4' LED Shop Lights In Costco?
I have no way to check this from down here but it's worth a shot. Reasonable value?
Forum Discussion
LED retrofit bulbs are an improvement in lighting..
I don't doubt that those non relampable "shoplights" will "work", but to myself, over the yrs I have learned that it is BETTER to buy fixtures which CAN be "relamped".
Had multiple outdoor light fixtures fail over the yrs that were never intended on having the lamp replaced.. Or used "proprietary" hard to find special bulbs with separate ballast.. More than once the failure was the ballast and out into the garbage with the entire fixture.
I make it a point to never buy any more non relamplable fixtures or fixtures which have special bulbs or ballast/driver that cannot be replaced. They build those fixtures as cheap as possible to entice folks to buy entire fixture at a low price point instead of buying a fixture with a replaceable lamp.. Down the road when the non relampable bulbs start failing you will be buying entire new fixtures (which won't "match") and paying a premuim price.
Myself, when one LED bulb fails, I can simply replace ONE bulb at a lower cost than replacing entire fixture.
LEDs DO, AND CAN FAIL and those non relampable LED shoplights WILL eventually fail.
Anyway, I did want to add a few photos of my LUX meter from my garage lights..
Light meter is sitting on a 4ft tall ladder.
First one is the brightness of a 4ft with T12 fluorescent bulbs shoplight..
471 LUX is the reading directly under the fixture.
Next pix is taken under one of the 4ft shop lights which I used Hyperikon conversion bulbs..
1145 LUX directly under the fixture!
Next is just basic "bare" Edison screw in LEDs in the garage..
24 LUX (had hard time seeing this threw the camera eyepiece)
Next is all LED shop lights turned on and meter is in the same spot as the Edison bulb photo.
568 LUX average light, not bad at all!
Pix of garage with all shoplights on..
Looks garage look like "daylight" inside even late at night with all lights on..
I don't doubt that those non relampable "shoplights" will "work", but to myself, over the yrs I have learned that it is BETTER to buy fixtures which CAN be "relamped".
Had multiple outdoor light fixtures fail over the yrs that were never intended on having the lamp replaced.. Or used "proprietary" hard to find special bulbs with separate ballast.. More than once the failure was the ballast and out into the garbage with the entire fixture.
I make it a point to never buy any more non relamplable fixtures or fixtures which have special bulbs or ballast/driver that cannot be replaced. They build those fixtures as cheap as possible to entice folks to buy entire fixture at a low price point instead of buying a fixture with a replaceable lamp.. Down the road when the non relampable bulbs start failing you will be buying entire new fixtures (which won't "match") and paying a premuim price.
Myself, when one LED bulb fails, I can simply replace ONE bulb at a lower cost than replacing entire fixture.
LEDs DO, AND CAN FAIL and those non relampable LED shoplights WILL eventually fail.
Anyway, I did want to add a few photos of my LUX meter from my garage lights..
Light meter is sitting on a 4ft tall ladder.
First one is the brightness of a 4ft with T12 fluorescent bulbs shoplight..
471 LUX is the reading directly under the fixture.
Next pix is taken under one of the 4ft shop lights which I used Hyperikon conversion bulbs..
1145 LUX directly under the fixture!
Next is just basic "bare" Edison screw in LEDs in the garage..
24 LUX (had hard time seeing this threw the camera eyepiece)
Next is all LED shop lights turned on and meter is in the same spot as the Edison bulb photo.
568 LUX average light, not bad at all!
Pix of garage with all shoplights on..
Looks garage look like "daylight" inside even late at night with all lights on..
