LED v.s. Fluorescent lights in the garage

I've heard a lot of good things about the HO T5 florescent bulbs. I was surprised at how small the T5's are when I saw them at Home Depot the other day! I am starting from scratch in an old 2 car garage: It's a pretty square space. Any specific housing I need to get for them?
 
Just installed these lights in my garage. Super bright. Pricey, though, as you would expect from LEDs.


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I`m one month from opening my new auto detailing garage I spend a lot of time to chose mashines polishes and all things that I may need thanks to autogeek this part was easy.

No it's time for lights, I don't know nothing about them. I have a cataloge from a company in my country from where i can bay some light and i really need a litle help it may take 5 minutes for someone to give me some advices what should i bay.

I need 1 floodlight type and 3 Led tupes

Here are some shoots from the cataloge for those who don't have time or don't want to download this pdf. I need infos are these good for my job and what specifications i need for my job.

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Here is a link from drobox please those who can help me download this pdf see whats there and give me some advices.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/30jx48vvoei2m83/20_Catalogue_2013_Go_Green.pdf
 
What size is your shop and how talk are your ceilings? Are you wanting exterior lights or just interior?
 
It's 50m2m. Ceilings wiĺl be new. Just interior for inspecting my pplishing work
 
This thread has some good information. Depending on what your budget is and how you want your electric bill to be, there are few options.

For me I had a couple LED bulbs that I was looking at and also was looking at some high output t5 or T8 fixtures.

One option for the LED bulb is using a 40W LED Flood light. These bulbs will produce 2500 lumens and come in either 4000k or 2800k and have two types of beam angles 36 degrees and 180 degrees.

PAR30 LED Bulb, 40W | LED Flood Light Bulbs and LED Spot Light Bulbs | LED Household Lighting | Super Bright LEDs | Super Bright LEDs

If you were looking for your most efficient led bulb look at the nanoleaf
Nanoleaf | The world's most energy efficient lightbulb!

Or you could go with the LED t8 tubes that are on the same website as the flood light. Ultimately I went with a bunch of cheaper T8 fixtures that were purchased at Menards.
 
Thanks DeviousDetail i will try to read them and understand what i need
 
Hi, of course the LED lights are the better choice. They can working much better and longer, saving much more for you!

You have three choice for this LED lighting transformation.

  1. Buy the LED garage Lamp or LED shop light directly, which as bright as the 4ft LED T8 tubes;
  2. Use the lamp holder with input power wire directly, install them on the wall with a length fit for the 4ft LED T8 tubes;
  3. Purchase some compatible LED tube lamp, and use them in the old fixtures, with this kind new tube, you have no need do the rewire job to passby ballast.
 
My choice were T5 Florescent fixtures. The cost and output put the available LED's to shame. I really don't care about power usage / costs as they aren't on 24x7.

I use four dual bulb 4ft appliances that were $35ea and all together they put out nearly 40k lumens. My garage is super bright. Add in two 100w LED's in my garage door opener and it's perfect. Now I just can't wait to get the whole garage painted to reflect even more light!
 
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