Feit LED Shop Lights at Costco!

-MIKE- · 2015-03-10T02:00:44+00:00

I bought 4 of these LED 4' shop lights at Costco for 32 bucks each, regularly $40 at our local Costco. I'll be going back to buy some more (even at $40) as soon as their replacement shipment comes in. These things are great! I've always loved LED lights because of their efficiency and brightness, however, I hate the fact that they temporarily blind you if you happen to glance right at the diode, giving you that blind spot in your eyes for 5 minutes. I've also never understood why they have to make LED lights in the shape of older light technologies. Do I really need my LED light to be in the shape of an incandescent bulb? I guess the marketing department thinks we're all too afraid of new things. In this case, however, I'm glad they make these LED shop lights in the shape of florescent shop light, because they spread the light out very nicely AND they put a white coating over the tubes to diffuse the light. This means I can look directly at the light without being blinded. These things very bright with a nice, cool, neutral tone that reflects accurate colors for wood finishing. They are only 38watts per fixture! This is less than half what my previous florescent fixtures consumed, and they put out the equivalent of a 250 watt bulb. So I'm getting 1000 watts of light for the cost of 152 with absolutely no heat. My old shop lights were about $15-20 per fixture plus the $10-12 or more for the daylight tubes I put in them. I ended up replacing ballasts (or entire fixture) every couple years as well as tubes. These LEDs are already a decent color/tone, start up instantly, and are rated to last 30 years in I use them 6 hours a day, 365 days a year, and use half the energy as florescents. I have four of them up and the look great, extremely bright, and completely silent. With the white ceiling, the shop is super bright!

Mar 10, 2015 41 Replies

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Brewster 11 years ago

LEDs are still trying to catch florescents in the efficiency category (about 100 lumens per watt) so you get no real power savings. The "instant on", hot or cold, is the big winner here, just keep those tubes, both LED and florescents, clean and dust free.

-BR

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Brewster 11 years ago

They had a 'coupon' for these (nation wide) about 2 months ago. I think it was about $30 (versus the regular $38)

-BR

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