LED shop lights, Where to get for reasonable place?

What kind of fixtures are you replacing? SQ/ft and Ceiling height? With the LED fixtures that will help a lot with figuring light output over a particular sq/ft area.
 
Get something with a decent CRI (color rendering index), which is not going to be something cheap. High CRI has a huge affect on colors and harshness, and just makes everything look nicer. See cheap florescent bulbs for more info about bad CRI.
 
I've got the Sylvania T5HO flourescents that they sell at home depot and it's hard to imagine anything being any better. 4 fixtures at 16ft high very effectivetly illuminate 1400sqft.
 
I bought 2- 8' LED s, & had them installed in my Garage when the new door was installed. Garage is app. 16 x 22 x 12high. They Are Bright! Ordered them from Home depot, as they don't stock the 8'. I'd have to go back & look up the info, if needed. Price was about $80 a piece.
 
Call your local electrical supply house. Duke energy is paying a portion of the cost for new led lighting. Mayor electric supply is who we use. We've done a lot of led conversion that cost the customer almost nothing for the fixtures.
 
Duke energy is still rebating a portion of the lights, but less than what they were offering a month ago. I just bought LED fixtures for our entire shop and got 75% rebated. I think that ended mid April though.
 
Some fixture aren't rebated as much. Some aren't rebated much at all any more. Some the rebate hasn't changed. I'm about to do 600 integrated driver t8 retrofit bulbs. I think something similar will be going in the shop but I'll know more when I get some in and see what they look like.
 
Costco has 2-tube 4' fixtures with a plug end for $30-40/fixture. They have them on sale sometimes. I'm using several of these. I believe it's a 38 watt fixture, IIRC
 
Yep @DAWGTOY you're probably using the same ones I am. Do the SAMS units have a plug end as well?
 
In the old 2 car garage 14 years, I used multiple 4' T12 FL fixtures and thought they were the bomb...
About 10 years ago, was given some 4' T8 x6 fixtures that were blinding & caused the above to look dim...
About 2 years ago, I replaced the remaining T12's with 4' LEDs from Sams... made the T8's looks like candles or $1 incandescent flashlights w/ dead batteries!

The basement of the "new" place has several 4' T8 fixtures that will get yanked in favor of new LEDs once a few other projects are done
 
Caver Dave said:
In the old 2 car garage 14 years, I used multiple 4' T12 FL fixtures and thought they were the bomb...
About 10 years ago, was given some 4' T8 x6 fixtures that were blinding & caused the above to look dim...
About 2 years ago, I replaced the remaining T12's with 4' LEDs from Sams... made the T8's looks like candles or $1 incandescent flashlights w/ dead batteries!

The basement of the "new" place has several 4' T8 fixtures that will get yanked in favor of new LEDs once a few other projects are done
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Agree 100%. Replaced 5 4' T12s this evening with 5 of those 4' LED's from Sams linked above. Big difference. Will have to get used to the bright white light vs cooler glow of the T12s but do like that these have three difference brightness levels. The fluorescents also cast light all over and these LEDs have less spill. Will end up with 6 of the 4' LEDs. Great buy at $26 each.
 
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