4' LED Shop Lights In Costco?

dougrainer wrote:
I guess some on this post use the 4 foot Shop lights for light and connect to the Garage door opener light socket with a screw in adapter. One thing I found out the hard way is, REGULAR 4 foot Shop lights use to much amps if you connect more than 2 bulbs to the light socket on the Garage door opener. It can burn out the control board or the light socket from use over time. Now, I use LED 4 foot shop lights. I have 2 LED 4 foot dual light fixtures connected to my each Garage door opener. About 160 watts, less than 2 amp draw and the light is great. I am a big fan of ALL LED lights. Less current draw which does not overload circuits in the house. The LED's I have do not have those little LED squares that are visible like glue on LED light strips. Doug

Doug, may be true of some garage door openers which use "solid state" relays (IE Triac based). Some garage door openers also use real mechanical relays (mine does, I can hear the relay click on/off).

4ft T12 Fluorescent fixtures with 40W bulbs could easily exceed the solid state relay specs if you ganged two or more fixtures so I could see that being a problem.

My garage door openers stated to not exceed 75W per lamp holder.. I used to use 14W CFLs, now I am using 14W GE "brightstik" LEDs which are rated equiv to 100W incadescents.. The 14W CFLs fit under the front plastic cover, the brightstiks didn't so out went the covers..