DIVA LED Tube lights from Bee Lighting

[the duck]

Hello,
I'm still waffling between good old fluorescent tubes or LED tubes in my garage that is under construction. The building is 30x40' with 9' ceilings. What I recently stumbled onto is a company in California called Bee Lighting. They recommend a retrofitted, two-tube fixture that now takes LED tubes - fixture costs $15.

The tubes they recommend to go with it are $9 each, so the two tubes cost more than the fixture. Both the fixture and the tubes have the name DIVA - I've included links to the the spec sheets here:

Fixture:
http://www.beeslighting.com/v/vspfiles/assets/files/led-st48232-specsheet.pdf

Tubes:
http://www.beeslighting.com/v/vspfiles/assets/files/Diva Lite/divalite-t8r-specsheet.pdf

If you've got a minute, and know more about LED's vs. fluorescent lights than I do (nearly everyone), please have a look and let me know what you think.
Thanks for your time,
Matt

 

[weaselfire]

Lots of places now sell LED tubes to retrofit older fluorescent lights. You need to bypass the ballast and starter and swap the end caps the tubes go into, but it's pretty simple.

Or you can buy LED shop lights, plug and go, for about the same price. Better light and lower energy costs in a longer lasting bulb.

Jeff

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[matemike]

Hello,
I'm still waffling between good old fluorescent tubes or LED tubes in my garage that is under construction. The building is 30x40' with 9' ceilings. What I recently stumbled onto is a company in California called Bee Lighting. They recommend a retrofitted, two-tube fixture that now takes LED tubes - fixture costs $15.

The tubes they recommend to go with it are $9 each, so the two tubes cost more than the fixture. Both the fixture and the tubes have the name DIVA - I've included links to the the spec sheets here:

Fixture:
http://www.beeslighting.com/v/vspfiles/assets/files/led-st48232-specsheet.pdf

Tubes:
http://www.beeslighting.com/v/vspfiles/assets/files/Diva Lite/divalite-t8r-specsheet.pdf

If you've got a minute, and know more about LED's vs. fluorescent lights than I do (nearly everyone), please have a look and let me know what you think.
Thanks for your time,
Matt

They're the way to go. No ballast humming, no worry about full light in colder temps, no additional heat, and less power consumption than florescents.

I'm going to get the exact same lights and tubes as you linked once I have the time to install them all. Going with 16 fixtures (32 tubes) in 4 rows of 4 in my 30x40 with 12 ft ceilings. No it won't be 100 lumens/sq ft, but I have a few windows and glossy white walls and ceiling.

I was questioning if a 120° arc would be better for my 12' ceiling height, but have settled on the 230° arc just like you linked.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[the duck]

Thanks - good to know someone else is going this route too. My only experience is with fluorescent, so it makes me nervous to try something totally new on this scale - upwards of 15 fixtures, hard wired in to new construction. I think I'm also going to install two ceiling fans with 12" diameter lights in their centers, so that will add some light too.
Thanks again,
Matt

 

[the duck]

ps - matemike,
Are you going with the 4000k or 5000k? I'd be curious to know what your preference is and the quality of light you expect with the difference in temps.
Thanks again,
Matt

 

[matemike]

I think you'd need to see them side by side to ever really tell a difference. Both say 80+ CRI.

I have some 4000k flood lights outside the shop that are fairly white in color, but reflecting off a tan wall they have a tiny bit of amber hue to them.



I like the 4000k for outside.
I'm going with 5000k color inside to answer the question though.

 

[the duck]

Thanks for the info - great looking building too! I'm not 100% sure yet, but I think I might go with the 4000k - the 5000 sounds like it's a bit harsher from some of the descriptions I've read. What I really want is to visit two buildings using the two different temps so I could compare them, preferrably at night when I do most of my work. Outside of that, it seems too much like guesswork...
Thanks again for all the input - it's very helpful to hear other people's experiences. - Matt