Over the years I have actively replaced all the light bulbs (mainly halogen) with LED bulbs around our house and found that even with their lower wattage usage the light output seems to have been better or the same.
A quick look around the house to determine what is still not using LED uncovered a couple of 100W halogen bulbs in some walk in cupboards and the two 176cm (6ft) fluorescent tubes in the garage.
I've been thinking about replacing the fluorescent fittings in the garage for some time and today I started to research what would be an adequate replacement. To my surprise I quickly found that the LED equivalents, while using less wattage, produce nothing like the 6000 lumens each of my Sylvania F70W/135-T8's produce. My double garage is already a little dingy and if I'm doing any "detailing" on the car I generally have to use some portable LED lights that I purchased. I really don't want it to be any darker than it already is.
Having looked through the excellent DIYnot postings I see many people advocating that fluorescent tubes are better than LED tubes, so why switch.
Is anyone aware of a decent LED tube fitting that will produce at least 6000 lumens, won't cost the earth, will last as long as a fluorescent tube and will be cheaper to run? My suspicion is that such a thing doesn't exist!
A quick look around the house to determine what is still not using LED uncovered a couple of 100W halogen bulbs in some walk in cupboards and the two 176cm (6ft) fluorescent tubes in the garage.
I've been thinking about replacing the fluorescent fittings in the garage for some time and today I started to research what would be an adequate replacement. To my surprise I quickly found that the LED equivalents, while using less wattage, produce nothing like the 6000 lumens each of my Sylvania F70W/135-T8's produce. My double garage is already a little dingy and if I'm doing any "detailing" on the car I generally have to use some portable LED lights that I purchased. I really don't want it to be any darker than it already is.
Having looked through the excellent DIYnot postings I see many people advocating that fluorescent tubes are better than LED tubes, so why switch.
Is anyone aware of a decent LED tube fitting that will produce at least 6000 lumens, won't cost the earth, will last as long as a fluorescent tube and will be cheaper to run? My suspicion is that such a thing doesn't exist!