Good Source for LED Lamps?

[jmellc]

My boss is searching for small LED lamps for bollard & other lights. Roughly 100 watt equivalent. The slimmer and shorter the better. Our supply house often has nothing. Any good online suppliers out there?

 

[Besoeker3]

My boss is searching for small LED lamps for bollard & other lights. Roughly 100 watt equivalent. The slimmer and shorter the better. Our supply house often has nothing. Any good online suppliers out there?

How many do you need?

 

[petersonra]

there are lots of places you can get stuff like this online. my suggestion is find the part number or style you want, go to google, and type the part number or style into the search box.

for instance here is a bollard light I found by typing in bollard light.

LED Bollard Light Fixtures | LightPolesPlus.com

Commercial grade LED bollard lighting for pathways, parking lots, building exteriors and more! Order bollard lights online or request a FREE quote from one of our lighting specialists!

lightpolesplus.com

 

[Flicker Index]

My boss is searching for small LED lamps for bollard & other lights. Roughly 100 watt equivalent. The slimmer and shorter the better. Our supply house often has nothing. Any good online suppliers out there?

Define "small". A19 medium base, or A15, or tubular shape rather than bulb shape? My guess is that 1,500 lm class screw-in bulb for totally enclosed application that consistently offers rated life under typical field conditions still don't exist. Especially not in socket base integrated LED ballast design.

If you're asking for small, I assume small space. Even 60W equivalent struggles with heat in pancakes. 100W lamps are 15-16W or double the input of 60W equivalent. Those that actually live 10,000 hours plus are often the result of the burnout protection activating dimming to prevent frying out the ballast or the LED elements. Those bulbs are great for motion activated lights, because you still get full output for a few minutes and restore the full output during off cycle but when they're left on, they throttle down and no longer remains at the full output.

When you find some knock off brand offers what you're looking for and specs on paper looks promising, but no reputable brand offers it, the above technical limitations are why.

Those issues are less of a concern with permanent LED luminaires, because they can easily thermally bond the LED elements and their ballast to the fixture housing.

 

[kwired]

there are lots of places you can get stuff like this online. my suggestion is find the part number or style you want, go to google, and type the part number or style into the search box.

for instance here is a bollard light I found by typing in bollard light.

LED Bollard Light Fixtures | LightPolesPlus.com

Commercial grade LED bollard lighting for pathways, parking lots, building exteriors and more! Order bollard lights online or request a FREE quote from one of our lighting specialists!

lightpolesplus.com

My guess is he is looking for replacement lamps of an LED type to install/retrofit existing bollards that had Edison base lamp holders (either originally incandescent or HID lamps most likely). Your link probably mostly has new luminaires with fixed LED assemblies rather than Edison base lampholders.

I somewhat recently had to replace a damaged bollard (snow removal guy totally demolished it) Original was a metal halide, catalogs still listed them along with ones with just a lampholder and no ballast, but try to order one and they have discontinued all those and only offered the fixed LED versions, and unfortunately did not have any in same diameter bollard as the originals either. So this one looks a little different than the others but is out in back the facility at least and not the main parking area in front.

 

[jmellc]

Medium base & roughly the size of a 100 or 175 watt metal halide lamp is ideal. The ones we have found before are usually about a 100 watt equivalent. Boss just found one that is 150 watt equivalent. It works but is tight in the bracket. Cover screw butts down to the lamp & can’t tighten all the way. He has another one coming we will try.