Shed lighting

grassroot1

Can anyone recommend a light fitting for a cubicle shed with calving pens at the back. I replaced half of the florescent bulbs last year and they are on the blink again:mad:

djmc

I was thinking of the led tubes to replace florescent tubes myself
Has anyone fitted them here.

west79

grassroot1 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a light fitting for a cubicle shed with calving pens at the back. I replaced half of the florescent bulbs last year and they are on the blink again:mad:

Ask an electrician about this. You need to replace the starters as well when you change fluorescents or else you are wasting your time

Markcheese

Starters are cheap as chips ( used to be anyway)
Biggest drama replacing bulbs in sheds is getting at them ....

grassroot1

west79 wrote: »

Ask an electrician about this. You need to replace the starters as well when you change fluorescents or else you are wasting your time

There are no starters in the new type. I had an electrician replace the ones in the calving boxes he used sodium lights and I hate them with a passion. Its a shed built in 2008 so all the fittings are quite new

Hugh 2

grassroot1 wrote: »

There are no starters in the new type. I had an electrician replace the ones in the calving boxes he used sodium lights and I hate them with a passion. Its a shed built in 2008 so all the fittings are quite new

west79 wrote: »

Ask an electrician about this. You need to replace the starters as well when you change fluorescents or else you are wasting your time

All my florescent lights about 15 years old and the covers are either gone , 1/2 off gone green dull inside covers- the Bord Bia audit chap pointed them out as needing fixing.

Heard a few years back that the new ones without starters are considered a failure (they don't stay going).
Asked an electrician today about the LED ones and he says that in his mind they are still 2 new and not really tested.

Anyway I am in the mind of changing the ones in milking parlour and dairy and found this post as I was also wondering what spec florescent tubes that I needed - my last ones became brittle and as said they are just disintegrating And weren't really up to the job is their an IP waterproof rating that I should be looking out for??

Miname

I put new floresant lights in a new shed. The sparks talked me into them and I couldn't be happier. There's a really white light off them and half the number I have in other sheds and they even light the yard up great too so no need for half of the yard lights on either. I'm not sure what sort they are but he's calling over Friday so if I remember I'll ask him. Definitely ten times the light than a normal flouresent light and only use the equivalent of a 5 watt bulb.

Hugh 2

Miname wrote: »

I put new floresant lights in a new shed. The sparks talked me into them and I couldn't be happier. There's a really white light off them and half the number I have in other sheds and they even light the yard up great too so no need for half of the yard lights on either. I'm not sure what sort they are but he's calling over Friday so if I remember I'll ask him. Definitely ten times the light than a normal flouresent light and only use the equivalent of a 5 watt bulb.

Thanks
I look forward to hearing more about them.

Helpmefarm

Thorn aqua force led. Great fitting 5 year warranty and excellent light of them. Around 100 euro.