Wondering if anyone has done a job useing T-5 lamp fixtures in offices?? I have only installed them in warehouses and in a parking garage. The lamps sure are expensive !! THANKS FOR ANY INPUT!!
Wondering if anyone has done a job useing T-5 lamp fixtures in offices?? I have only installed them in warehouses and in a parking garage. The lamps sure are expensive !! THANKS FOR ANY INPUT!!
I saw a 4 x 54 watt T-5 on display at HD from about 50 feet away. Wow! FAR brighter than anything else on the display. I thought about getting one for my garage.
Fixture (no tubes) 90 bucks.
Tubes 20 plus bucks each.
200 bucks for a utility light??
No way.
Were the ones you installed more reasonable in price? I expected them to be pricey but, really now....
Wondering if anyone has done a job useing T-5 lamp fixtures in offices?? I have only installed them in warehouses and in a parking garage. The lamps sure are expensive !! THANKS FOR ANY INPUT!!
One thing folks take for granted is even distribution. I go into places that seem dim all the time because the owner decides he needs super bright light over this desk or that work bench. But even light trumps bright light every single day of the week. If you get 100 footcandles over your work area but 50 everywhere else you'll find that you think the whole place is dark. But if you even everything out to forty footcandles (or whatever), you'll swear it's bright.
Don't buy bright fixtures because they're bright, try to illuminate your space evenly.
That depends. If OSHA requires or the nature of the tasks make it desirable for the work area to have higher light level than the entire section of the building, it would be foolish to light up the entire place to the same level as the work bench.
If you do a retrofit and turn the existing compliant system into out of OSHA compliance, that project is a failure.
But if it's a resi or garage shop LED, any BS flies.
One F54T5 lamp on 1.0 ballast is about the same output as a pair of F32T8 on 0.87 ballast. I'm not sure why the T5 is 1.0 and T8 is 0.87 but those are the most common ballast factors in commercial applications. There's the F28T5 as well which is almost the same as F32T8 in output.
I wouldn't be surprised if T5s eventually take over T8s if commodity prices continue to go up. There is 5/8 as much phosphor blend used in a T5 compared to the same length T8.
As you guys all know, there's a dramatic size difference between a 30 pack of T12 vs 30 pack of T8. The higher density of lamps also allow for lower freight classification thus an opportunity for reduced freight cost both inbound lamps and outbound disposal lamps.