SATCO Lighting S11444 14W PAR38 LED, White, 5000K, 1100 Lumens, 120V, PIR Sensor, Non-Dimmable

The sensor is built into the lamp. The S11444 PAR38 has an integrated PIR motion sensor, so it switches on when it detects motion and back off on its own. You screw it into an ordinary medium base socket on a normal switched circuit and leave the wall switch on. No separate occupancy sensor, no wiring change. That makes it a common fix for a stairwell, a back entry, a utility room, or a storage closet where nobody wants to run new controls.

Yes, it carries a Wet location rating and is listed for both indoor and outdoor use, so an exposed soffit can, a porch fixture, or an open flood housing is fair game. Burning position is universal, so it can point down, up, or sideways without affecting the rating.

No. It is non-dimmable, and putting it on a dimmer circuit will cause flicker, buzz, or premature failure. If the fixture is on a dimmer, either replace the dimmer with a standard toggle or pick a dimmable PAR38 instead. The same goes for three-way lamp sockets, this one is not a three-way lamp.

40 degrees is a flood pattern, wide enough to wash an entry, a landing, or a short driveway apron from a single can rather than throwing a tight spot. Paired with the motion sensor, that is what you want for coverage: the light comes up over the whole approach, not a circle on the pavement. For long-throw aiming at a sign or a facade you would want a narrower spot beam instead.

5000K is daylight white, a crisp blue-white. It will not match 2700K or 3000K warm white lamps in adjacent fixtures, and the difference is obvious side by side. Where color rendering matters the CRI is 90, high enough to read paint, wire colors, and finishes accurately under it. For a property manager standardizing a building, keep 5000K to exterior, garage, stairwell, and back-of-house runs and stay warm in the lobby and units.

No, it is not DLC approved, so it will not clear a rebate program that requires a DLC listed product. It is FCC compliant, which is the electronics side, and it is lawful for sale in California. If the job is being written around a utility incentive, the DLC status is the item to check against the program's qualified products list before you commit the quantity.

Skip it there. A self sensing lamp like the S11444 needs constant power at the socket to watch for motion, so stacking it behind another control means the two fight each other and the light behaves unpredictably. Use it where the fixture is dumb and the switch stays on. If the fixture already has its own sensor or photocell, buy a plain non-sensor PAR38 flood and let the fixture do the switching.

Average rated life is 15,000 hours. On a motion sensor lamp the real number stretches well past that in practice, because the lamp only burns when something triggers it rather than dusk to dawn. For an MRO crew, that is the argument for the sensor version in low-traffic areas: fewer ladder trips per year on the same fixture.