Pool lights

Same thing happened to us, 2 in the pool and 1 in the hot tub... ALL 3 went out less than a year after we had our pool installed.

not much better results with the Hayward color logic. 4.5 years and we've replaced each of them twice. 3 year warranty but we are covering the bill now.

Just had our pool lights replaced few weeks ago. From what I understand, they were installed when pool was built 8 or so years ago. I suppose that’s a decent lifespan.

They worked fine when we moved here last year and good colors. Starting this spring, they quit syncing correctly. Purple and red became dull pink. All the blues and greens were one dull green. And one light was very dim.

I decided to pull the trigger, though it cost a pretty penny. But I like having the pool flash red, white, blue for July 4th and having lights purple and gold during football season weekends. And I use them quite a bit if we’re sitting out back late evenings. We have 3 niche-less pool lights and a separate spa light… I don’t know which brand though

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I had visions of purple and gold/yellow lights when we had our pool installed with the IntelliBrite LEDs. Afterwards, we find out they don’t do yellow.

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Ours has setting called “emerald rose”… unexpectedly it looks golden. I use it in the spa and make the pool lights purple. Together they look almost perfect (for LSU fan).

What’s the going rate for that?

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Lights were 2k. Saved 3k installling them myself after about 2 hours of labor

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What’s the going rate for that?

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I paid about $2200 for lights and installation labor. Also took them about two hours in total. Maybe quicker.

We use the lights a lot and really like them. It’s very worth it for me, though I understand people who don’t use them or want to pay to replace.

These are such a racket. I don't have a pool but I've helped on my dads lights plenty of times. I've never understood how they can't make them to where you just drain the pool part of the way down and replace a $100 sytem very easily. Its just a racket to rake people and force them to use their pool guys.

Apparently there is an off market brand that fits the pentair niche. Seamless so won’t leak. They are on Amazon and cheaper like 349 per. Changing them is very easy. Just need to tie them to the wire and fish them through the conduit. I did it with ease first time…..

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Globrites are terrible...each one died once during warranty period and was replaced with a new globrite...then, after warranty period ended, the replacement globrites also died over time so I replaced them all with microbrites ...I complained enough that I got the microbrites for free, and just had to pay for installation. All this happened over a three year time frame.

So, far, one of the microbrites are acting up after a year (ie, not being the color it us supposed to be)...but won't be surprised if I have issues....I think Pentair sucks.