FVTLED Pack of 20 Low Voltage LED Deck Lights kit Dia. 1.38" Outdoor Garden Yard Decoration Lamp Recessed Landscape Pathway Step Stair Cold White LED Lighting, Black

Better than expected and a great value! Nice soft white and just the right brightness and direction to provide accent lighting. Other lights make your deck look like a landing strip, with lights right in your face. These look very professional and the perfect finishing touch to any deck. Ours is an Ipe deck.Install tips:-Use a 3/4 boring drill bit-Layout your proposed locations with tape first-Build a guide with scrap wood so each drill hole is the same hight, do the same to hold the drill level for each drill (see picks)-the maximum space between lights is about 28". If that is too short, you'll need to buy extender cables OR if your doing several sets of stairs, wire them in a zigzag.

These arrived faster than expected, so I jumped into the installation. The lights feel good quality, metal housing, with spring clips to hold them into the hole. I installed these on the step of a detached pergola deck. Had a little trouble with the install as most of the connections had to be made blind (due to limited crawling space under the deck) and when I turned them on for the first time, only two of them worked. I emailed the seller at 19:00 on a Sunday night describing my problem. Imagine my surprise when, less than a 1/2 hour later, I had a reply. Not only did they solve the problem, they went out and tested another string to make sure that the solution would work and provided photos. THESE GUYS ROCK!!!! (Just so you don't have the same problem, polarity matters and the plugs are keyed so they plug in right. HOWEVER, the keys are small, the plugs are flexible and it IS very possible to plug them in the wrong way. This will make things not work past the wrong plug, unless there is ANOTHER plug in wrong in which case the ones after that will work. There are little arrows on the sides of the plugs and as long as these line up, you are golden. trust the arrows, not the keys) The lights look great and provide a good warm white light on the step. VERY pleased with them so far, and can't say enough good about the service received. Photos show the deck in the daylight, (lights are mounted in the face of the step) And the same shot at night with the lights on. Hope this helps!

These lights exceeded all my expectations. Initially I was doubtful whether they would even work for my application which was a long set of outdoor rustic steps that I was building. My experience with low voltage lighting is that the connectors are the weak link and I knew I couldn’t use their connectors (although they did look quite robust for outdoor use) as I didn’t want anything buried that couldn’t be easily accessed when something doesn’t work. Also, my wire lengths were a lot longer and I was concerned by comments in the questions about voltage drop with longer wire lengths. I sent a couple of messages to their customer service and they were very helpful. I even sent my wiring diagram with lengths of each segment and the wire gauge and although it wasn’t typical, they said go ahead and try it. So I bought two sets of 30 lights and used all but two of them.I ganged the two transformer/rectifier outputs together and mounted them on my garage wall. I then used an existing low voltage, 16 gauge light cable to get the 12 volt DC power to the steps. I also bought a 500 foot reel of thermostat wire because it was 18 gauge and had red and white colors so I could always know which were the positive and negative wires. Incidentally, before I started the install, I connected all the lights in one long string using their connectors and then fed the supply voltage through the complete 500 foot reel to the lights and they worked fine so I was pretty confident my design was going to work. If you understand the design of the lights, they are all connected in parallel so if one led fails, the rest stay on. Knowing this and before filling in the step treads with gravel and decomposed granite, I ran the thermostat cable to the bottom end of the steps and then zigzagged it across the back of each riser all the way to the top where I then ran it back down to the starting point. I drilled the 15/16 inch holes for the lights a little deeper than they specify in my 4 by 8 risers and then put a smaller diameter drill through that hole to the back so that at each light I could fold the wire and feed it through the hole leaving about two inches sticking out the front of the riser. Like other users, I cut the light wires a few inches from the light but went a step further and soldered the two positive wires together and then the two negatives to each other. The lights are a much thinner 20 gauge wire and soldering each pair of like wires together made a thicker segment for connecting. The wires on the light have a grey strip on the positive line so if you also cut off their connectors make sure you keep the polarity straight. I did not cut my thermostat wire; instead, I peeled the plastic covering back to expose the fold and about a quarter of an inch of the copper wire and then used the smallest available wire nuts to connect the light wires. The grey striped wire always connected to my red line or positive and the all black wire was the negative (or neutral) connected to my white wire. Because I never cut the supply wire, this approach ensured if the wire nut came loose, only that light would fail. I coiled the wire and connectors into the back of the large hole and popped the light in. I’ve included my wiring diagram in case it’s helpful.The reason for taking the supply line to each end of the steps was to allow me to insert a motion sensor at each end of the steps so the lights would turn on no matter which way a user was going. I did get some basic motion sensors but they didn’t have a day/night control so the lights would come on during the day especially if it was windy. I replaced them with better low voltage dc motion sensors that could switch off completely during the day and these work really well.As I said above, the lights really exceeded my expectations. I didn’t want the staircase floodlit; the intent was to provide just enough illumination that at night time people would be able to clearly see the steps. Because the hillside was a variable slope with the steepest section in the middle, my steps were of variable depth so you really had to see where you were putting your foot. I located the two lights 30 inches apart laterally on each riser so that the main section of the step could be used without potentially kicking a light even though they seem pretty rugged. I was also very careful to keep them all aligned from one step to the next. I’ve included a night time picture although it really doesn’t do it justice. Not only do they look great during the daytime because are compact and unobtrusive and at nighttime are really spectacular, they are also highly functional and were perfect for my application. Coupled with the great customer service, I would recommend these lights wholeheartedly. I hope this helps.

