In my 12 x 24 1.5 car garage with a 10' ceiling (walls and ceiling white painted sheetrock), I have Barrina's run end to end down each side of the cars. Works really well. I left the old school fluorescents in place since they still work. Tons of light for my aging eyes.
In reply to buzzboy :
If you've got fluorescent fixtures already, you can get tube conversions that pop into the existing fixture. You usually have to disconnect the ballast. That's what I did with my 8' lights as well as some 2' units in my kitchen - the way the latter were mounted, there wasn't enough room for the plug on the end of the Barrina.
I like to use line lights in stores, which are also a type of LED light. In places like garages I'll use triple-proof lights like these
I just bought two more 4' units from Costco ($12/unit), bringing my total to 10 lamp assemblies for my 1/2 garage shop. These are the typical 48" hanging units with a pull cord. One nice feature is a outlet on the end opposite the power cord, making them easy to daisy-chain. Costco also sells units meant to attach to a drywall ceiling, and are very low profile.
In reply to kb58 :
I picked up a few of the Costco units a few weeks ago and I am going to go back for more. Hard to beat them for the price and they throw off nice light.
I scored a deal for 20 new Philips LED strip lights for $100. I was pretty psyched to get a name brand light and they're hard wired hard mount which I prefer over the plug-in chain supported lights. I do want to drywall the garage ceiling first so they might sit for a bit before install.
I have a set of these 'flower' leds
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09QHS7325/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
They are extremely bright, but pretty directional. I think I need to add in some fill light between the and on the sides of cars to soften shadows.
Did you ever notice that LED lights might last for 7 years, but you have to replace them in about 4 because they get too dim to see with age and at first you thinks it's just your eyes? Plus at least 10% have a factory defect straight out of the box?
In reply to VolvoHeretic :
That has not been our experience with name brand lights. We have hundreds in use in our building and they typically last a long, long time. The thread in bulbs do have a first year defect rate that's noticeable but tolerable. It's still way better than incandescent that's for sure!
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