LED Shop Light

Very bright lights for my shop. When I first received these lights I thought these can’t be what I ordered, but I’ll try anything once, so I installed them and let me tell you they are great. Light weight, very bright and easy to install. What else can you ask for? Oh yeah and they are affordable!

I use these shop lights for my indoor vegetable garden. I bought four at a time for a ridiculously low price (about $10 each). The lights are light, bright, virtually no assembly, and fit perfectly in my 4 foot shelving. These is no need to buy much more expensive grow lights. These lights work perfectly for an indoor garden. Currently I'm growing Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes, lettuce, and arugula (year round) and more lettuce, strawberries, and orchids to go outside with warmer weather. I'll soon be growing a lot of transplants - tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, sweet potato slips, etc. when it is closer to my last freeze date. I have no problems using these lights for my indoor garden and transplants and highly recommend them.

A kinda cheap minimalist design if you are used to the old sheet steel fluorescent lamps. But man, do they throw light! I'm old and retired. Ten years back all my old tube lamps in the shop were failing. Not good as the transformers in them become a fire hazard. I got boxes of the then new-fangled LED tubes. I removed the transformers, re-wired them for the new LEDs and put them back up. They worked pretty good. I was happy enough with the improvement. But now, the ten-year-old electronics that run the LEDS are failing. Many tubes getting very dim. Being an old man on a budget, I tried this product. They are just thin plastic tubes with the LEDS inside and enough of a plastic bracket at each end to hold it all together. No sheet steel or even reflectors. I was questioning the wisdom of that until I plugged one in. OK! Super bright white glow light! They came with chains and hanging hardware. All good there. The walls and ceiling in my shop are all bright flat white. Once I had these up, the lack of downwards reflectors was no big deal. The bright glow reflects off everything and you get an excellent quality of light to work in. I can't say how long they'll last. But if I get ten years out of them like the old cheap LED tubes gave me, I'll be fine with that. Very easy to mount, especially if they are replacing an existing unit. Strongly recommended.

They do what they’re supposed to do but feel cheap and fragile (I have no idea if they really are). They are also so light that any weight — from a power cord, for example — make them hang cockeyed. I had to zip-tie the power cord to the hook to limit the weight on the lamp. I bought a set of four and the instructions were on the bottom of the box; I didn’t see them until putting up the last lamp. What I discovered is that I put my hooks up too far apart and had to drill additional holes in my garage ceiling to space them out correctly. The problems I encountered could be avoided by ignoring the chains and attach them directly so the ceiling. They are, however, bright and pleasant, with four lighting up every corner of my two-car garage. I just hope they last.

These are umbelieveable. So much worth the little amount of money for four lights. Granted it is just a light tube and no housing but they really don't need it. Love love love these. So much light and easy to install.

Highlights: • Super light weight • Super easy to install (light weight + supplied hardware) • Super bright and efficient • Linkable -outlet in the end to plug in the next light First impression- how could this possibly be a box of four lights? Is it an empty box? Is it just the bulbs? They seemed super flimsy and unsubstantial. After installing them, that impression has changed. I have them installed flush to the 9' ceiling of my two car garage workshop. The ceiling is white painted stipple textured drywall. The texture makes it near impossible to find a joist with any kind of stud finder, but it doesn't matter with these, the super light-weight of these and the super simple metal clips they supply means it's a breeze to install on drywall- or anything that'll hold a screw. There are plastic anchors supplied too, but I used my preferred #8 Toggler Alligator anchors, with the supplied screws and clips (I like these anchors in drywall because you can drill the hole with the #8 screw- just drive it through the drywall, over-tighten it to "strip it out" and pull it back out- it creates the perfect size hole to tap the anchor into without having to use a drill and the right drill bit- and they hold great, won't pull out with the screw in it without taking it a chunk of drywall). I have to mention the supplied hardware again, because it's so rare any of it is worth a damn. These came with chains and hooks, and "tea cup" screw hooks for suspending them, and metal clips for flush mounting with decent flat head screws and plastic hollow wall anchors. I used the flush mount clips and they worked flawlessly. I was going to just use pan head sheet metal screws with the slots in the ends of the lights, but the clips mean the spacing is less critical, up to say an inch or so. You can just install one, clip in the light and eyeball the second, mark it and install it- without measuring ( unless of course you want it square / perpendicular / parallel or something...) I have a couple Hyper Tough Walmart shop lights which I think are rated at 3300 lumens, and two older T8 fluorescent ones. These are not only substantially brighter than both of those, but they distribute light much more evenly. The open tube with no reflector means my ceiling is the reflector, which works great. The plastic tube is slightly frosted so you don't see the individual LEDs like you do on the Walmart fixtures, so it's easier on the eyes. I don't mean pretty though- they look like old old school bare tube industrial lighting, and the daylight 5500k is, well, like daylight. But it's great for seeing what I'm working on. I've got them daisy chained as far as the cord will reach, which is about 54”. I have four in a 20x20 two car garage. It's plenty for general illumination, but for really even illumination for woodworking without dim areas and shadows, I could use another four, but the roll up door would block them when it's open. If I had any gripes about them, it would be the cord length. They'd be better with at least 6' cords, and nearly perfect with swappable cords, and accessory cord packs available in a few lengths. Not just for wider fixture spacing, but to get it to the power source without an extension cord. It worked out for me, as I have a center outlet for my garage door opener, and I have them plugged into a wireless remote switched Christmas light plug. If I had a little more length, I could have used lightbulb to outlet adapters and used the existing wall switch. The cord length limited spacing works on a workshop, bit I think longer spacing would work in a shed or storage area for general illumination. Bottom line: Great purchase. I got them on a lightning deal, but I'd easily pay full price for them any day. You need these if you need brighter, more even light in your workshop, garage, basement, shed, etc and and don't want to spend a fortune or have extension cords tacked up all over the place. These VS 4' florescent ship lights- If you've used or are using multiple florescent shop light fixtures and have tried to link several into an existing wall switch, you may have found that the wall switch or breaker couldn't handle the in-rush current of all the ballasts being switched on at the same time. These have no such ballast, and won't overload a 15A breaker or switch. These are less than 200w total load for four (says 36w in one place, 42 elsewhere here). The light quality and appearance is similar to a cool white florescent, and probably a lot brighter. There's also no glass to shatter if you bump them with something, and they won't burn out at the rate florescent tubes do- so no boxes of tubes to store and no spent bulbs to dispose of.

Very bright! easy to use and install, color is accurate to description, and it is great construction for the money. Works as described and I am happy for that!

These lights are awesome for any workshop or garage! They're super bright and the daylight color makes everything so clear. I love that they're linkable, so I can cover a big space easily. Plus, they come with a plug, making installation a breeze. Definitely a great upgrade for better visibility!