How to Convert Landscape Holagen Bulbs to LED
Here is a link to purchase new bulbs:
LED:www.amazon.com...
Halogen: www.amazon.com...
This video shows how to convert a MR16 holagen bulb used for landscape or outdoor lighting, to an LED light source. These bulbs were purchased at Home Depot in the light bulbs section of the store. The outdoor lighting department only had halogen bulbs available in the isle. Unless purchasing new fixtures. Since this was an upgrade and the original light housings were in decent shape only the led bulbs were needed.
LED lighting uses a fraction of the electricity needed to power the mr16 halogen bulbs, never become hot to the touch and last much longer. The light is vibrant.
This video will also show how to re purpose old exterior light sight glass. The glass on outdoor lighting can become dirty and only allow a small portion of light being generated by the bulbs to show through. This is do mostly to the natural elements in the environment. (weathering) These lights are located in Florida so they had become sun damaged. But being these were old school metal housing light fixtures they are still very reliable. Also the sprinkler system in the yard of this property had been on well water for over 20 years so that had a lot to do with the condition of several of the sight glass. The time/ transformer on this system is a Malibu 8100-9120-01 and seems to be a good at doing it's job.
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You can use "Barkeeper's Friend" powdered cleaner to clean up the glass. Works great on gas fireplace fogging also!
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Normally when we remove like this,gaskets getting deteriorating and water passing inside the lights later on. What is the reason and how we can overcome this?
@DoItWithDave
5 жыл бұрын
You could try using a bit of clear exterior silicone. Apply a small bead on the inside of cap where the glass touches. and work in with your finger. It should seal it and if you only use enough to cover the edges it should be easy to open the housing later if you need to replace the bulbs. I hope this helps. Thank you for watching!
I have portfolio landscape lights from lowes I just installed and want to change the halogen bulbs to LED bulbs .But all the ones I see say they are for dc controller and my old set was a malibu ac controller also .Can the bulbs that say dc be used on ac controller .I can't see any difference in them .My bulbs that are in there now say T5 on them and item number for the set is 0688428 .I can get the ones for the dc unit really cheap and wonder if it is worth the try to buy them
@DoItWithDave
7 жыл бұрын
sissy murphy I'd say get one and see if it does what you want it to do and if so you can decide to switch all of them out or not. LED is the future using less power, being brighter and never hot to the touch. I hope this helps. Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting. The more we share the more value we bring to each other.
@stinkycheese804
6 жыл бұрын
There are both styles. The ones capable of AC also have a diode in series, and as a result, produce 60Hz flicker running off the old unregulated Malibu 12V transformers. IF you buy some that need DC you have two options: 1) You can unbend the leads and pull the top off and put a diode in series on each. 2) The best option - Put a "bridge rectifier" and large filter capacitor after it in the Malibu box. Size the rectifier capable of more than the typical current, though switching to LED bulbs you reduce current. For example you'll probably want one capable of at least 4 amps considering heat is the issue and they may run in hot outdoor weather. Provide at least a couple thousand uF capacitor rated for 16V or more. HOWEVER, some of the lights designated for 12VDC use a series of LEDs and their power consumption changes extremely with the jump to ~15VDC (at load) rectified from 12VAC. You may find that each light also needs a low ohm series resistor added. This is how some of the generics get away with selling bulbs so cheap, that they make one thing that isn't really correct for all applications then you have to FIX it for yours. The other option is put a single 4A diode on the output of the Malibu transformer. They'll only get half wave power so the average current is reduced and a single diode will handle all LED bulbs without them being modified, but they will have 60Hz flicker. You can still use a capacitor there for smoothing if you like.