I finally threw all my florescent strips and replaced them with the harbor freight strips years ago. I have never had a problem and the lighting is awesome.............
Lights look good ! Why build a new shop ? Pour a concrete floor in your shop add some insulation and a heat source , if it’s not big enough add on to it !
On the humidity issue you have.... I had the same issue. I poured concrete in my barn with visqueen under the concrete. It was still humid, so I bought a $200 dehumidifier and it has been a life saver. It’s amazing the amount of water it removes from my shop. That shop looks to me like it has potential if you finished the walls, and poured a floor. I put a wood furnace in mine as well as a hanging propane heater. My barn/shop was here when I bought the place, and was in in bad shape so I just fixed up what I had. It’s not perfect but I’m thankful to have a shop
Awesome light video. I have been struggling on what types of lights to put in my shop but after watching this video, I've found the one! Keep up all the great work you do!
I put led lights in my shop. They’ve been great. Cold doesn’t bother them like a fixture with a ballast, and my light bill is next to nothing. You made a good choice.
Awesome lights, no more warming up when cold, instant brightness. Use the extra lights to hang over a work bench area even if you are building a shop cause you can never have to many bench vices on a homestead. Cheers from Ottawa Canada .
Great i like the LED lights, just lighting my shop, very similar but more expensive thirty quid each, they are a bit more involved with the connections into a junction box. I like your ultra neat wiring ? Nice video interesting thank you 😊
I bought the same lights from Amazon for my garage. I installed 6 of them and the garage is so bright you need sunglasses to go out there but it is great I can work out there at night and since we live in Arizona it is not that cold this time of year. Thanks for the tip.
I use those same lights as a grow light and they have been working flawlessly for me for over a year. I thought about doing that in my garage but ended up doing a ballast bypass and used led bulbs since I already had all the fixtures wired in. Looks great and I think you will love the bright daylight color light for working.
Evan I installed the exact LED lights in my three and a half car garage. You will love them. Super easy to install. Work great. Cheap but awesome. Love your channel.
Hey Evan, thanks for sharing this one. I will be getting some of these lights. Those really lit up your shop and didn’t take long to install either. 👍👍
For our big equipment sheds we use those LED corn cob bulbs that go into any light bulb outlet, but with them there very bright and in our sheds there 20ft or more high roofs so there high enough up to not mess with your eye and blind you.
You're going to really love those LED lights, the light they give off is completely different than fluorescent. I used all LED in my house. It's better lighting for filming, and the cost to run them is miniscule. If it were me I would buy another set and hang them instead of the fluorescent. I looked at your video from the beginning, and your video at the end, and there is a huge lighting difference. Great job it looks fantastic. Jimmy
Having poor lighting makes me less likely to get something done in my shed -- who wants to work in the gloom? I went with a combination of the long LED fluorescent replacements similar to yours as well as three big High Pressure Sodium replacement types. I use the big ones in the center, and the strip ones as task lights around the perimeter. I love the 5000k (daylight) light. The dim yellow light from the old fluorescent tubes will not be missed! Have you thought about putting in a mezzanine in the back of the shed? It gives you a ton of extra storage space, and the lower ceiling under the mezzanine is a great place for a work bench -- a lot easier to light! You can also make a room like I did -- but you would need to pour a concrete floor. Just some food for thought. Our pole bard had a gravel floor when we bought it as well, and we had concrete poured to stop the dampness. It is dramatically drier out there now!!
Country View Acres that is really encouraging to us because that was the first channel we had ever found before we knew any of the others. We really appreciate you checking out our channel it means a lot.
Let there be light . Looks great . I like the daylight for the shop . Hate daylight for in the house . Had a daylight bulb in the bed room and it drove me nuts , Like the way you can stagger the lights in line with cable connectors instead of putting up the lights end to end . You wish to get a real pole barn built some day . Had to laugh at that . Wish I had an artificial pole barn like you have . LOL .
way to go.....fluorescent is good but does not want to light up when the temperature is low. everything else is costly as you go up in illumination. leds have revolutionized the lighting industry. i do not believe you will be disappointed. i think you need to add another fixture to the ends of each string.......g
Love this!! Have been considering some alternatives to my wood shop. Just have 4 -60 w bulbs lighting the whole place and these long nights have me needing more light when I can muck around in my shop. These seem rather easy. Would love to see how they hook onto the screw bracket you are putting into your truss.
