GKOLED 30Watt Bullet LED Spotlight, Narrow Beam Angle COB LED Round Spotlight, 5000K Daylight White, 3350 Lumens, 120-277V, Outdoor Flag Pole Spot Lights Fixture, UL Listed

Like: I wanted a narrow beam LED spotlight with enough radiated power to brightly light a 150 foot driveway and the building at its end. This light did everything I hoped for and more, using just 30 watts. You cannot look back at the light without losing your night vision for a while, in fact it is quite unpleasant to look at if you are in the beam at night. This should be considered when selecting placement. The first photo shows the light on a pylon welded from 3 9-foot pieces of rebar, with 2 feet buried. The second photo shows that the pylon was mounted about 2 feet above the driveway, giving a total mounting height of 9 feet above ground level. This prevents anyone from being directly illuminated at close range. The second photo is a telephoto shot from about 25 yards. Taken at about noon in full sunlight. Negative: This light uses the normal 115/125 volt power you have in your house. You will have to either have an outlet with a GFI handy near the place where you place the light or you will have to bury the conductors safely deep in the ground using conduit. I chose to use conduit and turning boxes to maintain a water tight seal right op to the light. The light does allow a water tight fitting right into the light housing. The negative aspect of all this is the amount of labor required to run all the conduit, pull cables, etc. This is NOT low voltage light and cannot be used with the low voltage wiring you typically use for landscape illumination. Low voltage cable is usually rated for 30 volts, which the required voltage easily exceeds. When wiring the light it is useful to add in a switch in a dry location and place the Ground Fault Breaker "upstream" of this switch. This is a serious light source capable of projecting a narrow and powerful beam a long ways. You must consider your neighbors, assuming that you have some and avoid aiming the light such that it illuminates their house(s). They would probably be irate. In summary: Other than the hassle of having to run line power to the light through PVC conduit, and the care needed to aim the light carefully, the only other concern is to make sure that the mounting is rigid and able to withstand wind and rain. The light is waterproof, but the mounting and whatever it is attached to must be rigid or the beam will wander around, which may be less than valuable to you and again has the potential to bother neighbors. I am very happy with my purchase, and it provides better performance than I expected. Hey, you wanted a powerful spotlight that only uses 30 watts. These are the cautions you would have to take with any 120 VAC power line and its mounting, whether it is LED based or uses other less efficient sources.

this light is truly made for the outdoors and is truly a spot light as opposed to a flood light. the housing of the led is heavy duty and should stand up in outdoor inclement weather over time. i've only owned this for about a month, and winter has not started yet, so time will tell if this is a good value or not. so far, so good. it's perfect for lighting up a flag on a flagpole without lighting up anything else that may be nearby. do be careful on which model you get. the 20w model is not a spot light. this review is for the 30w model with a 22 degrees of light coverage. this works perfectly for my application, since the people who originally built this house located the flag pole too close to the house and garage. i no longer have light coming in through my windows from a cheap halogen flood lamp that cost too much money to run. the led works well and lights up my flag very well. any brighter would be too much light. and due to the 22 degrees. it is a white light, which is what i was looking for. it will not augment the colors of what you are lighting up like those soft/warm yellow lights do. the wires are about 10 inches in length with gives you plenty of slack to work with. my only ding is that they are only 18 gauge. would of liked them to be at least 16, but 18 will work just fine if you are hooking it up to romex coming from your garage/house breaker panel.

I was wondering why this is more expensive than the landscape lights, but now I see why. This GKOLED spotlight is much larger when you see it in person, compared to how it seems the product photos. It is made of tough metal. 30W is about double the power of most of the common "strong" landscape lights. When I read the reviews I noticed that some people complained of a wide beam pattern, rather than a narrow beam. I looked at the beam closely, and the manufacturer's diagram appears correct in that the center of the beam is much stronger than the perimeter. So this is like a hybrid of intense spotlight + gentle flood. This is actually a nice effect because the center beam makes the flag bright, and the less intense spillover provides some ambient lighting for the surrounding trees etc. to make a smooth transition rather than a harsh border effect. The color temperature is cool white, but it is not too blue like the cheap LEDs. This lights up the flag on our 20 foot pole nice and majestic! Note that this will need to be mounted a 120V electrical box, as it does not include the stem or plug in cord.

