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18th March 2015, 09:04 PM #31SENIOR MEMBER
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I just bought some of this stuff to put some 5360 led strips into. Plan was to replace the fluro lights in the garage. I am disappointed. The new samsung 5630 leds are good because they have a wide distribution of light, but putting them into those aluminium channels stops a fair bit of the light distribution.
So not recommended.
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24th March 2015, 06:58 PM #32.
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Just got my new LED - fluoro replacements.
In my previous post I said the average power draw per fluoro tube for the 10 tubes was ~65W!
If you recall it turns out some of the lamps had ballast issues and started looking into buying some new ones, but instead I decided to just put the $$$ towards LED fluoros instead.
Removed the starters and just replaced the tubes and this gave an average draw of 46W - hardly anything to crow about.
Checking the individual lights I found the light with no ballasts and no cap drew 19W!!!!
So I removed all the caps and all the ballasts and TA-DA . . . . . . average draw is now 17W.
BTW as I was removing some of the ballasts the plastic housing just crumbled in my hands suggesting they had all clearly seen better days.
Lesson here is if you wish to ensure you get the benefit of reduced power consumption remove any old ballasts.
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24th March 2015, 09:34 PM #33
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24th March 2015, 10:14 PM #34.
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Thanks Ray, Brand is same as yours
I was thinking that the caps would only be 2W per tube at best... I might try clipping them out tomorrow and see what happens to the current.
There are %3 more tubes in the shed/house to replace, plus my son wants two and that leaves a few spares.
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28th May 2015, 10:19 AM #35GOLD MEMBER
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Well I had the need to replace some tubes in my fluros...so why not I thought...fit T8 led tubes...went to wholesaler and although they were more expensive than the ones RG is using .... I must say I am sort of happy with them
Ok the distribute the lumens more downward that a std fluro but I reckon they still lack a little which got me looking for tubes with more lumens
Found these on aliexpress
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/prod...1657166618.htm
Also found a many sites in USA which have or provide the 25/26w T8 led tubes in 1200/4ft...wonder why we cant get them here?...we only seem to have 18/20w and around 2000 lumen output as compared to 2500lumens...
mmm....I reckon an extra led tube ( a tripple fluro so to speak at 2000 lumens each) is going to help my aging eyes while still being able to lower consumption. But if we could get the 25w tubes I might not need the extra tube. I could stay with doubles instead of tripples?
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31st May 2015, 11:38 AM #36GOLD MEMBER
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Finished the conversion of all fluros to led T8 tubes.
it is bloody great to be able to see again...
Although all my old fluorescent tubes were daylight type and were, or at least I believed them to be working (apart from 2 which were blackening at the ends and one could see the differnce between them and the others) they were in fact all shot. Their lumens output having dropped over time and I had never noticed.
The led tubes have hopefully fixed that for good.
The lux levels directly below the twin 6000k led tubes at chest height is around 80-100 lux more than the 3000k led tubes.
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31st May 2015, 04:12 PM #37Senior Member
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Hi,
Thinking of getting some of these to try out. Notice there are 3 types of colour temperatures available.
4000K Office White
6500K Daylight White
4000K Cool White
Not sure which ones to get, but would think the ones that provide the most light would be best? I would assume the 6500K?
Thanks
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31st May 2015, 09:01 PM #40GOLD MEMBER
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As i was initially testing so to speak i bought 3000k tubes and they appeared very yellow
the next 2 were the 6000k and they were a lot brighter but also whiteish....but not too cold....my lamps are at 2.7m from the floor
I then mixed the 3000k with a 6000k in the same fitting and it improved the colour aspect....but i must admit i do prefer the 6000k as it does add the extra lux
However if i had to do this again i would just splurge out on 1500mm twin tube fluro fittings as opposed to 1200mm and convert to accept led tubes as the 1500 give off more lumens giving more lux at any height you want to pick
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2nd June 2015, 11:03 PM #41Senior Member
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I have old style Fluorescent fittings with the magnetic ballast which I will be adding these AEG tubes to. Is there any advantage in removing the ballast, or should I should leave it as it is?
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Yes removed the caps and the ballasts - see my previous post on this.
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