Replacing fluorescents with LEDs

carguy123 wrote: Red you must have some wiring or supply issues because the LEDs are far superior to either of the old technologies in almost every way except for heat output when you need a old style bulb to use as a heater to keep some small animal warm in the winter.

Well, it's hard to blame it on wiring or supply issues when any number of computers, televisions, appliances, and edison bulbs all give normal life expectancy. I'm not seeking out high-end lighting, but neither am I shopping at the dollar store. The last bunch of LED's I bought were FEIT Electric brand from Costco. There may be good LED bulbs out there, but I've yet to find them, and it's not been for a lack of trying.

The only problem I have seen with the screw in LEDs is mine put out a little too much red, it's barely noticeable unless you do the poor man's spectrometer with a CD. Those are Meijer house brand bulbs made by Earthronics.

BrokenYugo wrote: The only problem I have seen with the screw in LEDs is mine put out a little too much red, it's barely noticeable unless you do the poor man's spectrometer with a CD. Those are Meijer house brand bulbs made by Earthronics.

Could be the colour temperature of the bulbs you're using.

1988RedT2 wrote:

carguy123 wrote: Red you must have some wiring or supply issues because the LEDs are far superior to either of the old technologies in almost every way except for heat output when you need a old style bulb to use as a heater to keep some small animal warm in the winter.

Well, it's hard to blame it on wiring or supply issues when any number of computers, televisions, appliances, and edison bulbs all give normal life expectancy. I'm not seeking out high-end lighting, but neither am I shopping at the dollar store. The last bunch of LED's I bought were FEIT Electric brand from Costco. There may be good LED bulbs out there, but I've yet to find them, and it's not been for a lack of trying.

Those are the exact ones I have in both my garage and barn, and they've been perfect for me. Maybe your store had a bad batch when you bought them?

I just had an 8' T12 fixture go bad. I've been thinking about replacing my fluorescent fixtures with LED ones for a while. I bought two 4' LED fixtures from Home Depot for around $35 each. They are linkable up to 4 fixtures. They come with both a cord that's about 4' long to link them, and a plug to hook them directly to each other. I hooked the two together to make a 8' fixture. Better/more light output. I will be replacing all the lights soon.

Bought a box of 50 4' LEDs on eBay- they ran like $7 each. Cheaper than t8s, basically. They come with their own fixtures, to be heardwired in, or do like I did and just attached an old power cord to them so they can be plugged in.

So far I've installed about 20 of them, and they work great. Whenever a fluorescent dies in one of my shops, basement, etc. it gets replaced with one of these. I have a garage I rent out and gave a few to the tenant to put up, and he loves 'em, too.