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I replaced all my worn out flourescents with the same ones.
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I would normally balk at replacing the entire fixture, but in CA, they're pricing the fluorescent bulbs so high anyway - to "encourage" people to replace their old fixtures with newer bulb styles - that I'll probably go this route.
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I would normally balk at replacing the entire fixture, but in CA, they're pricing the fluorescent bulbs so high anyway - to "encourage" people to replace their old fixtures with newer bulb styles - that I'll probably go this route.
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I would normally balk at replacing the entire fixture, but in CA, they're pricing the fluorescent bulbs so high anyway - to "encourage" people to replace their old fixtures with newer bulb styles - that I'll probably go this route.
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I would normally balk at replacing the entire fixture, but in CA, they're pricing the fluorescent bulbs so high anyway - to "encourage" people to replace their old fixtures with newer bulb styles - that I'll probably go this route.
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Here's
my most recent column
from Vintage Motorsport magazine. It deals with garage lighting.
It's time to start making the switch to LED lights. The best part is that you can tell your wife you're going to be saving money by cutting back on the electric bill.
Let us know how that goes for you.
Richard Newton
I've been looking at the Big *** Light for my garage. I have LED bulbs now, but my ceiling is 19' high in part of my garage and I'd like more light.
http://www.bigasslight.com
I'm going to do that in the garage, well, I mean our horse shed that's barely big enough for a car or a horse for that matter garage. LED's just make so much more cents, and the less money I can give to the power company the better.
Entire assembly. This is really great for cold climates as LED's light up to full brightness right away, even in 0 degree temps. Plus no buzzing on any ballasts and such.
I was initially concerned on the light dissipation since LED's in general are more directional. I knew these LED's would be slightly less bright than my traditional T8 tubes as well based on the stated lumens. But glad to report that light dissipation is pretty good and brightness hardly is noticeable against my traditional flourescents. I would say maybe a 20% decrease in light spread of these LED's.
Energy savings is approx. half of traditional flourescents so not as dramatic as say 9w LED bulb equaling a 60w incandescent bulb.
I would normally balk at replacing the entire fixture, but in CA, they're pricing the fluorescent bulbs so high anyway - to "encourage" people to replace their old fixtures with newer bulb styles - that I'll probably go this route.
Any known issues with welders and LED fixtures? I have cooked a couple of devices (a pool timer, for example) by running a welder off the same circuit...
I got these four LED:
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Plus six of those costco ones to mount on the side walls
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They cover my garage quite well!!
flourescents are used in body shops because the light wraps around the surface of a car, and allows you to see without glare. you can see the imperfections in paint and body surfaces. I wonder if leds will do thay ( I doubt it ) but Id like to see if some variations will ever be useful in body shops
PS I cant function w/out my 8' flourescents
A reader on another forum posted this chart. It's interesting
I was also told that in hospital operating room they use 8000K lights. I need to verify that though.
Richard Newton
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I use T5 high bay lights in all work areas. I have a separate circuit for 6 400 watt metal halide lights if I need more light.
I bought 60 of them off craigslist that were like new, and they sip energy running on 220V. I still have 20 of them left if anyone is interested :-)
I came across these at Costco today: LED "tubes" for 4' fixtures. Haven't tried them. Might do an A/B comparison with what I have right now.
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IMO, you're better off with the whole fixture that can be had for the same price. Why put LED bulbs in older, clunkier/bigger flourescent assemblies that still have ballasts in them? Doesn't make sense to me.
I would tend to agree, though given how painful it was to get my fixtures up (fun with conduit and cheap razor sharp metal edges), the ease of plug and play is attractive.
There are numerous threads on Garage Journal about LED fixtures and retrofits. A point that comes up about the cheap LED fixtures are questions about longevity. If you just replace the tubes, you can always go back to fluorescent or upgrade to a better LED tube.
Dunno, all my fixtures are tapped into switched outlets right by the lights themselves. It doesn't get any easier for me to swap the entire fixture.
If you keep the existing fixtures, you'll most likely have a better chance of suffering a ballast failure before the new led lights fail themselves or have to endure buzzing ballasts. Also some modern electronics don't play nice with outlets/wiring circuit that are sharing the ballasts as well.
I also have T5 HO in my garage (54W) alone with 8' HO T12 fixtures switched separately. It's hard for me to tell the difference between the 48" T5 and the 8'- 115W T12 HO. I wanted to mention about 400 W Metal Halide failure. Sometimes the arctube will rupture sending the glass fragments outwards and break the outer glass. It's a rare occasion but I've seen it more than a few times. You can purchase the lamps with the protected shield. They have a shroud around the aretube to contain the fragments in case of an explosion. Attached is a pic of one lamp I saved that had nonpassive failure.
Also you pull the same power from the metal halide fixtures weather they are wired 110 or 220v. The difference is that on 110v, you my be pulling 5 amps and on 220v you may be pulling 2.5 amps but you are pulling them on both legs. Just wanted to put this in because I admire your work and hope to meet you someday.
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