'evnin, Volties.
I guess spring is actually on the way. Sundown is getting back to 5PM which is a welcomed change. It's still going to be winter time, with the appropriate weather for another two months or so, but at least there's a noticeable improvement in the amount of daylight.
Tritium, I ordered two different ones from Amazon, both actually shipped from China. The one, a cheapie that included a 30 watt LED as well and made by GLW, worked perfectly. The other one, double the price and no LED, has the same, exact, problem as the originals. I ordered two more sets of driver/LEDs from GLW and another 30 watt floodlight, assembled, also GLW. I also bought a 12 volt, 10 watt, GLW floodlight to fool around with. It'll run on AC or DC and I might give it a try on the tractor for those times when I end up working after dusk. That assumes, and we know what that can do, that it will handle the vibration.
This is the one that worked. I haven' tried the LED, yet, to see if it's warmer white than the 6000K ones I already have running because color temperature isn't that important for my purposes. I will say that a 30 watt LED is easily the equivalent of a 300 watt halogen.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WQO1L7O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is the one that didn't work. I assumed, there's that word again, that being more expensive it would be better designed/filtered, but I was wrong.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXMLWNC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Need a few, noisy, 30 watt LED drivers? I should have ordered more than the one GLW, they are no longer available at the price I paid for the one I have, but they're not all that expensive at the higher price. Why is it hindsight is always 20/20? My plan is to
buy "generic" 30 watt floodlights and swap out the driver if needed.