LED shop lights

[KennyG]

I have three quality 8 foot florescent fixtures in a 2 car garage and at some point will get replaced. They light great and I've only replaced the bulbs 2-3 times in 25 years so they have done me good. Would 3 of those screw-in LED lights be the way to go in a all white finished garage? All I would have to do is remove the old fixtures and install 3 of those bulb fixtures where the wires come out of the round light boxes.

I would replace them with 8 foot LED fixtures. Not expensive and would be equivalent to what you have.

 

[grsthegreat]

All i did was to convert my 2 lamp 8 foot HO light fixtures with 4 of the 4 foot led lamps. I used a retrofit kit sold on ebay. . I didnt feel like removing all my fixtures, and they were in good shape. I just trashed the lamps and ballast and replaced center section with the retrofit kit. Came out nice

 

[GeneV]

First thing I did in my shop, tore out the couple fluorescent lights the previous guy had, and hooked up a strip of led's running the length of it. Love em!

 

[Oldpath05]

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The white walls help too...........

 

[GeneV]

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The white walls help too...........

Mmm hmm.

 

[Oldpath05]

Mmm hmm.

The walls look white to me, white reflects light, I'd like to have my inside shop painted white..

 

[dragoneggs]

The walls look white to me, white reflects light, I'd like to have my inside shop painted white..

mudding and white paint is on my ToDo list for my shop. It will be a monumental effort to move everything out to get at the walls and ceiling though. Probably have to set up a tent in the driveway for temp protection of my tools/equipment while I tackle it. Means a summer vs. winter project as well unless I do it one wall at a time.

 

[Oldpath05]

mudding and white paint is on my ToDo list for my shop. It will be a monumental effort to move everything out to get at the walls and ceiling though. Probably have to set up a tent in the driveway for temp protection of my tools/equipment while I tackle it. Means a summer vs. winter project as well unless I do it one wall at a time.

You wore me out just reading that, no way in this life time will I sheet rock my garage let alone mud on 14' walls, I seriously doubt I'll get enough gumption to get white paint on bare wood, maybe if I was 40 years younger with nothing else to do.

 

[dragoneggs]

You wore me out just reading that, no way in this life time will I sheet rock my garage let alone mud on 14' walls, I seriously doubt I'll get enough gumption to get white paint on bare wood, maybe if I was 40 years younger with nothing else to do.

The rock is up and partially taped. Lousy job done though so it will be a lot of sanding and still won't be a quality finish job. Might pull everything out and have some mud it and I will paint if I can find some poor guy that wants to do it.

 

[Oldpath05]

I talk to some at my work and to my surprise they dont mine doing mud, so there are some out there that like playing in that stuff, it drives me crazy and I dont have far to go.