changed my lights to led's

[jerry_stanek]

I just switched my 8 foot fluorescent lights and boy are they nice and bright. I went from 10 strips to 8 and I get about twice the light. I just bought the bypass bulbs and used the old fixtures but spaced them out. I got them From Green Light Depot for $ 17.99 a 8 foot tube and I have some 4 foot tubes coming for over the Shopbot that is in another room.

















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[James M]

Jerry,

What wattage and kelvin rating did you get?

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[Xray]

I switched to LED a few months ago, glad I did.
Brightest was too bright for me [daylight I think], "warm" did the trick for me, I don't want it as bright as an operating room in my garage.

Outside of the extra brightness and clarity and small savings on electricity, they seem impervious to the cold unlike the fluorescents which would struggle and flicker in freezing temps and sometimes stop working all together.

[bleeth]

As part of my work I have been making the changeover from traditional lighting (typically fluorescent or fluorescent and metal halide combo) in my companies branches all around the company.
Make sure you check out your local rebate incentives if you are a licensed business location. Sometimes the government has them and sometimes the electric power supplier. For our locations amortization comes within the first 12 months very often.

[dlcw]

Thanks Guys!! I'm going to call my utility company today to see if there is a rebate for making the switch to LED.

[Brady Watson]

So...How many shopbotters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

-B

[jerry_stanek]

I got the 36 watt 6000k as they were sold out of the 5000k

[Ajcoholic]

I got the 36 watt 6000k as they were sold out of the 5000k

I just changed all 70pcs of 48” fluorescent to 5000k led in the main part of my shop... wowee!

It was literally like night and day. I was thinking of it for a while. I bought twenty to try it and changed the rest a week later.

[Brady Watson]

The 5000k ones are nice...I'm rockin T8s with 5000k 'sunshine' bulbs in the shop right now; LEDs in the scanning lab. It's really nice having enough light not to cast a shadow when doing precision work with older eyes

Although not top quality, these are really bright for $55: 6x 4' LEDs Via Amazon They can be used individually and come with plug & play wiring....if you want to 'try on' LEDs before you pull the trigger for the whole shop. They're great for under-counter lights.

-B

[jerry_stanek]

I liked how I didn't have to use a ballast I wanted 5000k but they were sold out so I ended up with 6000k really nice to go out to the shop and turn on the lights and be able to see in the winter time no warm up required. The place I ordered them from shipped really fast also Ordered on Tuesday and installed on Thursday.