Smaller IS better Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Those Intex 110 volt underwater LED lights. They are very bright but they do attract bugs like any outdoor light. At first I tied them into my yard light circuit but they attracted too many bugs to the pool every night. The outside part works off a 12 volt adapter. The inside part has the LED's. The power passes through the pool wall like a Microwave or something. They stick together on the wall by three powerful magnets. No cutting through the wall or anything. Takes several pounds of force to pull them apart. You can slide the outside unit up and down the wall and the underwater unit will follow. Kids like to yank the inside unit off the wall, then it floats to the surface, the outside part will fall off on the ground. Placing the lights near the bottom of the pool saves the outside unit from falling very far if kids keep pulling the magnets apart. If you don't line up the magnets properly the inside part won't light up. As you pull it off the light gets dimmer. Water cools the LED's so must be placed underwater. I bought 2 of them to prevent shadows and not look "cheap". The light is as bright as a compact flourescent bulb and (unfortunatly) has about the same poor color quality. However at the far end of my 14 foot pool the light becomes a deep rich blue. At night the outside of the Easyset pool glows like a flying saucer ( light passes through the vinyl liner ). It's weird, I heared the neighbor teenagers talking about it saying "that's cool" Again, the lights work great, very bright (hurt your eyes to look directly at the LED's ) but they definetly will attract more bugs trying to get to the underwater lights. Buy it again? You bet, great underwater light solution I've been searching for. Magnets hold pieces on wall, power passes through liner, no cutting, easy to move anywhere on the pool. Does not need a flat section of pool ( mine is round pool ). I Hope Intex improves the light quality, maybe offer an underwater yellow bug light ( bugs don't see yellow ). Bought at Target 50 bucks each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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