabit LAN router around the home. Cat7 is capable of eight gigabytes per second data transfer between devices, the current Netgear LAN routers can transfer is a gigabit per second and mh existing broadband network provider is 400mb so it's fairly future proof.


Thanks for expressing an interest I do appreciate it,
And it took a few weeks to install everything tidy and label all the cables on both ends lol, not many get to see it now neither would be nice to call in sky or virgin to see there response to the setup lol