LED Floodlight Bulbs

[mikester]

Recently I swapped out the bulbs in the 3 recessed lights over my porch with the HALO LED conversions. Easy and the lights are super bright.
Monday afternoon I had to replace a motion light on the side of my house. It was a typical Heath Zenith that I bought from HD about 6 years ago. I bought the equivalent in Defiant.
Now my questions. LOL
The fixture is rated for 2 120W bulbs. I bought a pair of GE LED bulbs that were 90W 1200 lumens in daylight. Honestly I think the old 75 halogens looked brighter.
They sell 150W LED bulbs that have 1500 lumens. Daylight or bright white. Theyre made by Cree. Since the actual wattage for an LED bulb is so much less than a standard halogen bulb can the 150W LED be used in a fixture rated for 120W ?
And what the heck is the difference between a "daylight" bulb and a "bright white" ?

 

[yatg]

Yes you can use a 150W LED. Its 150W equivalent light, but in reality it probably draws 20W or so. It'll be on the package.

The difference between daylight and bright white probably isn't much.
Could just be manufacturer labeling.

Light color is measured by the Kelvin scale, and it should be on the package.

http://www.westinghouselighting.com/color-temperature.aspx

At the lower end of the scale, from 2000K to 3000K, the light produced is called “warm white” and ranges from orange to yellow-white in appearance.
Color temperatures between 3100K and 4500K are referred to as “cool white” or “bright white.” Light bulbs within this range will emit a more neutral white light and may even have a slightly blue tint.
Above 4500K brings us into the “daylight” color temperature of light. Light bulbs with color temperatures of 4500K and above will give off a blue-white light that mimics daylight.

I 'm not partial to yellow light. For living areas, I'll do something in the 3500K range. For work areas I like 5000K. Anything above 5000K starts looking too blue to me.

 

[Lassen Forge]

How "white" the white is. "Color Temperature" is measured in Degrees Kelvin (K), warm white is like 3000, daylight is closer to 6000K. Bright white is below that. It's all what you want.

I just changed over the old T5's in the shop to Daylight LED tubes - what a difference it made. I can go out there and it's like, well... daylight. Wish I had done this years ago.

We had to replace the floodlights at the corner of our driveway, went with Dalylight LED floods - and after experiencing it I won't go back. You can actually see out there.

 

[Dustball]

You can step up the LED bulbs a lot more. For example, this "325 watt equivalent" LED bulb draws 55 watts, half of your flood light rating per socket. This bulb puts out 5000 lumens.

I have a couple of these bulbs and they are indeed bright.

 

[Bretny]

HD also has the 120w bulbs. Thats the ones I went with. The 90w just wasnt cutting it.

 

[99LeCouch]

I have two Cree LED floodlight bulbs in a 20' high motion light. They dim well and light up the area just fine. I forget how many lumens, but they are bright.

 

[mikester]

Thanks for the info guys. I bought 10 150W bulbs in daylight. Theyre 5000 lumen and I changed out all the fixtures except the one I need to replace. I have to say, theyre pretty bright.