« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: LED shop lights  (Read 2301 times)

Fly320s

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 14,415
  • Formerly, Arthur, King of the Britons
LED shop lights
« on: January 15, 2015, 03:12:55 PM »
Anyone have a good suggestion for LED shop lights for my basement man cave?  I have one ceiling mounted electrical box (I assume a 15a circuit) in the center of the 13'x15' room.

I like the look and specs of this Big ass Light http://www.bigasslight.com/products/shop-led/ , but at $400 it is just not worth it.
Report to moderator   Logged
Islamic sex dolls.  Do they blow themselves up?

AJ Dual

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 16,162
  • Shoe Ballistics Inc.
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 04:34:20 PM »
Is it exposed joists?

I'd just hang whatever cheap recessed can fixtures were handy, and stick standard A19/E26-sized LED bulbs, maybe directional floods, in them.

The LED game is changing so quickly I'd be loath to invest any big bucks right now, but would still want the electrical savings.

They also sell T-8 fluorescent tube shaped compatible LED's that will fit in a regular fluorescent fixture, or those cheap chain-hanging shop fixtures.
Report to moderator   Logged
I promise not to duck.

Firethorn

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,789
  • Where'd my explosive space modulator go?
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 04:40:23 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged

KD5NRH

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 10,926
  • I'm too sexy for you people.
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 04:55:54 PM »
Quote from: Fly320s on January 15, 2015, 03:12:55 PM
Anyone have a good suggestion for LED shop lights for my basement man cave? 

A few of these:
http://www.goldengadgets.com/110v-240v-ac-6w-395nm-uv-led-wall-pack-flood-light.html
and a bunch of fluorescent paint.
Report to moderator   Logged

Brad Johnson

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 18,140
  • Witty, charming, handsome, and completely insane.
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2015, 07:58:21 PM »
As big a fan as I am of LED, for shop lights that'll only be used occasionally I'd go with cheapo fluorescents right now. For the price of a single LED fixture you can get several naked flourescent fixtures and the intermittant use won't show any appreciable difference in energy use. Get something with electronic ballasts and call it good. You can always upgrade later.

Or you could do like my neighbor and buy a bunch of the cheap clamp-on aluminum work lamps. He mounted a dollar store power strip to a 2x4, clamped six housings to it, and screwed in 60w-equivalent Cree lamps. It's slung from his shop rafters by a couple strands of scrap cable. Works amazingly well.

Brad
« Last Edit: January 16, 2015, 10:10:32 AM by Brad Johnson »
Report to moderator   Logged
It's all about the pancakes, people.
"And he thought cops wouldn't chase... a STOLEN DONUT TRUCK???? That would be like Willie Nelson ignoring a pickup full of weed."
-HankB

Unisaw

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,417
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2015, 07:59:25 PM »
I have a couple of these that I bought at Home Depot.  They put out a very high-quality light and the 50,000 hour life is attractive if even remotely accurate.

http://www.homedepot.com/b/Search/N-5yc1vZc9h6/Ntk-Extended/Ntt-led%2Bshop%2Blights?Ntx=mode+matchpartialmax&NCNI-5
Report to moderator   Logged
Well, if you have the sudden urge to lick your balls you'll know you got the veterinary version... K Frame

RoadKingLarry

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 21,841
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2015, 08:46:23 PM »
When I had my shop built in January 1999 I put in plain old fluorescent shop lights. Still going but they are a little cantankerous when it's cold.
Report to moderator   Logged
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

wmenorr67

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 12,775
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2015, 06:58:38 AM »
Report to moderator   Logged
There are five things, above all else, that make life worth living: a good relationship with God, a good woman, good health, good friends, and a good cigar.

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier.  One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

Bacon is the candy bar of meats!

Only the dead have seen the end of war!

K Frame

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 44,651
  • I Am Inimical
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2015, 07:54:01 AM »
Have to agree that it would likely be a lot more logical and cost effective to go with cheap fluorescents.

A few weeks ago I decided to finally put undercabinet lighting in my kitchen. I looked seriously at LEDs, but in the end went with GE linkable fluorescents.

The three fluorescent fixtures cost me about $90, but to have the same level of light with LEDs would have been over $200. It simply wasn't cost effective for lights that are only going to be on, at most, an hour or so a day.
Report to moderator   Logged
Carbon Monoxide, sucking the life out of idiots, 'tards, and fools since man tamed fire.

Pb

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,925
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2015, 12:54:47 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged

never_retreat

  • Head Muckety Muck
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 3,158
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2015, 10:31:22 PM »
I put a few of these in a race trailer for a friend.
http://www.amazon.com/Lithonia-Lighting-MNSL-M6-Contractor/dp/B00KXLAYMA/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421465374&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=MNSL+MV+M6
They are pretty bright. He picked them up at the supply house. I think they were around a hundred bucks there.
Report to moderator   Logged
I needed a mod to change my signature because the concept of "family friendly" eludes me.
Just noticed that a mod changed my signature. How long ago was that?
A few months-mods

Unisaw

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,417
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2015, 07:34:08 PM »
I was just at Costco and noticed that it has an LED shop light for around $40.
Report to moderator   Logged
Well, if you have the sudden urge to lick your balls you'll know you got the veterinary version... K Frame

RocketMan

  • Mad Rocket Scientist
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,685
  • Semper Fidelis
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2015, 08:41:41 PM »
Home Despot has a few four foot LED shop lights in their Commercial Electric brand for $30 to $40, depending on model.

Here's the $40 model that looks most like a fluorescent shop fixture.
« Last Edit: February 25, 2015, 08:44:46 PM by RocketMan »
Report to moderator   Logged
If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.

Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale.  Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.

My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.

Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

lee n. field

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,625
  • tinpot megalomaniac, Paulbot, hardware goon
Re: LED shop lights
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2015, 10:30:08 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 16, 2015, 06:58:38 AM
http://evergrowgreen.com/

Grow lights

Power draw low enough to not draw DEA attention?
Report to moderator   Logged
In thy presence is fulness of joy.
At thy right hand pleasures for evermore.
Pages: [1]
« previous next »