Buy fixtures with electronic ballasts rather than electromagnetic ones.
Replace garage fluorescent lights with led.
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Through all of this though i had one area of the house i d ignored.
By contrast a high kelvin figure like 4000k means the color is cool and white in appearance.
Check out this led shop light.
If you are going to replace fluorescent light with led lighting you must take into consideration the color temperature.
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Most of these tubes are designed to simply fit into the fluorescent light fixtures you already have.
Many fluorescent lights do not work below 50 degrees.
Led light tubes are popular replacements for the long fluorescent light tubes as they can last much longer and don t contain toxic mercury.
There is a wide variety of methods for converting to led tubes.
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Fluorescent lights are the traditional choice for garage spaces.
I hate fluorescent bulbs but the cost to replace them with led equivalent fixtures was high about 300 to do all six.
A 4 lamp 4 foot fixture can go from what you have now about 7200 lumens in led terms or the equivalent of replacing a fixture that has four brand new fluorescent tubes with four 1800 lumen led tubes to nearly twice as bright about 12 000 lumens with four 3000 lumen led tubes depending on the lumen rating of your led replacement tube.
You can just remove the fluorescents install the leds and you re done.
Color temperature measurement is in kelvin k and most colors range from 2500 to 6500k a lower kelvin figure means the color is warm and tends to be closer to orange.
Each of these led garage lights is 4 feet long and available in either warm white 3500k bright white 4000k or daylight 5000k hues.
However led fixtures to replace four bulb 8 foot long fluorescent fixtures common in farm buildings can set you back 100 or more per unit.
The simplest is to completely replace old fluorescent fixtures with brand new led fixtures.
In this video i show how i replaced a couple of burnt out fluorescent light fixtures in my shop with new high efficiency led ones.