LED shop lights

[grsthegreat]

I worked for years replacing and installing street lights 40 up on an Altec boom truck. Got kind of tired of it. Thought that LED担 would limit that kind of work. It hasnt.

On the new intersection of freeway by my house there are 18 3 year old street lights that are new led. 3 of them are now dead. 50,000 hours my butt. The 3rd one went out just recently, as i only noticed it on sunday. Wonder how long till they all go out.

When i used to replace metal halide lamps we would get more life out of them. They would dim over time, but lasted more than 3 years.

 

[5030]

I worked for years replacing and installing street lights 40 up on an Altec boom truck. Got kind of tired of it. Thought that LEDæ‹… would limit that kind of work. It hasnt.

On the new intersection of freeway by my house there are 18 3 year old street lights that are new led. 3 of them are now dead. 50,000 hours my butt. The 3rd one went out just recently, as i only noticed it on sunday. Wonder how long till they all go out.

When i used to replace metal halide lamps we would get more life out of them. They would dim over time, but lasted more than 3 years.

Was just at the hospital this am for some tests (once you survive stage 4 cancer they never leave you alone...), Anyway, they refitted to almost 100% LED lighting last year and I to am noticing many dark fixtures. Not something I pay a lot of attention to but walking down a corridor into a dim spot gets your attention.

I wonder if the upgrade and then relamping cost outweighs the energy usage. I have a feeling it don't.

 

[Industrial Toys]

People love to spend money in the belief that they will save money. I'm not always sure that actually happens.

I buy LED stuff when extremely advantageous or FREE. Beyond that, I'm not replacing anything.

Funny. Almost bought a box of brand new T8 Ballasts, from on-line auction, which you need anyway if using certain T8 LED retrofit tubes. Would have cost maybe $5.00 cdn/ box. I was worried how bad they were for RF. I did some investigating and managed to barely read the model numbers for apparntly they were one letter different from the good RFI models. Dodged a bullet! Would have been nice if they were the better model.

 

[k0ua]

In my opinion you don't want to use the LED tubes that require a ballast, and it eliminates a lot of the power savings. yes it is more convenient to just snap in a retrofit tube, but you will save a lot more money if you go in and disconnect the ballast and use direct fed LED tubes. It only takes a couple of minutes to throw the breaker, and wire around the ballast. And you will never need to replace that ballast again, and it won't be there sucking up power and making heat either.

 

[Industrial Toys]

AND it won't be another thing to fail. I have no idea of the RFI situation with the 120volt retrofit tubes. I got a bunch of GE LED tubes really cheap that require ballasts so for the moment that what I'm doing.

 

[k0ua]

AND it won't be another thing to fail. I have no idea of the RFI situation with the 120volt retrofit tubes. I got a bunch of GE LED tubes really cheap that require ballasts so for the moment that what I'm doing.

These are RFI free. I have many in the house. About 5 minutes to wire them. You need a pair of side cutters, and reuse existing wires and wire nuts. And you know how I feel about RFI

Amazon.com : hyperikon t8 4 foot led tube

 

[Industrial Toys]

A friend bought a bunch to put in some vapour tight T-8 fixtures I had gotten him some years ago. Seems his bulbs have to have live and neutral connections at one end only (two connections) and none of the tombstone connectors had that ability. He had to send them all back and get ones that wire up at each end. YET ANOTHER new thing to f#$# one up! Always these simple ten minute jobs that go straight to heck! And I'm on eth phone with him saying "waht to you mean?" "what do you mean?" The picture he sent me explained it all.

 

[ovrszd]

In my opinion you don't want to use the LED tubes that require a ballast, and it eliminates a lot of the power savings. yes it is more convenient to just snap in a retrofit tube, but you will save a lot more money if you go in and disconnect the ballast and use direct fed LED tubes. It only takes a couple of minutes to throw the breaker, and wire around the ballast. And you will never need to replace that ballast again, and it won't be there sucking up power and making heat either.

Yep...

 

[k0ua]

A friend bought a bunch to put in some vapour tight T-8 fixtures I had gotten him some years ago. Seems his bulbs have to have live and neutral connections at one end only (two connections) and none of the tombstone connectors had that ability. He had to send them all back and get ones that wire up at each end. YET ANOTHER new thing to f#$# one up! Always these simple ten minute jobs that go straight to heck! And I'm on eth phone with him saying "waht to you mean?" "what do you mean?" The picture he sent me explained it all.

The tombstones are very cheap and very simple and fast to replace.

Amazon.com : t8 tombstone non-shunted

 

[Industrial Toys]

They do come in different heights. Some do appear so cheap, you think they will break when rotating the bulb into them.