So - im in the process of putting together my first shaping bay in this janky old shed behind the house im renting. having no desire to play around with electrical wiring yada yada i looked around online and found these plug and play led lights on amazon and i will be getting them in the mail today (hopefully). they seem pretty cool. come in 4 foot tubes that can attach to eachother at the ends. a pack of 4 is 72 bucks. more than id like to spend but hey so it goes. im kinda stoked on these but my only concern is that they will be too bright and/or if the color that the led lights produce isnt as good as flourescent bulbs. blah
im new to all of this and didnt find much on led lights using the search function
The light seems slightly more “white” and maybe not quite as soft as flourescent but working just fine in my tiny shop.
edit - to clarify mine are not the LED bulbs designed to be used in flourescent fixtures with ballast, the ones I used are the corded plug in w/pull chain LED shop lights you might have seen at coscto/sams club. $29 for a 4’ set, instant on, no bulbs to change & uses a tiny amount of electricity
I had an LED set up, it worked ok although for me I found the usual florescent tubes better quality light, but the main reason for changing back to the tubes is that the power transformer box thingys for the LEDs kept burning out.
I’m using LED 4 ft strips from Home Depot run end to end . They are the first real sidelights I’ve ever had. I’m pleased with them. Very little heat produced which I like a lot. No ballast issues.
welcome benny! i think we have met a few times - i have definately seen you around surfing with your brother joey. stoked to see what you will have coming out of your shop!
i havent used the LEDs but looks like they are working for bud - and his boards are super clean!
Hi Benny, many ways to go with LED lights. As long as the ones you got are not cheap (low powered) ‘mood’ or ‘rope’ lights you should be fine. If you search for ‘led light’ (magnifier icon on top of page) there are some threads. The ones by tjrm63 are my favorite: portable and color-changing.
Hi Mako, I do not see why not. As long as the LED’s output the correct wavelength and enough intensity for activating the UV powder all should be fine. Otherwise you’ll have all kinds of light but no cure.
Grow lights attempt to duplicate Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) that covers a spectrum of 400-700 nm. Ultraviolet light lies outside of that range (10-400 nm).
My “guess” is that LED grow lights use mostly red and blue light (maybe some green) and don’t emit much UV.