Wow, light is bright! It’s been the best light option so far for illuminating Old Glory. The 20° beam angle is still a big wider than what’s needed for a flag pole but it does the job. There is a little illumination of the top of the pecan trees nearby (within 20ft), but no shining on the house. After 6 months of use the light failed. Water got into the housing, shorted out the LED and caused the electrical box to fill with water. I contacted GKOLED via telephone and they replaced it under the 5-year warranty free of charge. Based on other reviews it seems like the waterproof seal seems to fail around the glass lens, especially when it’s aimed towards the sky rather than horizontally. To fix this issue I ran a bead of waterproof silicone around the edge of the glass lens and metal lip of the new light. I don’t foresee any water getting back inside the light. If the warranty didn’t cover replacement of the light I would have been extremely dissatisfied with this purchase, however, replacement was easy. It’s a 5 star light for sure.

It's a nice bright LED and appears well made, but the beam is not as focused as I had hoped. Somewhat between a spot light and a flood light. The beam does light up the flag on my 25-foot pole, but not as bright as I wanted. Still, it's much better than most of the so-called flagpole spotlights out there.

Amazing improvement over previous MH light! I installed this 30 W, 3350 Lumen, 20 deg. beam Jan 18, 2020. Replaced a 12" X 12" X 10" fixture on 1/2" steel conduit. This unit is so much smaller and light weight made R & R very easy. Lighting a 6' X 9' winter and 8' X 12' summer US flags. Color at 5000K is very good. Light is 8' from pole and aimed near vertical to the flag, top of pole at 28'. (Pole is actually 40', the light is mounted on a building edge at 12' off the ground) From the street to the pole the light is directly behind the flag yet lights the flag very nicely regardless of fly direction. A second LED to either side would result in Spectacular lighting but placement is too difficult. Nearly 11 months continuous service (with solar cell control) and I've not experienced any problems. Previous repair to the MH 4/4/2015 req'd ballast/starter and bulb, cost $120. And until this LED installation I'd replaced two 175W bulbs and a photocell for another $73.11. I am expecting continuing high quality light and increasing $ savings.

This light fixture arrived quickly and exceeded my expectations. The metal housing appeared well made and was free of any visual defects. The finish was also better than expected. The light is heavy, compared to "plastic" bodied models but still easy to handle and install. The light output was very good and we were able to illuminate a 60 ft high flag pole for about 75 ft away. The spot could be a little tighter but overall it was very good. I would recommend this fixture if you need a "spot" light for long distances.

The light is fine and you'll find plenty of reviews about that part, its why I picked it. My review is about how it mounts. Its heavy. It comes with a 1/2" male conduit fitting. I figured this would simply screw into a piece of 1/2" rigid metal conduit utilizing a coupling. Then it would be plenty strong, right? Nope, the male fitting on the light is NPS threads. Most all electrical boxes, pipe, & couplings are NPT. "Both NPT and NPS have the same thread angle, shape, and pitch (threads per inch). However, NPT threads are tapered and NPS threads are straight (parallel). While NPT and NPS threads will engage, they do not seal properly with each other." So where I wanted a good tight connection at the end of a rigid pipe for this HEAVY light, I didn't get one. I thought about returning it but was able to screw it into a weatherproof box. It's not tight. I then used the included locknut on the outside of the box, as a jam nut. I wanted to use a better locknut, but none of the 1/2" locknuts I had would thread onto the male shaft of the light. The end result doesn't move, but I'm concerned over time it will. It's not as sturdy as it should be for this heavy light mounted up high in the gable of the carport. Time will tell! So.... not sure what the manufacturer design team was thinking here. Why not supply the fixture with NPT threads? If you are using it for a flag where its mounted on the ground aimed at the flag, it might be fine. I'm using it as a spot light on the entrance to my driveway to deter unwelcome visitors. It does that job well.

Light was much brighter and wider than expected. Spread is much more than 20 degrees. Super bright. Also should have read better as no ground post or mounting post is included.