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Twizseven:
More light, more light.

I changed all my 8ft fluorescents out about 6 years ago.  I had eleven in the workshop.  I replaced with 11 off 5ft LED's, each of which was 60W (5900lm), all rated IP65 for indoor or outdoor use.  A colleague supplied them at trade price (£85 each).  He said you wont need that many to replace the fluorescents, he felt I could have put 5 or 6 in.  I installed the eleven but put a number of them on individual switches, most were initially set up as pairs.  I can now just switch the ones on I need where I am working. It transformed the workshop.  Never had any issues with stroboscopic effects.

Colin

crueby:
I agree with Colin - I had rows of 4 footers out in the garage for when I have boats and such under work out there, and I put in 4 fewer LED's and it is brighter than before.  Up in my wood shop I added more 4 foot LED lights and took out some of the track lights. Love how it is instant on, no buzzing, and works on the outside ones even when its cold where the flourescent ones would barely come on in the winter.  I was able to put in some that just replaced the old bulbs but kept the original fixtures with the ballasts bypassed, others had to do the entire fixture since the old ones were the older pin spacings. Some of the LED bulbs will work with certain ballasts, some will require bypassing the ballast, some will work either way - need to check the specs when buying. Bypassing the ballast is simple, the bulbs came with the diagrams.

Charles Lamont:
My shop, a double garage roughly 6 x 6 metres, now has nine 60W LED strips. I had the sparks put in a 3 x 3 switch panel so that I could switch them individually and in practice I do that, especially with the current price of juice. After 3 years, I still have to think about the switch-light mapping.

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