ahaugh
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Anyone use four bros lighting products? Thinking about buying there high bays for my shop.
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Four Bros LED high bays
- Thread starter ahaugh
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The LED revolution, along with the rapid expansion of internet purchasing, has created a gazillion of this kind of company. All they need is to place an order with a chinese manufacturer and a container will show up at their place in a couple of weeks. It will be filled with LED fixtures, lamps, etc. At that point, you just need to create a website and open a paypal account and presto.....you're an LED lighting company!!
Once the container is empty, you place another order...or (even more likely) close up shop.
Here's the danger for this kind of "company". LED products go obsolete before you get a chance to sell what's in your container. So you have to cut your price to liquidate it or else you have a whole bunch of worthless product. That's why so many of these companies go belly-up within 6 months.
The red flags on this website are that there are no manufacturer's names on any of the products, there is no documentation available that allows you to verify the performance claims, and there are no UL file numbers on their UL logos, which is shady.
I'm curious as to how you found this particular company or what draws you to their specific product, since it's no different than any of the other thousands that are out there.
My 2c .,
CD
Once the container is empty, you place another order...or (even more likely) close up shop.
Here's the danger for this kind of "company". LED products go obsolete before you get a chance to sell what's in your container. So you have to cut your price to liquidate it or else you have a whole bunch of worthless product. That's why so many of these companies go belly-up within 6 months.
The red flags on this website are that there are no manufacturer's names on any of the products, there is no documentation available that allows you to verify the performance claims, and there are no UL file numbers on their UL logos, which is shady.
I'm curious as to how you found this particular company or what draws you to their specific product, since it's no different than any of the other thousands that are out there.
My 2c .,
CD
Platonic Solid
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Apparently the Four Brothers Pizza business didn't make it, so on to lighting.
SCG4224
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I'm a huge Amazon fan since shopping is non-existent in my area. I used the Grandlumen 150W UFO LED High Bay Lights that put out 19,600 lumens. They're mounted about 14' high and provide plenty of general lighting for the area each one covers (approx 15'x20'). I bought one to try and ended up buying the rest to finish lighting the shop. With these and the LED 4' tube lights in my clean room, I'm still less than half the capacity on a 15 amp lighting circuit for a 1200 sq ft shop.
My .02 cents kind of off topic.
My .02 cents kind of off topic.
Found the company thru amazon. Did seem like I had to dig a little deeper than normal to find it. I'm not one to go on the cheap side every time however thought if anyone had tried the product how were the results. I did look on the website and yes it's looks very plain Jane to me and not a whole lot of information. I'm thinking I would hate to spend $550 on lighting and get the short end of the stick. Much rather purchase a good product one time and have it last for years to come and only spend a few more bucks.
Platonic Solid
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The fixtures are probably fine. They just don't make it easy for you to verify the published information.