Pool Lights

I can always tell if a pool light is incandescent or LED.  Incandescent lights have a yellowish color and are very bright next to the light fixture and can barely light the other end of the pool. They use 500 watts so they are very hot to the touch.  It is the high amount of energy consumption that produces all that heat.  I am not saying to try to heat your pool with the pool light but all that heat is just wasted energy. Incandescent lights work by heating up a tiny strip of metal that glows bright, giving off light.  The glowing is super-heated metal giving off light. Not the most efficient way to make light, but it works.
Today pool lights are LED. LEDs give off a blue/white color. Like the color of the headlights on a Mercedes. Most likely you have seen this blue/white color in a pool belonging to an HOA.  The code for commercial pools require that the pool and spa lights are on all night, year round. Most Santa Clarita HOAs have replaced all their lights to LED because an LED pool light uses only 70 watts, so they save $300 a year in electricity. This can really add up, as most HOAs have a large pool with three lights, a kiddie pool with one light, and a spa with one light for each location.  The average HOA has three locations.  That’s $4,500 in savings a year.  After the SCE commercial lighting rebate the installed cost is $600, so you can see why they all have changed out their lights; a ROI of 50 percent is a no brainier. A three year bumper to bumper warranty parts and labor clinches the deal.
For your backyard pool you have several LED lighting choices.  White only, or really cool color changing LED lights. If you flick the pool light switch on and off, the LED light fixture will change channels.  Each channel is a different color. You can get white, blue, green, and red.  Blue, green and red can make all other colors so you get a lot of options. They also will do color shows. One is called sunset; it will very slowly change channels going from white to deep red, like the sunset.  Another one will flash red, white and blue 4th of July style. You can also flash all the colors really fast like a disco club.
Now I am just going to toss this out there, I am not sure you can get away with it but it might be worth a try. This holiday season put your LED pool light on a timer and cross “putting lights up” off of your honey do list.
You can go to www.jandjpoolspa.com for more information on colored lights. For more information, call 661-263-7503 or visit www.poolsbyben.com.