They are much brighter and better than I was expecting! Great price, not too bad to install. We added another switch inside and now our deck is fancy

super nice lights, well made, just the right brightness and color spectrum, to me they look like the high end places that are installed professionally .Great for stairs and deck posts or railing, not sure they would be bright enough to highlight plants, may choose a spotlight for that. They are set up to be used as a closed circuit with its own inline transformerr that you plug into a regular 110 outlet, kinda like christmas lights, so for someone that is not going to get a separate transformer and run low voltage wiring, and the distance beteween the lights will work ( i think its 3 feet tops- but you can buy extensions...) it would be awesome. I DO have a transformer for low voltage so I cut the connections off ( too bad because theyre nice; but i could not find the lights at this price without them) and because the distances between the lights didnt work with my deck. Piece of cake wiring them, doesnt matter which direction, its low voltage, so polarity didnt seem to be important. Taped the unused lead and hid them under the railing, WELLA! Hopefully they stand the winter around here, its pretty bad. Every light worked, I bought 2 boxes of 10. Do the deck lights, theyre cool

Remote would not connect to the receiver and I got very frustrated. Customer service responded quickly with some suggestions but nothing would work. They sent a new receiver with remote but nothing changed. A couple of months passed and I tried again with customer service, this time they recommended a new battery for the remote and offered to refund the cost of the battery (CR2025 watch battery $5).
Well, IT WORKED and looks great! I am especially appreciative of their quick response every time I wrote and of their generous supply of another remote with receiver and their offer to refund the cost of the new battery. Well, hats off to the customer service crew at FVTLED, as they made me feel like I truly mattered, and that's saying a lot these days. The lights are also pretty cool and exactly what I was looking for.,

I am currently replacing our deck stairs and figured I'd light the treads while I was at it since I have an existing low voltage landscape line that runs underground by these stairs. I couldn't find the exact and specific answer on here on how to do this so figured that I would show some pictures of exactly what I did and hope that it helps you as well. I don't know if this is the right way to do this but the lights work and almost all of my other landscaping lights that are connected on the same run are LED or I replaced them with LED bulbs so I figured why not.

Some info: the treads are 36" wide with two 5/4 deck boards. The risers are 1x8x10 cut to 36" wide so about 7.25" high and 3/4" thick. The lip is about 1-1.5" overhanging each step.

So, I started with a guide. I made a practice hole using a 3/4 spade bit. Then I lined up the template guide and notched it halfway (hard to see notch in picture), in this case 18" for center and drilled my template hole as a guide about an inch inch and half from the top. I made sure that I left room for the outside metal frame of the light to fit with a little space under each stair lip. Another thing too is that I made sure that every riser and tread was screwed in before I started drilling a hole and installing the lights. The 3/4 spade works good and the lights fit snug with just enough to turn them and straighten, if needed. I fed each wire through the hole and the metal springs were snug but did not go all the way past the 3/4 thickness of the riser. I didn't try to pull those out but I guess you could if you wanted. They are snug with the right amount of tension from the metal to the hole interior of the riser so I didn't bother messing with it.

So, after I installed the lights into each board, I then connected them all together. Hopefully, you can see where I only connected one wire from the top step light and connected down and repeated to each light to the last step on the bottom. The lonely wire from the start (or top step) is not connected and there is an extra cap in the box to screw on and protect it from rain, etc.

I literally just did these lights last night so I haven't secured the wires on connected the screw caps on each connection. When I got to the last step, here is what I did. This is the part that I couldn't find a good, solid answer on.

Here is my transformer which turns on about 20 LED lights and 5 incandescent lights all connected together by your typical 16 AWG landscaping wire. It turns on at dusk and turns off after X hours depending on how I have it set up. Usually, longer in the summer, shorter in the winter.

So, you see the pic with the provided DC transformer? Not the outlet plug side, but on the round cable side with the 2 pin connector is where I cut that wire completely off and away from the transformer. Cut closer to the square transformer to leave yourself plenty of wire to work with. Inside that round cable are two little wires. I stripped those two wires and then connected them to a low voltage connector as you can see in the picture (the raw wires not taped yet, lol). Then, I connected the low voltage connector to my existing low voltage underground wire. Then, I plugged in the 2-pin round connector into the last stair light and bam, they turned on!

As you can see, they put off enough beautiful warm light for 36" treads.

Again, I don't know if this is the right way to do it or how long these will last, but I've had the other LED-based lights and the incandescent fixtures that I replaced with LED bulbs all going on about 5 years now without any issues.

The 4 stars is because I've only had these running for a day so I want to wait and see how they perform and appear after some rain, etc. But, needless to say, I am impressed with the ease of installation and the glow of these lights without being to bright and blinding

I sincerely hope this helps someone in the same situation or similar because I bought these on a whim and got lucky. Thanks.

Smaller than expected but works well and looks great ðŸ‘