Pod lights for a fire place alcove

[250]

Are there any LED pod lights that will be happy with the higher temps that a functioning fire place alcove will see? My backup plan is a couple of halogens, but the LED's would get used a lot more since they **** less watts.

Thanks,

 

[mike93lx]

How hot does it get where the lights would be?

 

[250]

I'm not entirely sure. This is a new installation, the stove isn't installed yet. If I had to guess 150-175F. Would a remote driver set up work or do the emitters themselves not like the heat as well?

 

[kaymccampbell]

I've got LED strip lights around my mantle. There's about a foot from the actual fireplace hole to the LEDs and mantle. Whatever heat they get doesn't seem to bother them.

 

[250]

I've got LED strip lights around my mantle. There's about a foot from the actual fireplace hole to the LEDs and mantle. Whatever heat they get doesn't seem to bother them.

Picture?

 

[kaymccampbell]

Picture?

 

[250]

Thanks for sharing. This is what we're working towards. I'd think, though I don't know, that the lights in the alcove would be subject to more heat than the LED strips in your picture.

 

[mike93lx]

For the love of everything that is good, please do not put your TV that high.

 

[250]

Rest easy, no plan to put the TV over the stove. That picture was to illustrate the lighting concept only.

 

[dave*99]

For the love of everything that is good, please do not put your TV that high.

Agreed, I see too much of that. I wanted an 85" TV at a comfortable viewing height. While I'd like a fireplace. I chose not to install one.

I recently saw a drop down bracket to lower the TV from a docked location above the fireplace to a viewing position in front of the fireplace.
It's not for me.
How would you be able to look at the fireplace while the wife watches the Hallmark Channel? Wait---that's nap time. Nevermind.