garage ceiling lights - any advice (how much, conversion, convert, install)

[ihatetodust]

My garage ceiling fluorescent light has died and you cannot get T12 bulbs easily. What did people do before they invented these weird looking leaf lights?

Really do not need shop lights just you know some light. I am not at all convinced I need early as many lumens as all these dumb ads would like me to believe.

2 car garage, IDK the exact measurements.

[wizrap]

I forget how much we paid but we had an electrician come out to retrofit the outlet for led lighting. Don’t regret it at all.

We also have a typical 2-car garage.

[K'ledgeBldr]

Convert the fixture and use T12 LED bulbs- get the bulbs that don’t require the ballast.
It’s an easy conversion.

[victimofGM]

Just install a traditional screw in bulb fixture. They’re cheap and you can adjust the light by the output of the bulbs you choose.

[MidValleyDad]

I believe there are 'plug & play' T12 replacements using LEDs

[Chas863]

It's not difficult to change the fixtures from fluorescent to LED if you have some very basic wiring experience. If you can turn a screwdriver and can strip the wiring and wire the black to black, white to white, and copper to copper with wire nuts, then you've got it made.

I did that in my kitchen and hobby room and will likely do it in my garage when the current fluorescent bulbs start going bad.

[tnff]

We changed ours over to LED. The hardest part of the whole deal was working atop a ladder.

[ihatetodust]

Oh! I had no idea that was a thing. Thanks guys.

[adjusterjack]

Originally Posted by ihatetodust

My garage ceiling fluorescent light has died and you cannot get T12 bulbs easily. What did people do before they invented these weird looking leaf lights?

Really do not need shop lights just you know some light. I am not at all convinced I need early as many lumens as all these dumb ads would like me to believe.

2 car garage, IDK the exact measurements.

I have a 2 car garage with a pair of two-bulb fluorescent fixtures. It's enough for just parking the cars and what little storage there is. But if I was regularly doing any kind of work in it I'd install 2 more.

[NORTY FLATZ]

Originally Posted by ihatetodust

My garage ceiling fluorescent light has died and you cannot get T12 bulbs easily. What did people do before they invented these weird looking leaf lights?

Really do not need shop lights just you know some light. I am not at all convinced I need early as many lumens as all these dumb ads would like me to believe.

2 car garage, IDK the exact measurements.

Depends on what you do in your garage.

Park cars? Just get anything that'll fit.

Build custom wood cabinetry? 48" LED (in "shop" white.)

"Lumens" are more efficient now, than ever before. You may end up with a very bright lamp that consumes 38W, instead of a dull/dingy "warm" white that uses 75W(or more.)