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Commercial Electric 3' LED Shoplight
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I know Kev is gonna want to have some of these imported to replace those "in-efficient" 8-foot fluorescents .LOL.LOL.
Seen here is a 'Commercial Electric' LED shoplight. The box it says:
* 50w LED equals 64w of fluorescent light, but then goes on to say its 70lm/w efficancy (Am I missing something because I know I've seen fluorescent lamps with something higher than that??)
* Starts reliably to -4F/-20C (what happens below -4? maybe this should be put to the test??)
* Life of 50k hours or 46-years...well if that's actually true someone can have it after me??
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I'd love to see what's inside, but the dammed thing is riveted together
I will give them credit that it is a fairly nice looking fitting.
I deff wouldn't say its worth the $40 original price though.
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@AngryHorse: Same here, I prefer changeable parts! (and if this doesn't last its said 47 years
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There's that LED *MUST* be better opinion here too. When I saw "70lm/w" on the box I did have to laugh since fluorescents can way surpass that. So much for "energy efficient LED"
Will be interesting to see how this holds up once I find a place for it (putting it in my bedroom as an 'extra' plantlight would be good since it'd run every day...but probably first spring/summer day that the room got above 90F/32C it'd be done)
And I do plan to test and see if it still starts reliably below -4F/-20C when the opportunity presents itself ...
Atleast its made of metal that's not so paper-thin like some of the fluorescent fittings I've seen. It actually feels reasonably solidly built.
Though the thing supposedly has a 5-year warranty on it too (usually those warranties are pretty worthless since many of them want you to ship it somewhere...which would likely cost more than the thing did LOL)