Moonrays 95540 Low Voltage Path Lighting Kit with Power Pack

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000Y4BU8S
• Item model number: 95540
  

By : Moonrays
List Price : $66.30
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Product Description

From the Manufacturer
This kit has the traditional outdoor lights we know and two extra floodlights. It comes with 12 Tiered black plastic fixtures and 2 black plastic floodlights. It includes bulbs for each fixture. It comes with 75 feet of wire designed specifically for outdoor lighting, it is 18 gauge low voltage cable. Most importantly, the control unit(power pack) is rated at 60 watts, perfect for this amount of lights. The unit is sun-light controlled(photocell operated) for dusk to dawn operation. All of the light fixtures use replacement bulb 95503( 4-watt wedge base bulb). The tiered light fixtures are 97171, and the flood lights are 97172
Plastic low voltage light kit, 14-pack, includes (12) black plastic tier lights,(2) black plastic floodlights, 60 watt control unit, 75 feet of low voltage cable, and (14) 4 watt wedge base bulbs. Control unit is photocell operated. Dusk to dawn operation, uses replacement bulbs 95503.

 

Moonrays 95540 Low Voltage Path Lighting Kit with Power Pack

 

Technical Details

• Add light to walkways, steps, and curbs
• Completely waterproof construction
• Photocell sensor automatically turns lights on at dusk and off at dawn
• Includes bulbs and bonus deck mount
• Traditional path lighting kit with bonus spotlights

Customer Reviews

Like others have stated with these type of lights and systems, is you get what you pay for. Don't get me wrong, they are not horrid, but by no means are they a great system. The problem with Moonrays is the connection. It is made at the light bulb base where there are two pins under the base that pierce the cable. The problems are: The cable that comes with this unit is a very small gauge (18 Gauge is what is supplied despite the picture showing 16 Gauge). In order for the pins to hit the wire when the cable is pieced they have to be perfectly aligned. I learned from other reviewers and just bought some 14 Gauge wire instead, which gave me the desired thickness of copper to work with while maintaining flexibility when trying to bend the wire and push the pins into it. To keep the transformer on to check each connection I simply used a small piece of electrical tape over the sensor. I used a small nut driver to push the cable up into the light base pins while using the base of another (screwdriver) to hold the top part (where the light bulb goes) into place. Also contacts for the bulbs come very close together, are easily bent. If the bulb doesn't light after some manipulation of the bulb, pull the bulb base off, look at the wire and likely you'll see the perforations were off kilter, though with the 14 or 12 gauge wire this should not be a problem. Use your screwdriver to bend the pins in the proper direction and try again (but don't push the cable up into the housing with anything that will conduct electricity if you still have the transformer on. Having a voltmeter handy is nice, so if still the bulb doesn't lite, you can check the voltage across the bulb contacts. On a couple of mine it was hard just to get the bulb to contact properly and that's what was wrong even though the cable connection was good. Don't stake any of the lights down until all are connected and all are lit.
Once you get the idea of what your doing on the first light, the rest are quite easy to install. Unplug the transformer... install light, plug in to check if it works... repeat until finished.
Now all this works great for the pathway lights, the spot lights are another matter entirely. What a major pain in the butt to get installed. The major problem with the spot lights is there is no cam (the little thing that in the pathway lights, helps to keep the cable connected to the pins) for use in these. You push the pins and cable together, and attempt to set the "correct" angle for your spot lights, and place in the ground, the problem comes that if you Move the angle in which the spot light is set in the slightest without some major coordination of moving the cable along with it, the pins will come right out of the cable and your back to square one. Major flaw in setting these up. Setting up the two spot lights took longer than setting up the pathway lights.
So only 3 stars for this product, minus one star for the crappy 18 gauge wire they sent, and I had to go out and buy 14 gauge wire. Minus another star for the shoddy spot lights.
Otherwise, it was a fairly simple set up. I haven't had any problems with my transformer blowing yet, so do not know as to the longevity of the product.
If anyone knows of a link to finding decent / equivalent LED's for these lights, please let me know. Getting into Lumens / mCd vs Watts is a whole other story.

I bought this through Amazon. This is the third type that I have bought. This was by far the easiest one to hook up. Also, with the connection taking place as it does, it is less likely that the wires will become disconnected when accidentally hit as some of my others have. The only down side is that the power supply did malfuncation after about 3 weeks. However, after I contacted the company (not through the number included in the package but one I found on the internet), they sent me another power supply that had a higher voltage. Since then, no troubles.
The number included with the material is just an office number not very helpful with my problem at all.