Feit Electric NL5/LED Rotating Night Light with Sensor
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Feit Electric NL5/LED Rotating Night Light with Sensor
Customer Review: Super bright the first few days
Summary: 4 Stars
After a week or so the light became approximately 30% dimmer and stabilized. Still the three LEDs provided enough light for the area, and the sensor works perfect.
My wishes: I went to our local Walmart. They had quite a few LED night lights available, and cheaper as well. Sure they are not as stylish as the ones made by Feit. But with the money we spend on the light, I wish to be able to have more choices on the color of the light. Currently most LED bulbs, including the Feit ones, only emit this rather harsh bluish light. Personally I prefer a warmer color, a bit closer to a traditional night light.
Customer Review: Useless!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this about 10 months ago and last month it started flickering. It's now a useless piece of junk!Customer Review: What I received was not as shown, but still pleased with purchase
Summary: 4 Stars
I ordered this product from Amazon, thinking I'd get the night light depicted in their ad. What I received was different...looks like this instead: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Fu9zWxveL._AA160_.jpg
However, the description on the website fits, so I think it is just an incorrect picture. Nevertheless, I was pleased with the "#NL5" I received. The wall plug is on a commutator that allows you to rotate the light at a 360 degree angle parallel to the wall and the diffractor casing also rotates 360 degrees and one side is opaque, so that you can direct the light. The 3 LEDs are quite bright, so I found it helps to have the opaque side facing the front, making it a little easier on the eyes. However, if you need more light, you can angle the translucent side towards the ground while the opaque side shields the harsh light from your eyes at night.
Note that as is the case with all LED lights, they lose about 1/3 of their initial brightness after about a month of use, after which the output stays roughly constant for the remaining 50-100,000 hours of their life. Having the adjustable beam angle makes it easy to make adjustments after the initial brightness fades.
This light has a photocell which turns the light on and off and will even dim the light depending on the ambient light. However, I find Feit's dimmers a little insensitive. As is the case with the Theatre-style #NL6, these lights tend to remain lit when there is ample ambient light, but at least they are always on when you need them. The downside is that the lights may use more electric & burn out sooner than anticipated because they're often on when you don't need them.
Because of those minor quirks, I can only give this light 4 stars - but I certainly recommend it. Since I have switched to all CFL lighting in my house, these little night lights have helped by replacing the need to switch on the CFL in the middle of the night for less than a minute at a time. That will probably add months and years of life to my CFL bulbs, as CFL are sensitive to being used for less than 10 minutes at a time.
Customer Review: Works Fine
Summary: 5 Stars
To my eyes, this light is 50-75% brighter than the NL4/LED from Feit, and the light (with the translucent portion of the shade rotated towards your room) is much whiter (bluer, or colder color temp.) and sparklier than the NL4/LED. After trying both, I will use this stronger light for my larger areas (like long halls, kitchen, unoccupied living room) where sleeping and TV viewing are not conducted, and the NL4/LED for the latter.
As of 5/8/08, the illustration given by Amazon for this light, as other customers have noted, is the wrong one. This light has a tubular barrel, mounted parallel to the floor; it is NOT shaped like a turtle clinging to the wall and parallel to it :-) .
Customer Review: after two months it is useless
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought one and I liked it - fairly bright and it twists a variety of ways so that you can light whatever path you want. So I ordered three more for the entire hallway in my basement.
About two months later they got dimmer - as expected. But I didn't know they would get so dim that they are now useless.
One of the four I bought also stopped working completely.