LED Garage Lights

[lostcreekranch]

Here's similar 96" LED Fixtures on Amazon

8 ft. Industrial Retail Flush Mount 4 Light T8 Fixture w/ 4X 24W LED Tubes 96W Total 6500k Equivalent to 256W Fluorescent Fixture 30% Brighter Than 18W LED Bulbs - - Amazon.com

 

[dragoneggs]

The problem I have with the COSTCO LED's from the B&M is the extra cost of the add on's. Last time I also bought 2 bags of walnuts, 2 large plastic totes, and a bag of pecans. AND I WAS BY MYSELF! If SWMBO had been along it would have cost at least $200 more, mainly in groceries.

Tell me about it... one time I went in for some contact lens cleaning fluid for my wife and came out with a trampoline.

 

[aczlan]

Is that a T8 LED vs T12 Fluorescent? or a T5 LED vs a T8 Fluorescent?
I can see there is a big difference between T8-and T12 fluorescent.
Still cannot get over the lumens per watt of LED vs T8 fluorescent. Dont think there is much to gain going from T8-high output fluorescent with mirror reflector to a LED's

I have T8 bulbs in the barn (2 bulb "Cold Weather" fixtures from Lowes). Two of them about 15' apart in a 12x24 bay (middle section of a post and beam barn) are nowhere near as bright as 3 20w 6000k LED floods mounted ~14 feet apart in a 30x40 pole barn.
These are the floods: LE® 20W Super Bright Outdoor LED Flood Lights, 200W Halogen Bulb Equivalent, Waterproof, 1500lm, Daylight White, 6000K, Security Lights, Floodlight - - Amazon.com

The T8 bulbs are GE "Cool White" 4100k bulbs (2600 lumens each):


They light the barn up like so (one fixture ~10' behind the camera, one over the RTV):


For comparison, here is the light from 2 of the 20w LED fixtures (one is ~4' in from the car wall and 6' past the right edge of the picture, the other is ~8' behind the camera):


Aaron Z

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Is that a T8 LED vs T12 Fluorescent? or a T5 LED vs a T8 Fluorescent?

I can see there is a big difference between T8-and T12 fluorescent.

Still cannot get over the lumens per watt of LED vs T8 fluorescent. Dont think there is much to gain going from T8-high output fluorescent with mirror reflector to a LED's

T12 Fluorescent, The LED tube says it is for T8 or T12 fixtures, but is the size of a T8.

 

[Deere Dude]

I'm anxious to see my 24x30' workshop when I take out my 6 double 2' 1" flourescents and put in 8 costco LED fixtures. Should be coming soon/

 

[ultrarunner]

Will you put them all on one switch or alternate?

 

[lostcreekranch]

These are the floods: LEÂ 20W Super Bright Outdoor LED Flood Lights, 200W Halogen Bulb Equivalent, Waterproof, 1500lm, Daylight White, 6000K, Security Lights, Floodlight - - Amazon.com


For comparison, here is the light from 2 of the 20w LED fixtures (one is ~4' in from the car wall and 6' past the right edge of the picture, the other is ~8' behind the camera):
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Aaron Z

Aaron, I wonder how the 20 watt LED lights would work to night light my flags on two 30' flag poles? They are supposed to be waterproof.

 

[murphy1244]

Do they have drop in 8' LED bulbs that you just rewire out the ballast?

 

[LD1]

Will you put them all on one switch or alternate?

For a small 24x30 and only 8 fixtures, ID just do 1 switck

 

[ultrarunner]

Commercial we wire just about everything with two switches to have some control of level of light.

Even the smaller offices will have 3 bulb fixtures with one switch controlling the center bulb and the other switch controlling the two outer bulbs... giving three levels of lighting from the same fixture.

My shop is 22 x 30... it has three switches when I bought it... right bay, left bay and one for the work bench... mostly I just use the one over the bench which is at the far gable end.

As a side note... there are many times I have wished the garage with 24 wide instead of 22... sometimes even 24 x 36

I use it to park and maintain two Model A Fords and two Model T Fords... so 4 cars and the bench.