LED Strip Lights in a Garage

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TerryMiller

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Something else to think about. Depending on whether you do anything in your garage where one wants to "match" colors or whatever, the Kelvin "temperature" number can be important. If one is working with colors, one wants their lighting to be as close to "daylight" as possible. Other Kelvin temperatures can throw off what something will really look like.

Here is a chart giving the Kelvin temperature number for various levels. Natural daylight would be around 4800.

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I don't know what specific product they used, but they replaced all of the fluorescent tubes in our office with LED strips. (They kept the fixtures, but got rid of the fluorescent tubes and ballasts.) They're too dang bright now; the main work room is L-shaped, with the lights ganged into three groups, and usually at least one of the groups is kept off (though lately there has been a minor revolt, and two of them are being left off).

I wish they'd get the fixtures "split," so we can turn off half of each fixture instead of big groups of fixtures. It's hard to stay awake after lunch with only the daylight that comes in from the windows...
 

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I don't know what specific product they used, but they replaced all of the fluorescent tubes in our office with LED strips. (They kept the fixtures, but got rid of the fluorescent tubes and ballasts.) They're too dang bright now; the main work room is L-shaped, with the lights ganged into three groups, and usually at least one of the groups is kept off (though lately there has been a minor revolt, and two of them are being left off).

I wish they'd get the fixtures "split," so we can turn off half of each fixture instead of big groups of fixtures. It's hard to stay awake after lunch with only the daylight that comes in from the windows...
Each bulb runs independently so you can remove some of the bulbs if it is to bright, in some of our offices on a 4 bulb fixture i only put in 2 bulbs. If they used the direct drive bulbs now if they added a driver for all the bulbs not sure since i havent installed any of them but will be worth asking.
 

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