21-09-2020, 10:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-09-2020, 10:59 PM by Stuart Giles.)
(03-03-2020, 07:26 PM)John Cornforth Wrote: I have just equipped a garage with some LED 24 watt 5 foot tubes and new fittings. The tubes come with "LED adaptor starters" which replace the conventional starter if you are retrofitting an older fluorescent fitting. The tubes themselves were just over £10 each from my local TLC branch. So nice to have instant light when you have just popped in to fetch something !
I did look at self contained LED battens, but when/if they fail a whole new fitting is needed which means disturbing the wiring. This seemed a bit of a nuisance, but maybe they last so long it's not really an issue.
As a related tip, why not use up any leftover light coloured emulsion paint to treat the ceiling above each light. This sends most of the stray light back where it's needed.
I have lots of 5' fluorescent fittings in the two garages and two workshops I have here. As each fluorescent has died or started that annoying flickering I have also been changing them out for the TLC LED tubes. I have been working my way through the lighting for several years now and it's certainly easy to see which tubes are LED and which are fluorescent; the LED tubes definitely emit more light. As John says, the other advantage of just changing the tubes is not having fiddle with the wiring and batten mountings as I would need to if I changed out the whole fitting.