Posted by Destroked 450 on October 27, 2016 at 07:36:24 from (173.242.142.14):
In Reply to: Barn lighting posted by Dave H (MI) on October 25, 2016 at 17:30:46:
I'd go with 2 or 4 tube cold start 4 ft fluorescent light fixtures for low cost and replace them with led strip lights in the same fixtures when the others start going out. We've had some ballast issues with some of the 6 tube fixtures we're using.
No matter what lights you end up with get day light bulbs, they put out better lighting than the standard soft white bulbs.
We started out using 100 watt incandescent bulbs in our poultry barns and went thru over 10 cases of bulbs in 4 years.
We changed to 26 watt cfl's lowering the electric bill over $100 per month and have changed out less than 2 cases of bulbs in 5 years.
In the last year we've tried a few of the newer style 12 watt LED's that give off better light and are preparing to change over to the LED's, should see a small decrease in utility bill but will have better control over light dimming and have better lighting for clean out work.
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