SATCO Lighting S38975 150W LED Hi-Lumen Temporary Hi-Bay Caged lamp, 5000K, Integrated Cord / Plug & Hook, 120V

Yes. The S38975 comes with an integrated cord and a 3-prong plug, runs on 120 volts at 50-60Hz, and draws 1.250 amps. No driver, no fixture, no hardwiring. Plug it in and hang it by the built-in hook. At 1.25A a typical 15A jobsite circuit will carry several of them, though you should count everything else already on that circuit.

No. The S38975 is rated for indoor, damp locations only. Damp covers a covered parking deck, an unheated warehouse, a basement, or a building that is dried in but not conditioned. It does not cover direct rain or an open exterior wall. If the light will take weather, you need a wet-location rated temporary fixture instead.

15,000 lumens from 150 watts, which Satco rates as a 500W incandescent replacement. That is the practical decision point: you are pulling 1.25 amps instead of roughly 4.2 for the incandescent it displaces, so you can run three or four of these on the circuit that used to carry one temporary string light head.

It hangs on its own. The S38975 is a self-contained corncob-shape LED lamp inside a cage with a hook and a factory-fitted cord and plug, so there is no lampholder, no porcelain socket, and no fixture to buy. The only thing you supply is a 120V receptacle or temporary power drop within reach of the cord and something structural to hang the hook from.

The S38975 throws a 300 degree beam spread, so it is close to omnidirectional rather than a focused downlight. That is what you want for temporary construction lighting in a high bay: hung from the joists or a bar hanger it washes the whole bay including the walls, instead of dropping a tight pool on the slab. The tradeoff is that a good share of the 15,000 lumens goes sideways and up, so for task lighting over a specific work area a directional temporary fixture puts more of its output where you need it.

No on both. The S38975 is non-dimmable and not three-way capable. It is a cord-and-plug lamp meant to run full output off a receptacle or a temporary power distro. Putting it on a dimmed circuit risks flicker and can damage the driver. If your temporary lighting needs to be switched, switch the receptacle circuit, not the lamp.

The S38975 is rated at 50,000 average hours. On a jobsite running 10 hours a day, five days a week, that is close to twenty years of service, so a single lamp outlives nearly any project and moves to the next one. That is the whole economics of switching temporary lighting from incandescent to LED: you stop sending someone up a ladder to change lamps mid-job.

No. The S38975 is not DLC listed, so it will not qualify for utility rebate programs that require DesignLights Consortium qualification. That is normal for temporary construction lighting, which is not intended as a permanent installed fixture. If you are doing a permanent high bay retrofit and chasing a rebate, you need a DLC qualified hi-bay luminaire, not a cord-and-plug temporary lamp.

5000K is daylight white, and it is the standard choice for temporary construction and warehouse lighting because it renders color close to daylight and keeps crews alert. The S38975 pairs that with a CRI of 80, which is enough to read wire colors, match trim, and spot a defect on a finish surface. It is a fixed color temperature, not selectable, so if your facility standardizes on 4000K for permanent fixtures this will read noticeably cooler alongside them.

The base is plastic and steel, and the lens is frosted polystyrene. The steel cage is the impact protection here, which is why this style gets hung in active work areas rather than a bare corncob lamp. The frosted lens diffuses the LED array so you get less glare looking up at it from the floor. It is protection against incidental contact, not a rated impact-resistant fixture, so keep it clear of swinging material and lift traffic.

The orange and white housing is deliberate jobsite identification. It marks the lamp as temporary construction equipment so it does not get mistaken for permanent building lighting at turnover, and it makes the unit easy to spot and count during demobilization. Property managers and facility crews taking over a space should treat anything in that housing as contractor gear to be removed.

Satco publishes both for the S38975. The specification sheet is at media.satco.com/specsheets/pdf/S38975.pdf and the installation instructions are at assets.satco.com under the S38975 product folder. Submittal packages for a GC or an owner should carry the spec sheet; the instructions sheet is what goes to the crew hanging them.