Giles, I didnt hardwire mine, instead used the screw in adapters that have plugs on each side and the ability to put a bulb in the middle. Then i arranged the fixtures to plug 2 into each socket so I can still use the already installed light switches. I completely excluded these 4 bulbs, so at 45w/, add in another 180w. I will be goong back to lowes as they had screw in LEDs on sale to. Ill might as well save the 45 ones for inside until they burn out.
The 4pack of T8’s was $12.49 lol!
I had 9 fluorescent fixtures. Replaced with LED. It is brighter. Better light for sure. Less energy consumption. At the time Sam's Club had 2 packs for $60-65 or roughly $35/light with tax. I'm seeing more option pop up so you may find them cheaper now at Lowe's, Menards, or Home Depot places as well.nice. I need to get some LED bulbs for my shop lights. what did they run you? I've got 8 or 9 fixtures lighting my shop, half of my two bulb fixtures have one burned out. I'll be damn glad when all these fluorescent lights are dead and gone.
I just stopped at Lowe's and they had some boxes of 4pcs. 48" T8 LED in 6500K on sale. I have 8 of the 48" double bulb fluorescent sets running 5000K in the garage and just had one bulb go out the other night. These are 32/ea, the LED's are 14w/ea.
Just installed two on the lamp that had the bad bulb.......oh yeah! I decided to install the other 2 in the end lamp on that row and save the old bulbs for the other lamps. I will definitely be switching over as they go out. I hope the LED's last longer than the normal bulbs and the cold weather start-up/shutdown appears like it won't be an issue anymore.
When we moved in I had standard 100w bulbs in each of the 4 ceiling sockets and the lighting sucked = 400w total
Then installed 8 of the 48" fluorescent lights and lighting was good = 32w/2per = 64w/fixture = 512w total
Once switched over to LED, going to be a surgical room = 14w/2per = 28w/fixture = 224 total