Garage LED light

[AndyPRK]

Can anymore recommend a good led strip light for a garage please.

Ideally from Screwfix

Also a kitchen under cabinet light with figure8 socket. Osram used to do a good one but stopped

Thanks

 

[flameport]

Can anymore recommend a good led strip light for a garage please.

Very little to choose from the 'brands' that are offered there.
Something with ~5000lm output would be plenty for a normal sized domestic garage.

Also a kitchen under cabinet light with figure8 socket.

The connector is irrelevant, chop it off and wire in any new light of your choice.

 

[AndyPRK]

Seen a Luceco Luxpack Essence Single 5ft LED Batten 30 - 60W 3600/7200lm 220-240V, Product code: 312VK

 

[ericmark]

Lights throughout my life have been changing, so one could buy an 8 watt fluorescent, and it would work A1, replace it with same make and model, and it would produce radio interference.

So because I have a lamp which has lasted 10 years, does not mean same make and model for you will also last 10 year, even buying a set of 5 lamps, one may fail in a week, and other 4 last 5 years and still going.

The fire house lamp in the USA it seems still working after over 100 years, and that was before we even had tungsten.

So the main things we look for, is easy maintenance, so if it does fail easy to change, and it directs the light to where we want it, is the correct colour temperature for what we want, etc.

So what is the garage used for? Is it really to garage a car, or is it a workshop? And how easy is it to fix lamps? Where I volunteer we are looking at these so when a light fails it can be changed without turning off all the other lights in the room, a hole fitting can be changed in minutes.

A light similar to this on jack chains and lighting plug and socket is so easy to change.

In rooms open to the public a lamp like this,

can have connection plug and socket hidden behind the false ceiling, but traditionally we would use something like this. But where the use is changing then lighting track allows lights to be swapped to what suits the display. This is still called strip lighting, I use a version from Lidi under my kitchen cupboards, and it is smart controlled so it can be turned on/off up/down etc, when hands are covered with flour without getting flour all over the switches.

I have found cost does not seem to go hand in hand with quality, but the type inside a tough polythene strip can clearly be cleaned easier than one with open LED chips.

 

[Murdochcat]

Avoid Luceco and pretty much everything from Screwfix is my advice

 

[ericmark]

I came to look at an Erbauer drill, Screwfix/B&Q special, and could not believe you're to watch it charging batteries. With my Lidi drills I stick the batteries on charge and walk away.
However, when I had a power supply for a strip of lights fail, it was changed without a problem, so can't really fault them.