These lights really are amazing. I used them in the stone retaining wall around my patio. My brother thought a professional put them in but nope, who installed them? This gal right here!

I'd been researching several options for adding lighting to my deck stairs. I wanted something simple to install, but also something that performed well. I started off thinking solar was the right way to go, but had concerns about the lights not operating at full brightness at all times. That pushed me back to wired, and low voltage was my first choice. I found this set and for the price, I figured it was worth trying. When the kit arrived, I was pleased by the quality of the housings and overall quality of the system. The lights are small, so they don't dominate the space like some others I'd looked at. In spite of their small size, they cast plenty of warm white light. I originally thought I'd need two per step, but after testing the lights I opted to just do a single fixture per step. This worked out very nicely. The install was a snap. Simply drill a 3/4" hole in each riser and feed the wires through the holes before pushing in the spring tabs that hold the fixture snugly in place without having to drill and set separate screws on each light. Mount the transformer and simply plug each light in the chain into the previous one. Place the weather seal and cap on the last one in the line. Plug the transformer into an electrical outlet and you're done. I purchased a separate dusk-to-dawn sensor to automatically control the lights, making them fully automatic. You can configure them to operate via a switch or remote control of your choosing as other possible options.

Tiny, and limited light cast, just whats in front of it. We used 2 per step and thats fine for us. We live in a poor lit rural setting and these do the job. Nice that theyre low ower coumption. We put them on a lutron timer switch as well.

The set up arrived within reasonable time, it all works and seems to be of decent quality. However, even on the brightest setting, these lights are very dim. I suppose they'd be well suited for stairs. I ordered them to provide accent lighting to a privacy panel on my deck and they are way to dim for that purpose.

They seem a little on the cheap side. But they do work.

The connecting wire between each unit is a fixed length. There is no way to lengthen the connecting wire between the lights.

Nice lights. Put on railing posts on deck

now I can see the stairs on our deck in the evening and they look great

Attractive, easy to install, reliable, not too bright, shines on my deck instead of in my eyes.

Marche du patio très belle lumière

An excellent product will very good customer support. Will purchase again.

efficace

Nice fixture, but maybe too weak light.

Tres facile a installer sur des contre marche. Les fil son assez long

exactement ce que je voulait fonctionne a 100%

Looks great. Easy to install

These work great and look amazing as accent lighting... neighbours were impressed