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1975abody

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Finished wiring my new garage a few weeks ago. Found some cheap LED's on Amazon. The only complaint is the color, which was supposed to be 5000k natural light, but they look to be more towards the cool/fluorescent side of the color spectrum. Other than that they really light the place up.

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I purchased 4 led lights for my small home garage. I am thrilled with how bright it is after having florescent lights for years. Very inexpensive upgrade.
Purchased on eBay for $20.00. Free shipping and was delivered in 3 days.
 
Menards has a cheap ( 20.00 for a 4' )LED shop light, believe its 3300 lumens. switched them in my garage at home. went from 12+ florescent to 5 LED and I feel its brighter now. best part, no annoying BUZZ when its cold.
 
vitamindart said:
Menards has a cheap ( 20.00 for a 4' )LED shop light, believe its 3300 lumens. switched them in my garage at home. went from 12+ florescent to 5 LED and I feel its brighter now. best part, no annoying BUZZ when its cold.
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They had some 4' 5000 lumen units for $25, I grabbed four, should have grabbed four more. I can see the whole garage now, not just under the one light. Moved the old LED unit imto the basement for my model building area, maybe that will jump start my model building.
 
yeah, I grabbed the last one they had of those 5000 lumen ones at my store. really digging how bright these are.
 
I went a different route and feel it is cheaper in the long run. I just use 100W equivalent "soft white" (avoid the blue LOL) screw in LED bulbs "and more of them." You can get larger ones but they ramp up in price steeply. "I feel" this is the best bang for buck at this time.

I believe the ones I buy at HD are 1500 or so lumens, so 2 or 3 of them are equal to what some of you are using above
 
I bought 16. 4 footers.
They can be joined with a small connector.
I put 4 joined together,very happy.
 
1975abody said:
View attachment 1715178852 Finished wiring my new garage a few weeks ago. Found some cheap LED's on Amazon. The only complaint is the color, which was supposed to be 5000k natural light, but they look to be more towards the cool/fluorescent side of the color spectrum. Other than that they really light the place up.
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Now run another string down both corners, and then you will have light.
 
Rural King has 4500 lumen 4 foot fixtures for $26 and 5500 lumen ones for $29, just in.

I have 6 of the 4500 lumen ones but I only have one installed so far.

Way brighter than a 2x F34t8 fixture...kinda hard to look at, even.
 
I built my shop 18 years ago, and I installed 20 4 tube 4 ft florescent units. The old style , with two oil filled ballasts in each unit. They worked ok for maybe 6-7 years, but the bulbs and ballasts would go out regularly. A commercial construction buddy of mine gave me a trash can full of the smaller T8 bulbs, so I removed all the old ballasts, and installed 1 electronic ballast in each unit, and the T8 bulbs. Again, this was fine for about 7 years. I started looking into LED because the elect. ballasts and bulbs were going out. I use my lights every day. At first I just bought 4 Hybrid bulbs, that they claim would work with the existing ballasts, or hard wired. Well they didn't work in the unit I tried, with the ballast. So I pulled the ballast and direct wired the unit. Bingo, worked. But the Hybrid bulbs are about $2 more than the direct wire Led's. So I bought 80 direct wire 5000k ,2000 lumen bulbs from a Texas co. ( 1000 Bulbs ). Paid $6.50 each for em. So I went back into each unit and pulled the ballasts and hard wired them all. Huge,Huge difference in lighting, I even have 2 units mounted on the wall in my lift bay. Makes a big difference working under a vehicle. I'm very happy, and expect these bulbs to last a very long time..:thumbsup:
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vitamindart said:
Menards has a cheap ( 20.00 for a 4' )LED shop light, believe its 3300 lumens. switched them in my garage at home. went from 12+ florescent to 5 LED and I feel its brighter now. best part, no annoying BUZZ when its cold.
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And, instant bright light in cold versus florescent tubes, which don't like cold weather.
 
They had some 4' 5000 lumen units for $25, I grabbed four
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I grabbed a few of those from menards 2 years ago for my basement. Really bright.
 
I have (8) 8' T12 fixtures in my garage that have all been up for the 16 years I have lived there with only a couple of bulb changes here & there. The older I get the brighter I seem to think I need. I may need to upgrade mine to LED's soon. It already lights up the whole neighbor hood at night when I have the door open. I have a heated garage so being cold has never been an issue when I flip on the light switches.

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6PKRTSE said:
I have (8) 8' T12 fixtures in my garage that have all been up for the 16 years I have lived there with only a couple of bulb changes here & there. The older I get the brighter I seem to think I need. I may need to upgrade mine to LED's soon. It already lights up the whole neighbor hood at night when I have the door open. I have a heated garage so being cold has never been an issue when I flip on the light switches.
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Have you seen these: 10pcs 8ft Foot 40w Single Pin FA8 T8 T12 LED Tube Light 6500K White CLEAR LENS 738770564490 | eBay
 
I cant afford led but am goi g to buy the 4 ft for over my work bench.i have 5 8 footers at 65 watts
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If they burn out what do you do? Pull them down and replace the entire fixture?
 
Supposed to last for years.......but time will tell as they say.
 
1975abody said:
Finished wiring my new garage a few weeks ago. Found some cheap LED's on Amazon. The only complaint is the color, which was supposed to be 5000k natural light, but they look to be more towards the cool/fluorescent side of the color spectrum. Other than that they really light the place up.

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Nice what is the size of your shop?
 
usually only one bank of LEDs stops working, depending on how the control circuits are made.

One of mine had six in the middle that didn't work OOTB, so I returned it.
 
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