SATCO Lighting S13146 30W, LED Garage Utility Light, 5000K, Medium Base, Adjustable Beam Angle

No. The S13146 is an open rated lamp, meaning it needs open air around it and should not go inside a sealed or enclosed fixture. Use it in a keyless socket, a pull-chain lampholder, or an open utility fixture. For a closed globe or jelly jar you need a lamp specifically rated for enclosed fixtures.

It is an indoor lamp with a damp location rating. Damp covers areas with moisture in the air but no direct water contact, so a covered carport or a soffit-protected porch ceiling is within rating. Anywhere rain, spray, or hose water can reach the lamp is not, and you want a wet location fixture there instead.

No, the S13146 is not dimmable, and it is not a three-way lamp either. If it goes into a socket controlled by a dimmer or a three-way lampholder, you will get flicker, buzz, or no start at all. Put it on a plain on/off switch or a pull chain. If the garage circuit runs through a dimmer, the practical fix is to replace the dimmer with a standard toggle rather than hunt for a workaround.

The multi-beam head has panels you fold to set the spread anywhere from 100 to 300 degrees. Fold them down toward the socket and the light concentrates in a tighter cone under the lamp, which suits a workbench or a single bay. Swing them out flat and you get near-full coverage across the ceiling, which is what you want in an open shop or storage room. Because it mounts in any burning position, a wall-mounted or angled socket works too, and you set the panels to throw light where the work is.

3000 lumens from 30 watts, which Satco rates as the equivalent of a 200W incandescent. So one lamp in the middle bay of a two-car garage replaces the dim 60W or 100W bulb that came with the house and covers the whole floor. On a 120V circuit it pulls 0.250A, so a handful of them on one 15A branch is not a problem.

5000K is daylight white, cold and neutral rather than yellow, and it is the standard color for shop, garage, and utility spaces because it makes colors and part numbers easy to read. Color rendering is 80 CRI. The color is fixed on this lamp, there is no CCT selectable switch, so if the rest of your building is on 3000K or 4000K fixtures this one will read noticeably cooler beside them. Standardizing a fleet of garages or storage rooms on 5000K is the usual approach.

Rated at 50,000 hours. On a garage or storage light running roughly three hours a day, that is a service life measured in decades rather than years, which is the whole argument for it in scattered-site rentals and multi-family where the ladder trip costs more than the lamp. It drops into the existing medium base socket, so there is no fixture change and no electrician. Just confirm the socket is not on a dimmer, because this lamp is not dimmable.

Yes, the S13146 is Title 24 compliant, and it is FCC compliant as well. Worth knowing before you spec it: it is not DLC listed, so it will not qualify for utility rebate programs that require a DesignLights Consortium listing.

Both the base and the lens are polystyrene plastic, and the housing is white. That keeps it light enough to hang off a standard keyless socket without a support, but it also means the lamp belongs in indoor, damp-rated locations only. It is not the part for a wash bay, a freezer, or anywhere it takes direct water or physical knocks.

No options to specify. The S13146 comes one way: 30W, 5000K, white housing, medium base. Order by the MPN S13146 and that is the lamp. If you need a different color temperature or a dimmable version, that is a different Satco part number, not an option on this one.