LED 6ft tubes

[W.olly]

Well i should of got them when i could. 6 month ago as i found twelve 6 foot LED tubes for £120. now i am lucky to get flourrescent for that price. I need ten, does anybody know of a suplier near Manchester to can get some as delivery is not looking good from where i am lookng.

cheers

Faffer

 

[RWD3M]

Do you have a TLC Direct up there?

I have 20 odd LED battens from them (Knightsbridge brand) in my shed and am very happy with them.

Edit: Oops, sorry, South of England only.

 

[Nomad]

Hi, maybe search the forum before you order - I'm sure somebody said LED's were no more efficient than traditional tubes.
@fizzy ?

 

[RWD3M]

Hi, maybe search the forum before you order - I'm sure somebody said LED's were no more efficient than traditional tubes.
@fizzy ?

Yeah, I seem to remember that. I think it was LED tube type replacements for Flouro's though. Battens I believe are about half the power for the same light (put crudely )

 

[W.olly]

Do you have a TLC Direct up there?

I have 20 odd LED battens from them (Knightsbridge brand) in my shed and am very happy with them.

Edit: Oops, sorry, South of England only.

yes, i tried them but will not deliver.

Hi, maybe search the forum before you order - I'm sure somebody said LED's were no more efficient than traditional tubes.
@fizzy ?

i am looking at Floues now, more than half the price.

 

[W.olly]

I mite get enough light for this 24x12 garage with floures, i have five twin tube 6 footers in there.

 

[RWD3M]

Screwfix/Toolstation

 

[W.olly]

Forgot to mention.
The lights are different. So am I correct in that some are OK with flelous and some.not??

 

[fizzy]

Yeah, I seem to remember that. I think it was LED tube type replacements for Flouro's though. Battens I believe are about half the power for the same light (put crudely )

It was both actually. I have 6 of the quality 60w 6ft battens. No different to a naked flouro tube of the same wattage. Much easier to install and daisy chain though.

 

[Domdom]

I went cheap Far Eastern for my workshop. No issues in over 2 years. They do the true daylight ones as well.
One example.

Pardon our interruption...

 

[Onoff]

Greenwashing BS. I reckon we go through LED lamps here far quicker than CFLs.

Bring back good old incandescent ones!

 

[W.olly]

I went cheap Far Eastern for my workshop. No issues in over 2 years. They do the true daylight ones as well.
One example.

Pardon our interruption...

not much cop when i have the units fitted though. Also i have used the cheap chinese rubbish before and didnt fnd them much use myself

Greenwashing BS. I reckon we go through LED lamps here far quicker than CFLs.

Bring back good old incandescent ones!

I have found a set of 10 LED for £165 and Floures for £75......Mmmm its only for the garage.

 

[sparkysy]

I am not a fan of LED fittings, they do seem to fail very quickly indeed!
I fitted some high bay LED UFO fittings in a warehouse just over a year ago and had to go back last week and swap 2 of the 6 in one isle as they had packed up.
Manufacturer warranty 3years. Still had to get a machine in and about an hour of my time for the customer to swallow.

Sodium and metal halide fittings they replaced were 10 years old! I fitted them originally, maybe 4 of them had new lamps in that time but that was all!

 

[W.olly]

Forgot to mention.
The lights are different. So am I correct in that some are OK with flelous and some.not??

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so can anybody say what tubes i can and cant use in the units,. if i can mite aswell go with these

Crompton Lamps Fluorescent 6ft T8 Tube 70W Triphosphor Cool White F70W/840

Crompton Lamps Fluorescent T8 Tube 6ft in length (1775mm with pins). Superior Triphosphor quality of light and long life. 4000K cool white colour. Shop now.

www.lightbulbs-direct.com

 

[brightspark]

I am not a fan of LED fittings, they do seem to fail very quickly indeed!
I fitted some high bay LED UFO fittings in a warehouse just over a year ago and had to go back last week and swap 2 of the 6 in one isle as they had packed up.
Manufacturer warranty 3years. Still had to get a machine in and about an hour of my time for the customer to swallow.

Sodium and metal halide fittings they replaced were 10 years old! I fitted them originally, maybe 4 of them had new lamps in that time but that was all!

ive fitted stacks of metal halide and sodium fittings. they do last longer than led but led are cheaper to buy and are cheaper to run

 

[Brad93]

I've been fitting the ansell tornado double units in the workshop, the latest units keep humming whereas the two units i bought last year do not. Not sure what they've changed

 

[Blobber]

ive fitted stacks of metal halide and sodium fittings. they do last longer than led but led are cheaper to buy and are cheaper to run

Im still not sure the figures stack up yet, cheaper to run is not the only consideration, purchase cost and failure rate needs to be taken into account as sparkysy has found out

 

[Onoff]

LED = Job creation

 

[brightspark]

ive fitted hundreds of 600x600 led pannel lights in a school and they are holding up well .price of them now only about 25 quid each

 

[Blobber]

LED = Job creation

Just like the CFL craze, horrible polluting rubbish things