- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Get the full fixtures. No more ballasts to worry about.
LED Shop Lighting
- Thread starter BCGPER
- Start date
Unimog
Eric
- Location
- Stansbury Park, UT
Full fixtures are also quite a bit lower profile.
ID Bronco
Registered User
- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID
For non costco guys, we don't have one, what are some good links to the ones you recommend?
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
How about Sams Club? I got some of mine at Sams and just saw that my local store still has plenty.... I think they're still $20/ea.
Unimog
Eric
- Location
- Stansbury Park, UT
I don't recommend this seller, but they have a really good photo of the box: https://www.amazon.com/4FT-Shop-Lig...517852470&sr=8-3&keywords=feit+led+shop+light
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Sam's Club has the same deal. That's where I bought mine.
Every time I turn the lights on in my garage it puts a smile on my face.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
THe cold weather kills those ballasts. It's the cold that makes them so slow to fully illuminate. The LEDs go to full intensity almost immediately, even when it's too damn cold to go out and work in the garage.
ID Bronco
Registered User
- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID
This is exactly where I am at! Cold = bad ballast
BCGPER
Starting Another Thread
- Location
- Sunny Arizona
I just did the bulbs, and removed the ballasts. My fixtures were near new, so I couldn’t see any reason to replace them. Plus, I’m cheap.
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One of my LED shop lights quit working...Hopefully all the others don't follow. Anyone else had one of these quit working?
I’ve had some pop capacitors. 30¢ fix on them and a little bit of time to re solder a new one.
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Good to know! I have a spare, so will toss it up and repair the broken one.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Please do a tech article on capacitor replacement. I can solder OK, but I wouldn't know a capacitor from a levelator.
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
It's the thing that shocks you when you touch it... I think.
- Location
- West Jordan
I did this too. Bought a box (25?) of ballast-bypass capable bulbs, removed the ballasts from my current fixtures, and voila. Easy, cheap, and awesome results. Even cheaper than the $19/ea. or whatever Costco lights.
They are the round barrel looking things with the two legs (pos & neg) at the bottom. Some have a cross cut into the top to allow for the pressure relief when they do pop. I've re-soldered a few on a motherboard a long time ago, it wasn't too difficult and even though I suck at soldering it ended up working.
DaveB
Long Jeep Fan
- Location
- Holladay, Utah
Capacitors come in many different forms, some like they described above, some rectangular, some round, some flat discs, some tubular. We design with them all the time.
Unimog
Eric
- Location
- Stansbury Park, UT
Yea, They just have a female outlet in the opposite end as the cord.
- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
Smith's