Thread: For those looking for LED Battens...

Look good - "lifespan = 50,000 hours" - sounds optimistic, but Woolies would not sell junk!

Originally Posted by SWR

Will need a sparky to fit them but looks like a pretty good deal to at least purchase them. I bought a set so I will let you know what they are like.

May I suggest, that rather than hard wiring the battens, you get your sparky to install electrical sockets on the ceiling and plug your battens into them. This will make it much easier to rearrange or change the lighting in the future. 12 battens; 12 double sockets should be about right.

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

May I suggest, that rather than hard wiring the battens, you get your sparky to install electrical sockets on the ceiling and plug your battens into them. This will make it much easier to rearrange or change the lighting in the future. 12 battens; 12 double sockets should be about right.

If you go down that path, consider having some hanging power points put in as well - they can save having leads across the floor from wall power points

Originally Posted by Chesand

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If you go down that path, consider having some hanging power points put in as well - they can save having leads across the floor from wall power points

Funnily Enough I have four but will only wire 2 I think.

10 and 11 below are hanging sockets. There are 3 lighting circuits - 2 inside and one for the three outside lights.

All of the lights and the power circuits will be on sockets - the lights can be changed from circuit to circuit - and I may not need 14 lights inside a 6 X 5.6m shed.

I also aquired some 21000 lumen high bay lights I would like to work into the layout but they are insanely bright...having timber trusses everywhere will make screwing the power sockets
a simple job.

The green circuits will be normal 10A GPO's and the light blue 15 A sockets. Circuit 9 will be a 3 phase outlet and circuit 8 is a weatherproof outdoor 2 sockets and a breaker outside the shed.
Hopefully this is the last time I will have to makle changes to the power and lighting.

Something to watch out for when buying these cheap lights. I bought a couple off Fleabay to try out and while they are nice and bright (and cheap), the temperature switching was VIA THE SUPPLY switching which turns out to be a nightmare when you are running several lights off each switch. The sensitivity seems to be a little dodgie so you can end up with one on cool daylight, another on warm white etc and no easy way to get them all back to the same temp . . . . Check that they are either fixed temperature, or at least have a physical switch to change the temp.
The other issue was one I connected to a motion sensor in my storeroom - the sensor switching time meant that it would start at a different colour each time . . . and it eventually killed the motion sensor. I have since replaced the sensor with one that is actually rated for LEDs and it keeps it on 'cool daylight' where I want it . . . so far!