low cost wet location step light

[wireguru]

anyone have any suggestions for a low cost line voltage wet location step light? Everything I have found seems to be $50 and up, I need something with a retail max of around $20. Im looking for something around the size of a single gang plate, louvered style.

 

[mdshunk]

You have a lot more options in step lights lately when you go with low voltage. These look okay, came from Home Depot, hit your price point, and seem reasonably well made for the money spent to me:

 

[480sparky]

You have a lot more options in step lights lately when you go with low voltage. These look okay, came from Home Depot, hit your price point, and seem reasonably well made for the money spent to me:

Marc beat me to it..... Big Blue or Big Orange.

 

[mdshunk]

Marc beat me to it..... Big Blue or Big Orange.

I have normally gone with Progress "brick lights", but a lot of people are wanting a lot of step lights in decks lately. I normally don't like much from HD, but the step lights in my picture really aren't that bad.

 

[wireguru]

those brick lights are what I want, but theyre way too expensive. I guess im going to have to go LV, was trying to avoid it but the cost for the line voltage ones is too high. These will be going in poured concrete.

 

[mdshunk]

those brick lights are what I want, but theyre way too expensive. I guess im going to have to go LV, was trying to avoid it but the cost for the line voltage ones is too high. These will be going in poured concrete.

oooooh... that changes my opinion. For installation in concrete placements and masonry, I'd really try to push you into some decent one's made for that duty.

 

[peter d]

anyone have any suggestions for a low cost line voltage wet location step light? Everything I have found seems to be $50 and up, I need something with a retail max of around $20. Im looking for something around the size of a single gang plate, louvered style.

Hadco is not low cost, but they are very high quality.

 

[Fulthrotl]

oooooh... that changes my opinion. For installation in concrete placements and masonry, I'd really try to push you into some decent one's made for that duty.

please. get some decent one's if you are going to encase them... the
last ones i got were from halo, and about $80 each, with trim.... 110 volt.

you really don't want to be chipping these things out after they poop
out in six months, do you? if you are encasing it, this is not the time
to save $50 bucks....

i do have a nice hilti chipping hammer you can rent if you need it.... :smile::smile:

randy

 

[mdshunk]

Hadco is not low cost, but they are very high quality.

I can almost see their foundry from my house.

 

[peter d]

the last ones i got were from halo, and about $80 each, with trim.... 110 volt.

A 110 volt model? All the ones I've seen are 120 volts.

 

[Fulthrotl]

A 110 volt model? All the ones I've seen are 120 volts.

yeah, they are imported from bulgaria.... i use them with 125 vac lamps,
and it balances out....

randy

 

[wireguru]

checked out hadco, the have some nice stuff but not what im looking for. Im looking for a wet location version of those louvered ones that go in a single gang box.

 

[peter d]

yeah, they are imported from bulgaria.... i use them with 125 vac lamps,
and it balances out....

randy

I use 240 volt lamps in 110 volt "luminaires" for extra long lamp life, just like the fire station near you.

 

[ctmike]

I use 240 volt lamps in 110 volt "luminaires" for extra long lamp life, just like the fire station near you.

Do you get to double the recomended wattage then???

 

[peter d]

Do you get to double the recomended wattage then???

I think if you halve the voltage then you quarter the wattage.

 

[electricmanscott]

Go with the cheapest you can find and you'll be sorry.

Here are some options from NSL. They have xenon and led step lights. No idea what they cost.

http://www.nslusa.com/index.html

 

[Mr. Bill]

This is my favorite low cost step light. I don't know what the cost is but it's likely going to be over $20.
http://www.lightolier.com/MKACatpdfs/LP.PDF