Thanks Kent, very helpful!

nice content,, gobless po

Dude thanks! I bought some.

it's really nice.

THANKS

substantial electricity savings can be realized with led lighting. my 700 sq. ft. fluorescent lit local consumed 1500 Watts in lighting.and I still needed extra lights here and there for some work areas.

@bobhaddock957

6 жыл бұрын

I have 40' x 50' metal building. 12' celing. how many do I need at what spacing ? how many can I plug together before I need a plug in outlet ?

It's very stable quality product now and I do know where it is hot selling of this products

and some of them no clue which side is to give supply . and cause short ckt

My dad has a 60 by 80 garage with 15 ft ceilings do you think that these would put enough late down

@KentDiego

6 жыл бұрын

The LED tube lights are focused down so no wasted light. Bet you can find old 8' fixtures for free on Craigs List that you could convert to LED.

Unlike the bi-pin lamp holders the single pin doesn't require two sets of wires. It only needs one loop form one side of the lamp holder to the other. Fortunately for you it didn't make any difference by connecting all the wires together. Just to make it clearer, you can have an 8' bi-pin lamp and an 8' single pin lamp. your light fixture at one time was an 8' bi-pin fixture with a different type ballast. It was retro fitted with single pin lamp holders and a proper ballast. My last comment is... it is not necessary to pre-twist conductors prior to installing wire nuts to cabiling, in fact it is frowned upon. On the bright side you've shown the difference between different lunines in LED lamps.

I was told not to pretwist wires before putting wire nut on. Let the wirenut do the twisting.

Just yank out the ballast and throw it away. ALL the wires on one end are tied together and attached to the positive wire (black) and all the wires on the other end are tied together and attached to the negative wire (white). Use wire nuts to connect your wires.

@pflagler733

5 жыл бұрын

I wish you guys would get your terminology correct. There is NO such thing as Negative and Positive in AC wiring.Those terms are for DC wiring ONLY! In AC wiring Black is traditionally HOT, and White is NEUTRAL. So unless you are running off of a Battery, and not the grid...learn the terms, and the difference, or you eventually will be a statistic!

@darrellblair5818

5 жыл бұрын

@@pflagler733 You are absolutely correct. However, you can kiss my ass.

The only disadvantage with these tubes, is that the light is much more directional than a fluorescent tube. If you have one tube in the centre of a room, the floor in the centre is brightly lit, but the wall and work surfaces at the side of the room may receive much less light than they did with the old fluorescent tubes.

@KentDiego

7 жыл бұрын

An open bulb needs frosted coating to diffuse light. Often bulbs are in a fixture where light going up and sideways is wasted. There the clear is awesome giving two to three times the intensity of a florescent bulb. The 8' bulbs all seem to be designed for industrial usage with high ceilings and shining down is better.

@RichardKingADI

7 жыл бұрын

yes. indeed. So I was quite disappointed when I tried it in my kitchen and had to return it. I wonder why they a;; seem to have the LED's pointing down only? I've yet to find one where there are also LED's at other angles. I really like the 4000k - I find the warm white just a bit too yellow.

6000k don't means lumens. 2 different specs. and the LEDs is 120 or 180 degrees .

WHAT !

Does new LED 8ft bulbs are pretty awesome. But there is one major mistake are you made on your wiring hookup. Wear your black and your whites are at the bulb sockets. You need to hook all four wires to that one single black wire. The reason for this is if you take one bulb out on one side. And the other side will not turn on. You had set it up that you cannot use either side to run a bulb by itself. So if you remove the bulb from the side that you have the original black wire to. You will find out that one side will not stay lit when the bulb is out on one other side. But in order to make it to where you could either side with a bulb by itself. You make sure all of those blacks and whites are hooked together. On the other side with the white wire going straight to the red and blue wires you did that 100% correctly.

@bobmoseley7028

5 жыл бұрын

You are right about that and it's a good thing for others to take note of.

Well .... If a 4ft tube is listed as 2000lm .. ah ... where are they? Its not a point source. SO, say, at 1ft anywhere under the bulb, do we have 2000lm? I doubt it. Divide by the 4 of the 4ft to get 500lm per sq ft? Maybe not. How do I compare amount of light between CFL bulb and LED tube? I want to start plants. I don't have a clue what I'm doing. Thanks for the wireing instructions ... I may need them. What's your best guess? How many lumens are where?

@KentDiego

7 жыл бұрын

Light follows the inverse square law where doubling the distance gives 4 times less light since 4 times the area is lit. I did a later review for the magnetic strip light where I bought a lux meter to measure the intensity at a fixed distance.. The LED strip had more than double the light of a standard florescent bulb. I love a bright light and placed many in my house and office. The real advantage of LED is CRI, Color Rendering Index. The colors are much more vivid with LED. The CFL bulbs are so drab and dingy. They make special LED grow bulbs for plants with an odd purple/red color but I am sure a standard 4000K bulb would work too..

@mudpuddle5000

7 жыл бұрын

He .... he..he...he. I live dim light. I light my home with a combination of night lights and 20watt halogen study lamps. If I REALLY need to see something I get out my REALLY intense LED flashlight. Thanks for the info. Some questions are really hard to find an answer to. I think you have the right attitude ... Just try and see .... quite literally SEE.. I do know about the purple/red LED grow lamps BUT they are very expensive for a small area and then, also, I wouldn't really SEE the plants. I was really frustrated with it all, last night, when I wrote the question. Thanks for calming me down. I'll try and find the other video. Keep up the good work. He...he ... he...he.

Why would you NOT remove the ballast in the video that is used for the fluorescent lights that u are replacing Very poor explanation

I hate these new lamps. They look too yellow and they are expensive!

Kent, I just don't get why you got rapped around the unusual wiring of your lights. Nobody's going to be faced with that exact situation and since you're doing a bulb review, I don't think anybody's looking for a wiring lesson. Staying on track and not getting distracted is key. 16 minutes is a long investment for the audience in your video, so having a plan and sticking with the plan is important as is editing and deciding wisely what will enrich your audience (based upon the topic) and what is simply chaf that can be dropped out. Spending 6 minutes on an unusual wiring problem is not what your video is about; at least not according to the title.

The light of this led tubes is terrible And the cost of this garbage you will never save on your electricity bill

@ablegreentech

6 жыл бұрын

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