Feit Electric NL5/LED Rotating Night Light with Sensor
by Feit Electric
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Feit Electric NL5/LED Rotating Night Light with Sensor
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: Better for basements, etc., but not perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
One room of my basement has no ceiling light fixture, and trying to get to the floor lamp I plugged in can be a little perilous. Also, I keep the cats' litterbox in the basement, and didn't want them to have to deal with pitch dark (I know, I know), but also didn't want to leave a light on all the time. So LED nightlights it was!
I started with the kind that just looks like a flat glowing square, which my dad uses to light the path he takes when he gets up in the morning and doesn't want to turn on the lights. Those work fine for that purpose, because his eyes are already adjusted to the dark, and he's really just trying to avoid walking into walls. They weren't enough to illuminate anything for me, though, as I was coming from a well-lit first floor down into the basement, and my eyes weren't yet adjusted. So I gave him the two flat lights I'd purchased, and bought this one, which looked a bit brighter.
It is brighter! It's not as bright as a similarly sized conventional night light, and it does have an eerier blue cast to the light, but it's bright enough that I can get to the floor lamp safely, and I don't have any guilt about the cats going down to the basement.
My only complaint is with the sensor. Most of the time it works fine, but sometimes it gets confused and turns off when an object passes in front of it. This is a problem if the object is me, walking toward the floor lamp, and I'm suddenly plunged into darkness.
Nonetheless, I think this is a great option if you need a night light that'll be on much or most of the time, especially if it'll be used even when it isn't actually night.
Customer Review: Bright Night Light
Summary: 4 Stars
I would have liked a white plastic cover/lens instead of clear. This light has 3 LED 0.6W bulbs & would be too bright as a bedroom night-light (for me) but I use it in the living room so I don't have to turn a room light on if I get up at night. I removed the clear plastic cover (held on by 3 small screws), sanded & painted the inside of the cover, then screwed it back on to tone down the "glare" of each little bulb. The inside of the clear plastic cover is ribbed but the little bulbs are still bright if you look toward the night-light, so I painted the inside of the cover. If you plug it into an outlet that is behind something else, so you don't see the night-light directly, it wouldn't need painting.
It measures 4 1/2 inches tall and 1 3/8 inches wide (if you don't rotate it sideways). It sticks out 1 5/8 inches from the wall when plugged in.
I like the light sensor. When it gets dark, the night-light automatically comes on. When there's light, it automatically turns off.
I like that its energy efficient.
The light rotates at the plug, which I have no use for. You can plug the light in, then turn it sideways to the left or right so it is horizontal to the floor. Someone may need this feature but it seems like a waste of production cost which only adds to the price. Both prongs of the plug are the same size so you can plug it into the top or bottom receptacle of your electric outlet irreguardless of its rotating feature.
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: hollister - bob
Summary: 4 Stars
We were were looking for a real bright night lite for a long hall way. This product provided a bright lite at first but after 40 days or so the bright LED light were very much reduced.