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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
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50 bucks for a strip light with only 4,000 lumens is pretty steep. I can get 6,000 lumens out of a 20 dollar strip light at Home Depot.
I don't think LED is the greatest option to replace fluorescent yet. You don't get much more life, and the luminaires and bulbs are much, much more expensive.
To the OP, it really depends what you're looking for. My buddy does detailing out of his garage, so he went with a whole bunch of T5HO luminaires, but that's overkill for most other applications.
I'm about to light my garage that I use for woodworking, and I'm leaning towards installing 4' strip luminaires with 2x32W T8 bulbs, probably at 5,000K. Plenty of light, pretty cheap, and maintenance is easy and cheap.
I ran it through Cooper's lighting program, and 13 luminaires give me 50 footcandles at counter height. That's plenty. My shop is 24x30, so 720 square feet.