Has anyone used this type of LED light in their garage?

So I was looking through Amazon and this particular light came up. It actually has really good reviews, but has anyone here used these? 

They screw into a regular light socket, so these look like they possibly could be something useful especially in a garage in place of a standard light bulb. 

I like that. Do you have a link?

I picked up a couple of these at Northern to use a canopy lighting that work very well, but I like the adjustable design on the ones you posted. 

Just a quick search on Amazon found these:

https://www.amazon.com/Lighting-Ceiling-Security-Detector-Daylight/dp/B07GSQM5BR/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1542395236&sr=8-3&keywords=lED+bulb+deformable

Really cool design, but kinda pricey.

-Rob

In reply to rob_lewis :

Yeah, if that's the pricing I'd be more inclined to put in a couple 4ft LED fixtures. Still kinda cool though.

In reply to rob_lewis :

Yeah those are it, but those are $20 cheaper than the ones I saw. 

For $29 and 6000 lumens they seem pretty good to me.

I currently have two sockets in my garage, each with one compact fluorescent. By the time they warm up in winter and give enough light, I'm finished looking for whatever I need.

Would like to redo the lights but it's down on the list. 

May order one to try. 

Yeah 6000 lumens is a Ton of light. I think my 4’ led shop light are rated for 3000 or 4000 lumens. 

My only concern would be the color. At 6000k I have a hard time with colors. Particularly dark colors. Black, blue, brown, all look the same. My shop lights are 4000k for that reason.

Still tempting. The Northern lights I bought are only 4000 lumens. 

I usually have the garage door open so the mix of natural light should help with the colors. 

One should be here in a couple days. 

Old thread but it was never directly answered.

I put a couple of a similar style LED bulb-replacements in my garage (120W, 5-panel, claim to be 10k lumen, the exact ones are NLA).  Ceiling mounted screw-base fixtures, controlled by a motion sensor switch.

My thoughts so far:

• they are bright, fairly cheap, and easy to install.  No idea about longevity, they do get warm-ish but I've never checked after they have been turned on for a long time.
• the "deformable" wing panels are mandatory to avoid blinding yourself all of the time (even on a 9ft ceiling, partially obscured by a support beam: looks at light, "ow that's bright", looks at light again, "ow that's bright", looks at light again...).  I think anything with a diffuser has to be better.

• If I were buying more, I would try some of the same basic style but with a diffuser.  Next choice would be the double-hinged style despite being a little more expensive.

Also, I really like have a motion sensor light switch for at least enough lights to walk around in the garage (I do not have a garage door opener).  The rest of the garage lights are on a separate wall switch, ALL of them on a motion sensor would be BAD.  Be aware that older or "no neutral wire required" style motion detectors probably will not work if all the incandescent bulbs are replaced.  It was still okay with one incandescent, but zero made the LEDs not turn off completely and CFLs did a strobe effect.

Please ignore the towering pile of junk.  The tube lights are just fluorescents.  The LED panels are angled so I am not blinded walking thru the door.

We have them in our barn.

They're just "meh" but I bought the "as seen on TV" ones that were on clearance at the local hardware store.

I have a couple in the upstairs of my barn, they are OK.

I bought a couple of these style bulbs for my sister and BIL. They have a large 2 car garage with a 15ft ceiling. There are only 2 light sockets in the entire garage. Even with 100w equivalent LED bulbs, it was still like working in a cave.

These were the lights I bought. I installed them in Nov 2021 when I visited for Thanksgiving. It helped immensely. They were exceptionally bright but had some drawbacks.

The first drawback was that they leaked a ton of RF. So much so that my sister couldn't use her garage door opener from the driveway anymore. You had to be right under the opener to get it to open.

The other drawback is that they had a very short lifespan. One of the lights started strobing after about 8 months of being installed. Then the other one started a few months after. Both lights lasted about a year. You couldn't use the garage because you'd have a seizure. It was horrible. Luckily, my BIL had returned from his deployment by then and swapped back to regular LED light bulbs. The deformable lights ended up in the trash.

As long as you have enough, I would think they would be fine.  The nice thing about 4' fixtures in a garage is that it limits shadows.  Right now I have two light bulbs in my garage (with some 4 footers ready to be installed).  I popped two whopper LED bulbs in them and it's bright enough to be a landing strip, but it's useless.  If I walk over to a shelf, the workbench, or the tool box, I'm blocking the light and everything is invisible.

I would rather have a dozen wimpy light sources than one or two blazing sources.

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The answer is just to add more lights!  

I started off with a pair of these from Amazon, they lasted about a year before individual panels started to die.  Replaced them with a pair from Home Depot and they have been great for almost three years, plenty of light, very bright for a two car garage.

I was at Ace Hardware today and I saw these buy one get one free. IIRC $29.99

They're an easy change since they screw into a regular light bulb socket, but I'm not overly impressed with their light distribution - 48" strips will give you more even coverage.

I put the ones with the adjustable paddles in my garage. I then removed all the other crappy tube lights, because they were totally unnecessary. I think these are fantastic.

I did have one die already (probably about 1.5 years old now). But they really aren't much more expensive than a flood light bulb these days, so I'm not too mad.

I bought the cheaper looking white plastic ones from Amazon when I moved into my house in 2019. They were something like $25 for a 4-pack if memory serves. I figured they'd get me through a year and then I'd upgrade to better shop lighting when they inevitably failed. But here we are 4 years later and they're all going strong.

Pros: Good light output, good color temp, good longevity, cheap

Cons: Affects garage door signal. Even when the lights are off, need to be within ~30 feet of the receiver for the remote to work. When the lights are on, the remote opener does not work from outside the garage.

I thought about these, but the blinding nature and single light point was a concern and why I ultimately went with rows of 48" linear lensed LED fixtures, connected end-to-end.  Better light distribution with fewer sharp shadows.  Especially in a garage when I'm often on the floor looking up at something I'm working on.  Having these would almost be like staring into the sun above your car.  

I could see these working in attics and basements where something quick and easy may be preferred (although I still went with the linear LED fixtures in both areas of my house).