MELPO Led Flood Light 500W Equivalent, RGBW

I LOVE these lights. I’ve used them indoor for parties and outdoor for Halloween and Christmas to really set off our other lights/displays. They work so well.
They’re durable. they have been drenched, baked, and frozen here in our Kentucky weather. And they hold out! They’re bright, vivid, easy to set up. Nice sized, big impact lighting but still small enough to hide in landscaping. The remote has many color options and settings, and during non holidays I use the “daylight” setting to light up our exterior, which is a nice clean warm white look.
I would (and have) bought these over and over again. Great price, especially if you catch them on sale. Well worth it.

Bought 6 lights for outside security and ambience. 1 remote was a dud, but have several more to rely on. Looking forward to years of service with significantly lower electric consumption.

Right away, I was impressed with the overall durability, feel and look of these. They there very bright with lots of options to change color and brightness. I custom mounted the angle bracket that’s attached to it, to another piece of wood so I could use it as a stake in the yard.

I bought these in 2022. Use them for Halloween, Christmas, and one year round as uplighting on my Japanese Maple. They still work great including the remote. Fantastic purchase. Bright. Water resistance and snow resistant. Love them

I bought 2 sets of these (4 lights total). They all worked well so far. They cast a ton of light. I would say more light than the usual incandescent ‘christmas’ floodlights from NOMA. The colours are great and the remote works well. I had them out for halloween and it rained a bit on them, no problems so far. They are grounded, so you’ll need 3-prong extension cords (and you will need extension cords). My only complaint is that other than “all colour mode”, the light changing settings are crap. It gives you 3 pre-sets that change between 2 pre-set colours each. It has a custom mode, but the light kind of flashes in between changes. It’s too bad that the fading modes are so limited, but not a deal breaker. I will likely buy 2 more of these lights

I ordered multiple sets of these lights to light up the outside of my house. Unfortunately two of the lights did not work. I e-mailed the customer service center using the email on the box and was pleasantly surprised when I got a response within 12 hours. They asked for a picture of the product, my Amazon order number and my address. I sent that in and again within 12 hours they sent two replacement lights that worked as advertised. First email was sent on Monday evening and the lights arrived on Thursday afternoon. They are easy to set up and provide a beautiful glow to the outside of my house I most definitely would have given an overall five if all of the lights initially worked. I’ve read some reviews that are dreadful about customer service issues on other products (not with this company) but this interactive was very positive and they did what they said they would do when they said they would do it

I purchased the 4 pack of these Melpo 500W equivalents lights, specifically for Halloween, to add a fire effect to the decorations. I have four large skeletons, and the plan was to put one light under each skeleton. Per the merchandising, they have multi modes, flash, and 120 colors. My plan was to program this to cycle through red, orange, and yellow – not at strobe speed, just a calm but brisk flashing. Unfortunately, they aren’t going to work for this application. These may be great for indoor parties, or if you only want a static color, or don’t mind fussing with the remotes.

Positives: They are very bright, they have sturdy aluminum (?) cases, and support is very responsive.

Cautions:
– there are no seals around the glass edges, and I do worry that these will leak (I question the IP66 rating).
– to use these outside, you’ll need a large piece of wood or equivalent, as the mounting bar is basically a solid strap with holes in it. I had planned on using two pieces of pressure treated wood

The deal-breakers for me were power and (lack of) programming.
(Power) These lose their memory if they lose power and need to be re-programmed. Since my decorations are all on a timer, I would need to run separate “always on” power to each light, or go out every night and re-program them. Which leads to the next issue:

Programming: Despite the marketing, these have *very limited* programability. The timer function works by starting at the actual time. (Example: If you want the lights to come on every night at 8PM, this means that **AT** 8PM, you need to use the remote, set the colors and patterns, and then set the start and duration.) (There are no brains or clocks in these, only simple timers set from “NOW”). In my use case, the (very brief) instruction pamphlet didn’t help and I had to contact support. Although they were very helpful, they confirmed that the programming functionality of this is limited. The flash feature went roughly from a strobe to a railroad crossing flasher with no real in between, and there’s no way to program individual delays between colors. This occurred with all four, so it wasn’t a defective unit.

Setting the three colors meant fiddling with the remote to find each color, choosing the colors, storing them, and then going through the whole programming sequence, outside, in view of the IR receiver, while plugged in and powered on. After doing this, I was not happy with the effect, and even less that they are high maintenance … example: if the power were to go off – like in the case of this evening’s storms, I have to repeat the entire process again.

So, as I say…. if you want a static color, or are OK with the limited stock patterns, and don’t mind babysitting these, you may be OK. Beyond that, these are not likely to be useful.