Garage lighting suggestions

chacho44

chacho44

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Looking into new lighting for my 2 1/2 car garage. Currently have 6 4foot florescent lights but looking into some new brighter led bulbs or maybe replacing the whole fixtures. Any suggestions? I swear there was a post a while back about led bulbs. Garage pics, lighting links, or
tips on what to buy. Thanks MM
 
I switched my florescent lights over to LED bulbs, it made a big difference. Bought them at Lowe's, I got the ones that worked with or without ballasts and cut my ballasts out.
 
Before the LED lights were affordable I bought 6 high output florescent fixtures (8' dual bulb commercial grade). Its more than l needed but it's bright to say the least :doh:
 
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Stupid question. 6 years ago when I bought my house I upgraded all the lights in my garage to (at that time) to the super bright T5's. It is still crazy bright in my garage, but can I just pop the energy sucking T5 bulbs out and pop on new LED bulbs in the current T5 fixtures or do I have to replace the whole fixture? Thanks
 
Krazybones said:
Stupid question. 6 years ago when I bought my house I upgraded all the lights in my garage to (at that time) to the super bright T5's. It is still crazy bright in my garage, but can I just pop the energy sucking T5 bulbs out and pop on new LED bulbs in the current T5 fixtures or do I have to replace the whole fixture? Thanks
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Usually you can just swap them out and bypass the ballast inside the fixture, some bulbs don’t even require removing the ballast.
 
I ordered T5 led NON ballasted bulbs from ebay a couple years ago since half my ballasts were bad and they've been great.
 
Good question, thanks for posting.
There was a Garage LED light post probably 6 years ago. Someone was buying shit tons of them from ding dong and selling them here. I got a few, but it seems like you need 3 LED's to get the same amount of light from them compared to the 8' fluorescent lights. I put them in my basement work room, I needed to use all of them to get the same coverage. They work good though, and pop on as soon as you throw the switch, which is a benefit...I'm sure things have changed since these that I have any many others here probably also still have compared to todays fixtures.
 
sofa king said:
Good question, thanks for posting.
There was a Garage LED light post probably 6 years ago. Someone was buying shit tons of them from ding dong and selling them here. I got a few, but it seems like you need 3 LED's to get the same amount of light from them compared to the 8' fluorescent lights. I put them in my basement work room, I needed to use all of them to get the same coverage. They work good though, and pop on as soon as you throw the switch, which is a benefit...I'm sure things have changed since these that I have any many others here probably also still have compared to todays fixtures.
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Moneypit Ken
I have a shit load of them.
My garage is bright as F and I didn’t use that many.
 
mikesfastss said:
I’m gonna try these soon, got the link from the old thread. https://www.ebay.com/itm/25-Pack-4F...te-Fluorescent-Tube-Light-6000K-/331964637942
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Yup, I ordered 100 of these after they worked great in my barn (original ones from Moneypit - Ken). I pimped out the wife's horse barn with them and an adding more rows in my barn, plan to upgrade our garage on the house and basement, store room, etc. Only downside with the LED bulbs is they seem to interfere with radio reception. But light right up in the cold weather. Not had any issues.
 
I have 8 of the Costco LED shop lights in my garage and they work fine. I still have some HO florescent fixtures above the workbench, and while they work fine, buzz when it's cold. I'll eventually swap the tubes out for LED.
 
Hugger Z said:
Yup, I ordered 100 of these after they worked great in my barn (original ones from Moneypit - Ken). I pimped out the wife's horse barn with them and an adding more rows in my barn, plan to upgrade our garage on the house and basement, store room, etc. Only downside with the LED bulbs is they seem to interfere with radio reception. But light right up in the cold weather. Not had any issues.
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Without L.E.Ds my FM reception was not that great. Now having them, the reception is worse.
For convenience purposes; I'd opt for the kind that can be used with or without the ballasts wired in. Had a few ancient fixtures that were being dissected for the retrofitting & some of the fixtures crumbled at the ends, rendering those fixtures junk.
 
I've had the 4' LED shop lights from Menards in my garage for a while now. Switched from 8' HO florescent. Only downside is that they're not 8'. But bright as hell. I had one crap out, but no problems other than that.
 
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