Noticed a new LED light in the store yesterday: Sylvania Golden Dragon LED, a “puck” stye light sold in a 3-pack. Package claims it can be used under cabinets, in boats, RVs, closets…..
Unit runs on 3 AA batteries. Motion operated by waving a hand nearby. I’m thinking this would be a great light for under kitchen cabinets…..no wiring, motion detection. But how much light can this thing put out? Anybody tried these yet?
Marc
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These are probably best for closets and cabinets, places where the light is used less often. The LED uses about one watt of power so it takes 1 wh of energy to run it for an hour. Alkaline AAA batteries have about 1.4 Wh of energy each, so 3 x 1.4 Wh = 4.2 Wh of juice. That means about 4 hours operating time before the batteries need changing. The LED puck lights that use AA batteries have a brighter, 2W LED, and they use up the two AA batteries in about the same four hours.
Figure on spending $1 for the AA, and $1.50 for AAA batteries every four hours of use for each puck light. Something tells me the battery companies may be subsidizing Sylvania on this one...
Edited 2/1/2008 12:48 pm ET by TJK
Sylvania Golden Dragon LED, a "puck" stye light sold in a 3-pack.
Saw those in Sam's just yesterday evening. $28.95 for the three-pack, so that's a decent price.
Best part I was was that they wave "off" as well as "on." Downside of that is that you'd have to wave each one on or off.
Light was "LED bright" in the store, about the same as the push-button LED pucks by impression.
They are on my list of things to consider the next time I'm ahead $30--I've some darker corners & closets that they might be right handy for.
I considered LED undercabinet lighting (AC powered with a wall wart power supply) for a kitchen reno and found them adequate as "mood" lighting or give enough light to see your way in an otherwise dark kitchen. Were not, imho, adequate as any sort of kitchen counter task lighting. While a lot of them could be used, I guess to give adequate light, it would be expensive.