You will get opinions on the different brand or manufacturer of lights from people, and some will say XYZ brand is best and ABC brand *****, and some will say ABC brand is best and XYZ brand *****.
The 4 foot LED shop lights have not been around all that long yet, so trying to be objective about their longevity is going to be merely someone's guess at this point, and not fact.
If I was you, I would do your homework and compare some of the 4 foot shop lights to each other and see which ones put out the most lumens, which ones use the most watts to put out those lumens, and how much each brand of light costs to put out those lumens.
Example, I was looking at some 60 watt equivalent A19 base screw in, soft white LED bulbs at Home Depot and Lowes to replace some bulbs in my garage door openers. One manufacturer said their 8.5 watt A19 screw in LED bulb put out 800 lumens, while another manufacturer says there 10 watt A19 screw in LED bulb puts out 700 lumens.
So the lumens per watt are different, as is the cost for each bulb. But they were both supposed to be equivalent to an old 60 watt incandescent bulb.
Just do your research, and buy the shop lights from a place that you can return them to if they are not what you are looking for in light output, and if any of them burn out after a short period of time, like some of the cheaper brand LED bulbs do.
For reference, my garage lighting is set up exactly the same as yours, with 4 foot shop lights on each side of each garage door track. I also have an extra 4 foot shop light at the back of each garage bay so that when the hood of the cars is up, there is a light right there above the engine compartment.
Jim
