Replacing Fluorescent Lamps With Led Lamps

Replace your fluorescent tubes with bright reliable long life led tube lights and cut your lighting bills in half.

Replacing fluorescent lamps with led lamps.

Led light tubes are popular replacements for the long fluorescent light tubes as they can last much longer and don t contain toxic mercury. Fluorescent was once the cost effective and environmentally preferred lighting solution. How to replace t8 fluorescent lamps with t8 led tubes. By contrast a high kelvin figure like 4000k means the color is cool and white in appearance.

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. 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. There is a wide variety of methods for converting to led tubes.

You can just remove the fluorescents install the leds and you re done. If you are going to replace fluorescent light with led lighting you must take into consideration the color temperature. Despite fluorescent being efficient themselves t8 leds hold a number of advantages when comparing the two. 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.