What to do v. Led garage lighting

[willsmysticcobra]

Hey all

Looking to upgrade my electric ballast T12 fixtures from old school F40 glass tube bulbs to an LED set up.

What are you all running ? I should have done more research, but I picked up a ten pack of these ...

But to my dismay they were only a tick brighter than my glass tube and were a cold 4k color blue ( think laboratory )

I noticed there are higher lumen lamps that require some ballast modification / use of " non shunted tombstone " connectors etc....

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[Mook]

[MENTION=11102]J-LO[/MENTION]

 

[Pewter-Camaro]

Interested in this tread.. I have large 1 car garage with an Ancient 8' old skool fluorescent fixture with bulbs that are basically done along with 3 4' newer fluorescent ones. At this point I'd like to replace the single 8' with something LED but it has to be Warm color light.

 

[Eagle]

[MENTION=11102]J-LO[/MENTION] hooked me up with to fixtures that light my garage awesome!

 

[EmersonHart13]

Costco has great deals on LED fixtures

 

[willsmysticcobra]

Looking forward to suggestions but I was looking for a higher watt LED bulb like something like these on amazon. I realize I would have to directly wire them and bypass a ballast.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Costco has great deals on LED fixtures

I paid I think $32 a piece and run 6 in my 2 car. I think it’s plenty bright

 

[willsmysticcobra]

That's not bad including the actual fixture

 

[EmersonHart13]

They also sell just the led bulbs but the fixture with bulb is a better deal

 

[GTvert90]

Looking forward to suggestions but I was looking for a higher watt LED bulb like something like these on amazon. I realize I would have to directly wire them and bypass a ballast.

I thought the ballast needed to be changed too. Till they relamped at work and didn't change the ballasts. The electrician said there was no need ?*

 

[2QuikTA]

I bought some led fixtures at Home Depot for $40. We’ll see how they do. You can link up to like 9 together. I think they’re 6000 or 6500

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

They also sell just the led bulbs but the fixture with bulb is a better deal

https://m.costco.com/Feit-Electric-...ith-Pull-Chain,-2-pack.product.100284402.html

 

[Rent Free]

hell yes! id rather work in my garage with sunglasses than in a dark one!!

 

[Smokinhot]

I've been trying to work on this myself. I've bought about 6 of the LED fixtures from Costco but haven't gotten around to hanging them. I'll have about 12 to 16 lights when all said and done [emoji23]

 

[Rent Free]

failbucket

 

[daturbosix]

my plan is to buy led replacement t8 bulbs
and direct wire my existing fixtures..

bulbs are 5 bucks each or so

 

[Smokinhot]

I wish these had been on sale before I bought the Costco ones. I had been eyeing these.

Hyperikon LED Shop Light, 4ft Utility Garage Light 38W Linkable with Pull Chain, Clear 5000K, 4 Pack https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012ENR3ZK/?tag=tcg21-20

 

[ThirdgenTa]

I plan on getting 6 of these
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithoni...igh-Bay-with-Lamps-Included-IBZT5-4/205311298

 

[FESTER665]

I plan on getting 6 of these
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithoni...igh-Bay-with-Lamps-Included-IBZT5-4/205311298

They're really bright, but we decided LED's were worth the slight bump in cost over them. We did a head to head in our warehouse before I redid all the lighting over the metal halides and 8' fluorescent bulbs we were using.

The problem is you are still worried about having spare bulbs around and T5 bulbs aren't that cheap. On top of which you're still using a lot more power than a LED light will use.

When I put the LED high bay on a kill-a-watt it was pulling 105 watts when it was running, the T5 fixture pulled around 220 watts (4-54w bulbs), so it would double the electricity cost over the LED units.

We run them at 8-10 hours a day and we've replaced the T5 bulbs twice in the past two years, while every single LED is running along with no problems.

The T5 gives off more light, but I don't think it's enough to justify the extra costs.

Plus you know the high bay units aren't for surface mounting correct? I dont know how high your garage ceilings are, but they need room around them to cool. I have them all on 3' chains here at work.

We're running these fixtures:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithoni...White-LED-High-Bay-Light-IBH-11L-MV/203812710

 

[FESTER665]

Side by side comparison.

 

[willizm]

I picked up 4 of the Costco led shop lights since they were on sale for $20/each. I also had 2 motion sense led shop lights that I got earlier on from Costco. They made a nice difference. Next I’m going to run some LED lights on the lift so I can see everything under the car.

Before

After

 

[daturbosix]

anyone know wheree to get conversion parts to take a old 8ft t12 fixure and make it a 4 bulb t8?

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

I picked up 4 of the Costco led shop lights since they were on sale for $20/each. I also had 2 motion sense led shop lights that I got earlier on from Costco. They made a nice difference. Next I’m going to run some LED lights on the lift so I can see everything under the car.

Before

After

where are you going to put them on the lift itself?

 

[Eagle]

Wish the 4k ones were also available, I'm not a big fan of 5k lighting in a home.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Its a garage Dan! duh