mcsvt
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Agreed, this is great, I have a few 8' lights in my garage now and thought I'd have to replace them completely. It looks like I can just retrofit them with 4 LED bulbs and eliminate the ballasts.
I would bet that they are immune to that type of vibration. They don't have a fragile hot wire "filament" like normal light bulbs do.How are the leds with vibration? I live about 3 miles from a coal mine and cannot keep lights in the shop.
I gave 8' 2 tube lights in my shop. Bought 8' led tubes on Ebay. $11 ea. single pin tubes. Just remone the ballast and rewire the pos to one end. Nutral to other end and done. 100* improjement.I just bought a 2-pack box of led direct replacement for the old bulbs for 17.99 at Costco. No mods needed, plug and play.
The price is finally getting competitive on these
I just bought a 2-pack box of led direct replacement for the old bulbs for 17.99 at Costco. No mods needed, plug and play.
The price is finally getting competitive on these
I agree.......dump the ballast. That's what I did.What I don't like about the "direct" bulbs is that you are leaving the ballast on the table which can AND DO fail. Then what? You get to spend more money on a replacement ballast.
If I was replacing tubes, I'd want to rewire (which takes only seconds IE "a couple of minutes" ) and dump the ballast
Where did you buy them from?The lights I was spending $26 on, have been reduced to $20.
I just got around to reading these posts. Question, can the lead bulbs be mixed w/ the traditional 4 ft. flourecent ?I recently had four UV lights in my garage replaced with LED units from SAMS club.
They are more focused than the old UV lights. They are brighter in the area directly below them but make a shadow as you go out away from the light to the walls
They did make the electric bill go down a bit. I know for a fact LEDs reduce the electric bill because I proved that around Christmas last year when I replaced all my Christmas lights with LEDs.
Only the ones that do not require you to remove the ballastI just got around to reading these posts. Question, can the lead bulbs be mixed w/ the traditional 4 ft. flourecent ?
For anyone looking to upgrade their shop lighting to LED, I just got an email from Rural King stating that they currently have their 4’ LED (4500 lumens) on sale for $24.99. They olso have free shipping on any order over $99 so if you don’t have a Rural King nearby, you can order them online.Over the winter I replaced a failed fluorescent unit with an LED light and love it. My local Rural King had them on sale for $30 each (the complete light assy. not just the bulbs) and I bought 2. Another nice thing is it doesn't have to warm up for several minutes like fluorescent bulbs do. My eyes aren't the greatest so I need all the light I can get and man is this thing bright.
Complete fixture.$24.99 for each bulb or fixture?
Sounds like a good deal. Mine were around 20 for 3200 lumens.