Replacing Fluorescent Bar W/ LED

[wolfie138]

How much of an issue is it?
I've got a 6' fluo in the garage, nothing particularly wrong w/ it except it's very erratic starting - sometimes it's virtually instant, other days it will just flicker forever. A mate suggested replacing it w/ an LED bar, not had time to research it yet so I thought i'd throw it out here in the meantime to see if anyone has any thoughts/tips etc.

tia

 

[bremen1874]

I replaced mine with these a couple of years ago

https://www.toolstation.com/enlite-eco8-polycarbonate-led-batten/p49624

no idea if they still good value, but they were at the time.

Trivially easy to install in place of the old fluorescents.

 

[chaparral]

I just replaced a few flu bulbs & starters for LED ones last week, There no need to replace the whole light unit

The Tubes come with the LED Starter
https://www.toolstation.com/led-glass-tube/p79168

But if you replace the whole unit then you can get much brighter ones

 

[jellybeard999]

I have LED battens (as they seem to be known)... I would definitely recommend. I have one at the front and one at the back of my garage.

Even the cheapest are better than fluorescent.

https://www.screwfix.com/c/electric.../cat8010010#category=cat8010010&sort_by=price

 

[SoliD]

I got 3x4400 lumen ones from screwfix recently, I put up a couple as didn't have time to put up the third and just haven't felt the need to put up a 3rd in a double garage. Definitely do the swap.

 

[pastymuncher]

I have been looking at doing this as well because the kitchen strip light is the only non led light in the house. Currently our kitchen flourescent is a 1200mm long 36w one and to us it feels quite dull but our kitchen is pretty dark anyway. I am looking at replacing the whole thing so a led batten would be the way to go. What would I be looking at to maybe have a brighter led to replace it?

 

[Ice Tea]

Can you get a LED replacement for those tubes that are bent into a circle fitting?