Amazon LED shoplights

[Reit38]

Is anyone usong these lights from amazon? Looking to replace the lights in my 38x58 with these. Almost aeems too cheap to be good but the reviews all look great from what ive seen.

hoping someone on here has first hamd experience with them

 

[05snopro440]

It looks like they have decent reviews. I used the Koda ones bought from Costco, so not the same.

However in terms of lighting my garage is 38 wide and 32 long, and with 3 large doors I arranged my lighting into bays with a row of 3 lights on each side of each bay, for a total of 18 lights. For my square footage, it's very bright and I will only be adding a couple more above work areas just for a little added light, but I've been working in it over a year with these lights and it has been great. Much better than the 6 incandescent bulbs before that hardly lit up anything.

 

[Mark_17]

I tossed a few of them into my basement. They work great but note that the light isn't directed anywhere. The floor is lit but so is my ceiling lol

 

[cybrdyke]

"Shop Lights" or "Utility Lights" are not for lighting up your shop. It's an old term that was given to fixtures that could be used around a shop to light up a particular bench or a machine, as supplemental lighting. Normally, they have a cord that could be plugged into a wall socket, and a pull chain to turn them on/off. They were never intended for overall illumination.
Unfortunately, the name "shop light" is misleading.
CD

 

[dcg9381]

That's a lot of reviews.. I'd trust the reviews.

 

[jmdirk]

Lots of those offshore lights available in quite a few different formats.

A couple things to consider. They're likely not UL listed. At best CE, and CE may means China Export in that case. They're probably not as bright as the specs say. And they'll probably have the occasional LED burn out in short order - but that probably won't be that noticeable.

If none of that bothers you, then they're probably a pretty good deal. I bought a set of 4ft linkable ones off Amazon for my shop and they work pretty good. I still think I need more though.

 

[steel 35]

I got a set of 4 and have then in the corners not enough.
Replaced them with UFOs
use them both

 

[Reit38]

I thought I would start with 24. I have osb painted white for a 10ft high ceiling hopefully that would help keep some light down

 

[Mark_17]

I thought I would start with 24. I have osb painted white for a 10ft high ceiling hopefully that would help keep some light down

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I'd spend some time in this thread before investing in those lights.

I did my garage with the lights from this thread and are very happy with them.

 

[Etchase]

I bought a 4-pack three months ago and everything’s good. $48 total to my door. I have 8 seven year old units from Costco, and one started to flicker recently. Don’t know the failure mode to cause that. Im down to 5 25 year old fluorescent fixtures, that I throw away as soon as they have a problem. I have a lifetime supply of CRI 90 bulbs for those.

 

[purediesel]

I have 62 Sunco lights from amazon and they have been amazing so far, no complaints. Might want to look them up. Last time I bought them they were $12 a light

 

[alfredeneuman]

A couple things to consider. They're likely not UL listed.

They're ETL listed. ETL is a National Recognized (by the US) Testing Lab
UL isn't the only game in town

 

[Max]

I am not a fan if that kind of fixture. The issue is if the LED driver electronics goes out you have to replace the fixture. And unless you bought a lot if spares, the new fixture us unlikely to match the old ones. So instead I prefer the replaceable tube type. The fixture should last the life of the house and I can replace tubes as needed.

 

[jmdirk]

They're ETL listed. ETL is a National Recognized (by the US) Testing Lab
UL isn't the only game in town

Then they're one step ahead of a lot of the other off shore lights available. There's tons that only have CE

 

[cherokee]

What do you have now?

For me I made the huge mistake of doing 8' fluorescents and that was one if the biggest mistakes in my life. 8' pickup no problem, now problem, and they never put out the light I needed.

Someone was getting rid of about 25 of those "office" type 4' fixtures, I took them all. Converted some, bought conversion not needed bulbs for others, had no real idea on how they would last, so hedge my bets. Both are going good.

I would think with the world moving to LED you might get some fixtures being gotten rid of for cheap or free. The "tombstones" are easy to replace and getting the rest of the garbage out of there is easy to run just LED. I think the bulbs that you keep all the fluorescent stuff in eat more electricity, but I did not know how they would do in a non climate controlled shop, so far so good.