@narfcake check the URL

@dave Yes, but it’s not advertised as such. The title says this is 6-for-Tuesday – hence my gripe.

@narfcake It’s three 2-packs. Happy?

@mike808

Ugh. Joke fail- I wrote the comment before I read the write up. Mehbe Westek is Wolfgang’s little brother.

@mehcuda67 Well it’s a gang of pucks. That’s all I got joke-wise.

@cengland0 ah mellow yellow

@cengland0 Yet not yellow enough.

@cengland0 Common mistake to believe that whiter light is better. Many HID lights are too far up the blue spectrum and actually reduce vision. These will provide a nice accent without harsh shadows

@cengland0
Not really. In my living room I switched out 3000K and replaced it with 2700K.
2700K looks like good old incandescent, nice and warm. 3000K is more like halogen.
I got some 5000K under the kitchen counter when I need a crisp light for cutting up stuff.
5000K-6000K is often called daylight, probably because it is the color (and temperature) of the sun.
This is however not the color of a nice sunny afternoon where vegetation adds some warm color tones, it’s the color of the sun hitting you in the face while you lay in a dried out salt lake wondering why you didn’t bring more water.
6000K are worklights, shop-lights, harsh light for sewing or soldering or if you want to recreate the ambience you got from the very first CFLs. Also nice if you want to screw up someone’s sleep cycle.

@tightwad Please tell that to my neighbors who all seem to use the blue-hued lights in their outdoor fixtures and now my neighborhood looks like a stadium lit for a night game.
I swear they must have read the description on the package that said “daylight” and they said “Yep, I want my yard to look like it’s daylight out!”
I used to be able to see the stars at night, now it’s SO bright outside that a burglar could be sitting on their porches and I would never visually see him due to the glare of these way-too-bright bulbs. Fools!

@Kerig3 Daylight does not mean the lights are brighter than any other bulb. That’s why you need to also look at the lumens ratings.

@Kerig3 I have some motion activated solar lights that produce very stark white light, but they are pointed at the ground in my back yard, so unless they are triggered by a passing cat they stay off, and there’s no glare from the bulb. I bought some extremely bright daylight multi led bulbs for my detached carriage house/garage,these things are crazy bright, turned my dim garage to a freaking operating theater. But I only turn them on maybe once a week when I need to go in there at night and these things leave nowhere to hide so I feel much safer with them.

@cengland0 Yes, but lumen are rated towards our vision. Blue appears brighter than red and therefore gets a higher lumen rating.
If you take two otherwise identical LEDs, coat one with a phosphor that produces a nice light and one that produces crappy-blue-prison-daylight the latter will receive a higher lumen rating and sell better.

@formfeed Agreed! It’s that blue spectrum of light that makes it seem brighter as our eyes are more sensitive to light at that end of the spectrum. Average people are not bothering to learn this stuff when purchasing LED lighting, they’re just subject to a marketing department.

@5665150 bought it. Yay. That was my jammed-meaty-animal

@cranky1950 Really? It makes me want to press alt+F4

@awk Damn, now I’m tempted to buy these. Puck you very much.

@slag True, but was that the question?

@Kyser_Soze Does only the enlarged version of the orange rhyme with “door hinge?”

@eeterrific Are you absolutely sure you didn’t mean Horse Pucky?

@koeniginator Seriously! Even if that dig is intended as “just like us!” meta…seriously. What a jarringly joyless and out of place piece of copy.

@borisparsley Hear, hear. Kept me from buying a set tonight.

@harveydanger I bought battery-operated sticky lights that look like these for my closet. They were from one of those fancy member warehouse places and they take 3 AAA batteries each. I think I got at most 20 minutes of light out of them before they were kaputt. Meh-be there’s a better version out there.

@talv0002 Not that I’ve been able to find- I bought a whole set that was switchable by a battery-eating remote, so they all came on together, but they all died separately. :

@talv0002 3 AAA’s will last many hours with LED bulbs. Were the pucks incandescent?

@aerosquid Um, I don’t think so. They couldn’t have been, could they? Such is life. However, in one of my all time greatest “think ahead” moments, I used Command adhesive strips to put them up in my closet. So, doubt I’ll ever get motivated to peel them off, but if I do, meh-nimal paint touch-ups after the fact.

@PhysAssist Oh, the set I bought also came with a little remote. Sames!

@harveydanger Dollar Tree sells various battery operated stick on lights. I think they are incandescent right now but I’m sure leds are on the way. They aren’t very bright but if the space is very dark they are a big help.

Nope, they have leds right now. Have to look for some of these. You can get shipped a case of 24 for $24 if you don’t want to go to the store.

@moondrake Thank you!

@slipperyp Too funny!

@mike808 Fresh Kid Ice RIP

@Jorgisven They’re 3-packs, so it’s a 2-for already.

(See my gripe last night.)

@ignoramus I suspect that the 5 watt spec refers to the power supply output. The lights draw 1.3 watts each (according to the specs on one of the photos) and each transformer will handle up to 4 pucks, or 5.2 watts total.

@ignoramus I suspect (although I admit I might be wrong) that the confusion comes from how LED lights are advertised in comparison to standard incandescent bulbs. LEDs use about 1/4 of the energy of the traditional kind. So what I think the specs are saying is that you use 1.3W of electricity to get the same 800 lumens output as a standard 5W bulb. (1/4 of 5 is 1.25, rounding up to 1.3) Did that help?

@sreing i’m not sure but seems logical thanks

@theredtiburon

Amazon: ~$20 for 3.
Meh: $15 for 6.

To quote this listing:

Price Comparison
$39.96 (for 6) at Amazon

@theredtiburon unless you’re a VMP