Garage door spotlights
Discussion
Morning all.
I want to put 3 spotlights above the double garage doors on an astro timer. However... the garage has a lintel in it. A classic catnic lintel which is a box section steel.
Am I ok to drill the 56mm holes in this for the spotlights? As a guest I would say it's ok since its only a garage roof not a 3 story building on top of it. However would be good if someone else has done it already? Or any other solutions to this.
I want to put 3 spotlights above the double garage doors on an astro timer. However... the garage has a lintel in it. A classic catnic lintel which is a box section steel.
Am I ok to drill the 56mm holes in this for the spotlights? As a guest I would say it's ok since its only a garage roof not a 3 story building on top of it. However would be good if someone else has done it already? Or any other solutions to this.
Edited by eniacs on Tuesday 16th June 09:23
Again thanks for all the suggestions so far.
I've now had some time to look into this and have come up with only one real solution...
I tried the LED strip idea, I had some 72w 5m 5050 LED strips in the house i bought with the intention of doing the living room coving thing with them. So tried these at night on the garage. They work great and produce a good light. However at 72w they were far too bright and would use too much power.
I was intending to do 3 spotlights at 3w each which would provide ample light for the door and driveway and would use a pittance of £5.40 per year to be on for the 4000 hours of darkness we have.
So I scoured the internet and found these:
Ebay link
So I guess im asking if there is a better option. I like the spotlights as they will look nice and they look on paper to be efficient, has anyone seen better surface mount spots?
Is there another option for an LED strip? I want to keep power usage down and could probably use about half the light the 5050's produce, and would prefer to have a quarter of the power they use!
I've now had some time to look into this and have come up with only one real solution...
I tried the LED strip idea, I had some 72w 5m 5050 LED strips in the house i bought with the intention of doing the living room coving thing with them. So tried these at night on the garage. They work great and produce a good light. However at 72w they were far too bright and would use too much power.
I was intending to do 3 spotlights at 3w each which would provide ample light for the door and driveway and would use a pittance of £5.40 per year to be on for the 4000 hours of darkness we have.
So I scoured the internet and found these:
Ebay link
So I guess im asking if there is a better option. I like the spotlights as they will look nice and they look on paper to be efficient, has anyone seen better surface mount spots?
Is there another option for an LED strip? I want to keep power usage down and could probably use about half the light the 5050's produce, and would prefer to have a quarter of the power they use!
eniacs said:
They're cheap so as long as you have no expectation of them lasting very long go for it. I'd put a tenner on it that they don't produce anything like the figures they claim when hot given the apparent complete lack of any decent heat sink....Guy; That's granted, although to be fair my LAP GU10's using 3W dont have heatsinks either (at least not on the outside, given the outside is plastic). The spotlights in the link are also an aluminium body, so its possible the body is thermally connected to the chip.
I feel my options are limited here, so Im grasping at straws. I wouldn't normally consider the cheap imported ebay junk usually...
I feel my options are limited here, so Im grasping at straws. I wouldn't normally consider the cheap imported ebay junk usually...
eniacs said:
However at 72w they were far too bright and would use too much power.
Can't help with the power consumption but do they need to on all the time? How about a motion sensor - there are some that look better than others such as https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/ST1402.html or https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/STIS180W.htm...Ok so a little bump as I've gone ahead and installed an LED strip above the door. After messing around with the chinese suppliers of the strips I've now got a few around the house! A couple sets of bright that are way too bright, one set of 3528 that are not warm white (although ebay seller told me I was wrong despite photo showing it next to a real warm white lol) and the installed strip which is seen below...
Although, I'm not convinced that it doesnt look a bit too "showy" or "council" or im not sure what. But Im not sure that I like it! Would have preferred a more classy looking finish maybe.
What do you all think?
Although, I'm not convinced that it doesnt look a bit too "showy" or "council" or im not sure what. But Im not sure that I like it! Would have preferred a more classy looking finish maybe.
What do you all think?
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