Opinions on garage lighting.

[TomcoPDR]

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BUMP!

Anyone have any good experience with a dedicated LED fixture or is everyone still using standard florescent fixture with LED bulbs?

This seems to be the cheapest LED fixture available at Home Depot or Lowes...
https://www.lowes.ca/utility-fluores..._g2564384.html

Ever thought of these?

https://www.bigassfans.com/lights/

[Maxt]

http://unclewiener.com/product/new-4...sl40w-yrsl72w/

Style depends on your ceiling height. Fixtures with a cover over the LED's helps to diffuse the light for lower ceilings , where as the fixtures with the raw leds in strips tend to be better for higher ceilings. I find the raw lights on lower ceilings tend to have a kind of spotlight effect.

[88CRX]

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These are the best ones I've found. Same 4000 lumens and 4000k colour as the ones you posted, but cheaper.

https://www.costco.ca/Luminus%C2%AE-...100291849.html

So those can be hardwired in and on a switch (not the pull strings)?

[Tik-Tok]

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So those can be hardwired in and on a switch (not the pull strings)?

Yeap.

[schocker]

These ones look kind of neat.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/Hardware...t=3,51887&ap=1
3800 lumen 4000k
4' for $52.50
Can link up to 10 by buying the connection cables.

[Xtrema]

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BUMP!

Anyone have any good experience with a dedicated LED fixture or is everyone still using standard florescent fixture with LED bulbs?

This seems to be the cheapest LED fixture available at Home Depot or Lowes...
https://www.lowes.ca/utility-fluores..._g2564384.html

Never switched to LED since I can get 2x lumens for 1/2 the price with florescent. Just get some 4000k tubes for white light.

[J-hop]

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Never switched to LED since I can get 2x lumens for 1/2 the price with florescent. Just get some 4000k tubes for white light.

Only issue I found with fluorescent is temperature. If your garage isn’t heated sometimes they’re a pain. LED is essentially not affected by temperature.

I went the splitter route a couple years ago with 2 100W equivalents in each socket. Works ok but shadows are the issue. Working on your car with the hood up and you’ll need a secondary light source.

Bought 4 3200W led bars to replace the bulbs, hoping the 4 bars will be slightly brighter and offer better coverage

[Perfect Dark]

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http://unclewiener.com/product/new-4...sl40w-yrsl72w/

Style depends on your ceiling height. Fixtures with a cover over the LED's helps to diffuse the light for lower ceilings , where as the fixtures with the raw leds in strips tend to be better for higher ceilings. I find the raw lights on lower ceilings tend to have a kind of spotlight effect.

I'm going to grab some of these I think. Do you know if they have any access holes on the top so they can cover up an octagon box?

[Darell_n]

Home Depot has double row 4 ft strips for around $50 and double row 8 ft fixtures for around $100. I replaced my 60 watt double HO T12s with the 8 ft fixtures and the light output is at least 50% greater than the old 120w fixtures (and instant, no humming). The price is finally right for retrofitting. Also, my high-output bulbs were $9 twelve years ago.

[88CRX]

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Yeap.

Just wanted to confirm but I have a ceiling mounted light fixture that I'm pulling down and want to install these costco fixtures, that can be done with these, correct? I dont have any ceiling plugs to tie into.

[goldfish168]

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Just wanted to confirm but I have a ceiling mounted light fixture that I'm pulling down and want to install these costco fixtures, that can be done with these, correct? I dont have any ceiling plugs to tie into.

I converted my electrical light boxes by installing receptacles and covered the octagon box with a round cover like this:
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.4...000106235.html

Also bought the Costco shop light fixtures they have instore when there were engergy rebates. The lights do have pull strings but I just leave it in on position control it via wall switch. Two per car stall in the garage brightens the entire garage up very nicely.

[J-hop]

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I converted my electrical light boxes by installing receptacles and covered the octagon box with a round cover like this:
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.4...000106235.html

Also bought the Costco shop light fixtures they have instore when there were engergy rebates. The lights do have pull strings but I just leave it in on position control it via wall switch. Two per car stall in the garage brightens the entire garage up very nicely.

I did exactly this. Took about 30 mins to rewire, needed to run more ground to make sure everything was bonded correctly, pretty simple just followed a picture

I’m really happy, 4 led bars puts out significantly more light than the 4 100w equivalent LED bulbs with splitters I had before and way less shadow zones. Going to add two more bars on the front where I work the most.

[legendboy]

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http://unclewiener.com/product/new-4...sl40w-yrsl72w/

Style depends on your ceiling height. Fixtures with a cover over the LED's helps to diffuse the light for lower ceilings , where as the fixtures with the raw leds in strips tend to be better for higher ceilings. I find the raw lights on lower ceilings tend to have a kind of spotlight effect.

This what I ended up with after swapping in the Costco Luminous 18w led tubes. MUCH improved over fluorescent

[R-Audi]

An update for the thread, just ordered the lights below from Amazon. $40 each, LED, linkable and plug into a socket. Installing this weekend, but they look quite bright in testing them out.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Lex350]

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If you plan on doing any work in the garage once it's complete, run wiring for at least 2 more fixtures.

Agreed. Only two fixtures will give you a hot spots in those areas with a considerable drop off in light for the other areas. This is the time to get it done. Better to have overkill than not enough.

[chongkee_]

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An update for the thread, just ordered the lights below from Amazon. $40 each, LED, linkable and plug into a socket. Installing this weekend, but they look quite bright in testing them out.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

How big is your garage and how many did you buy?
Let me know how it turns out. Might pull the trigger on this too.
Was thinking of getting 4 of them for a garage with 14' ceilings that's 21X24.

[R-Audi]

I believe my garage is 24x22 or something like that, I only went with two in the work bench/over the hood type area, but I can see adding two more. (Can only link 4 together) I just moved into a new house and we have a long wish list, so adding more garage lighting might not go over well with the boss. ha ha

[Kijho]

The Hykolity lights are awesome, lots of people picking them up since my IG post which I'm glad to see! They're great value!

If you want help me get a 3% commission on them, feel free to use my Amazon Affiliates link: https://amzn.to/2OvrCeL



My Garage is bright as hell, almost blinding..

IMG_9931 by Spencer, on Flickr

[R-Audi]

Too bad you didnt post that earlier, I would have ordered via your link. Very impressed with the lights for $39.99. One of my boxes came damaged, but the light was perfectly fine.

One thing on the mounting, I didnt have a ton of faith in the slip-on screw mount, so I also drilled a hole in the middle of the light and screwed that directly into the ceiling.

[88CRX]

So those ones are powered by screwing into a light bulb socket?