Luceco LED Shop Light for Garages, Work Areas and Shops - 1 Pack - 3600 Lumen / 4000K Cool White, 4 Foot, Plug-in (Surface/Suspended Mount Compatible) Not Linkable

after my regular shop light died i replaced it with led, works well, was a bit brighter

I went for these LED shop lights because they were inexpensive but got decent reviews. I wanted them for my garage. The garage already has florescent lighting (which I’ve long since converted to LEDs, but that’s another review) but has lighting at the entrance side. The garage door opener (GDO) does have a light, but it’s yellowed and pathetically feeble. So I bought two of these LED units to add some light at that dim end of the garage.The units are very light weight and have minimal structure, as in they have almost no structure at all. There’s no frame, the LED tubes themselves provide the structure. If these are to be placed where they might take some abuse, or get hit by a basketball or something, forget it, you need more robust lighting. However, mounted to my garage ceiling, these will do just fine.For surface mounting they come with basic plastic drywall inserts and screws. Normally I wouldn’t like to hang something overhead without at least screwing into a joist, but these lights are so darn light weight that the mounting hardware is more than adequate. There is no template for drilling holes, so you’ll need to take care with measuring and drilling.For suspension mounting they also come with some cute little wire hangers that slip into the keyhole slots on the units. You’d then have to hang the other ends on hooks you provide. I surface mounted mine.The lights are quite bright, about what you’d expect from a florescent shop light, but with better color. The color is described as Cool White, and I’d say that was accurate. It’s very white, but not at all bluish. It’s not a pretty color for inside a house, but for a shop or garage it’s perfect.To power the units in my garage, I screwed a two outlet socket adapter into the light socket in the GDO. That gave me two plugs for two LED shop lights. See the pictures for how I did it. There was even enough room available in the GDO to still install an LED light bulb inside. Now when my garage door opens, there is a ton of light, right where you need it: at the butt end of the SUV for unloading groceries. I can also turn them on from the switch at the other end of the garage.I deducted one star just because everything feels so fragile, but these actually work perfectly for what I intended, so I'd give it another 1/2 star if I could.

I have ordered a few of these now.Update below: The light is great. Even though FedEx broke the package and light in half (the driver handed it to me bent in half "like oh well". To my amazement it still works (I was curious). The inner glass tube is broken, but the light still works. It has a glass tube inside of a plastic diffuser, then the LED strip is ran inside of that, very even light.Now to try to mount the bent light to the ceiling. Good thing they included the 6" steel drop wires...Update: I talked to Luceco, they replaced the light. They extra paded the replacement too. When I watch the FedEx guys they throw stuff from across my yard to the front door (as they do at a lot of places). I guess that is what happens when you get paid by the piece.These lights are amazing. I have ordered a few more. I have 3 of them in a two car garage, it's brighter than the daylight outside. I can't talk enough about these lights. I would put them in every room in the house if I could.I'm thinking about seeing if these will fit into the waterproof housings to use outside. Let my neighbors complain about the bright lights shining into their windows at night... I'll add some more. Insert Evil laugh.In all seriousness, these lights are much better than the Home Depot $40 LED fixture they sell. Get this one. It's worth the shipping wait.The colors are great, not cheap LEDs. Easy to install. Like others have said, the switch could be in a different place, but I have mine running from a switched outlet box on the ceiling. So that's not an issue.

It's bright! Plenty of light. Got mine hanging in my carport for doing stuff at night in there. Only thing I don't like about it(and i'm sure it's like this on lot of these type lights)is that the turn it on/off switch is now wayyyy up in the air. Yea, sucks. Once you hang it in the air, like I'm assuming that's what everyone who buys this does with it, the on/off switch goes up there with it. Soooo.... I assume the cord cant be 20' long, that's to far. How do you get the on/off switch down to where people can reach it without a step ladder? Hmmm. I don't know. If I had an extension cord with an ability to turn on and off whatever was plugged into it from where you plug it into the wall would be good. Yea, yea, I know, I can simply pull the ext cord out of its receptacle and accomplish this, but I'm lazy! Anyone know what to do? There something I don't know about out there?(only pertaining to this issue that I got, not 1 of the obvious millions of other haha's we can all come with) Is there such thing as an ext cord with a switch near the plug in part of it, one that can be clicked to kill power to whatever it's running, versus having to unplug it from wall? Thx.