How To Replace Fluorescent Lights With Led

If you are going to replace fluorescent light with led lighting you must take into consideration the color temperature.

How to replace fluorescent lights with led.

It was easy and. The bulbs we used can be found on amazon here. Getting rid of the ballast and the t8 fluorescent bulbs that burn out and retrofitting and converting to led was the best thing i have done. A 4 lamp 4 foot fixture can go from what you have now about 7200 lumens in led terms or the equivalent of replacing a fixture that has four brand new fluorescent tubes with four 1800 lumen led tubes to nearly twice as bright about 12 000 lumens with four 3000 lumen led tubes depending on the lumen rating of your led replacement tube.

By contrast a high kelvin figure like 4000k means the color is cool and white in appearance. Led light tubes are popular replacements for the long fluorescent light tubes as they can last much longer and don t contain toxic mercury. New led bulbs are also safer since broken fluorescent bulbs can expose you to mercury. Most of these tubes are designed to simply fit into the fluorescent light fixtures you already have.

There is a wide variety of methods for converting to led tubes. However led fixtures to replace four bulb 8 foot long fluorescent fixtures common in farm buildings can set you back 100 or more per unit. You can just remove the fluorescents install the leds and you re done. Quality led bulbs last 10 to 15 times longer than those old fluorescent styles on average.

Color temperature measurement is in kelvin k and most colors range from 2500 to 6500k a lower kelvin figure means the color is warm and tends to be closer to orange.