Another good light upgrade for a shop is spot lights on a switch to light up a work station or stationary tools. With a plan you can set them to remove the shadow you would cast on the work so you get good light on what you are working on. Building a dedicated shop you can remote locate the air compressor in a sound proofed shed with an accumulator tank in the workshop to have good airflow without the sound of the compressor coming on all the time to mess with filming. With it closer to the house you can also have a smaller tank and outlet at the driveway to make filling tires easier then breaking out the portable compressor each time you need air.
Looks good my friend! I’m sure you probably already know this but you can also get a replacement LED light bulb/tube that converts those fluorescent light fixtures to LED if you were interested in going all LED for the purpose of saving a little bit on the electric bill. Either way it seems to have made a big improvement in the amount of light in the barn so I would definitely call that a win. 👍
My garage/shop had even worse lighting. I re-purposed several fluorescent fixtures. Then, I added two 120V/20A circuits (L1/N, L2/N) for outlets. Using a tendem/dual circuit breaker (and removing the duplex tabs on the outlets), I have 2z 120V/20A or 1x 240V/20A at the outlets. The biggest advantage: if (when) I pop the breaker for the outlets, THE LIGHTS STAY ON.
My son is having a 40'x50' pole barn built ( they started today ), we're going to install LED lights also. Was wondering how they're doing and hows the lighting in the cold weather months ( we live in Michigan )? Thanks for sharing.
They look like Barilla and I just put 6 in my two car garage. Amazing difference. The only problem is the cord with the switch on it can’t be extended so if you ceiling is 8’ high you can’t get the switch close enough to be convenient. You can use 30 extension cords but the switch will still be 3 feet from light.
You will be soooooo happy with the LED fixtures. I have them in my shop and they make all the difference in the world. I do have a question. Why don't you have a big wood burning stove in the shop? I have electric heat in my shop but I am in town and don't have access to free wood. I enjoy your videos and have learned many tips from you and other videos I watch. Thank you.
I've installed a few 'cheap LED lights' in my garage. They've not been very reliable for me. They start blinking, go dim and eventually quit altogether. But they are the COB type of flood lights, not strips like these. The AC to DC convertors are the point of failure.
People thought I was nuts when I put 2x10,000 lumen LED lights in my garage. They said it was very bright. I said yep, now I don't have to use any other lights to see what I am doing, perfect.
Nice shop, is it heated? I have been debating getting some lights for mine, I have florescent but they are old and go off and on and buzz drives me crazy. Thanks for sharing.
I finally threw all my florescent strips and replaced them with the harbor freight strips years ago. I have
never had a problem and the lighting is awesome.............
Very nice. Shop life just got significantly better.
Looks a lot better. Did the same to my little shop. What a difference it made.
Lights look good ! Why build a new shop ? Pour a concrete floor in your shop add some insulation and a heat source , if it’s not big enough add on to it !
I think it is location, not close enough to the house.
Yeah, it will probably be a livestock later. I need a shop next to the house.
Get a golf cart to travel back and forth! Personally I'm too loud to have a shop close to the house lol
Wow what a difference, amazing
On the humidity issue you have.... I had the same issue. I poured concrete in my barn with visqueen under the concrete. It was still humid, so I bought a $200 dehumidifier and it has been a life saver. It’s amazing the amount of water it removes from my shop. That shop looks to me like it has potential if you finished the walls, and poured a floor. I put a wood furnace in mine as well as a hanging propane heater. My barn/shop was here when I bought the place, and was in in bad shape so I just fixed up what I had. It’s not perfect but I’m thankful to have a shop
The pole barn is a great deal brighter now....great job installing the new lights.
Awesome video man! Thanks for doing this! Helps me decide what I want to do.
Looks like they are very easy to install,and made a big difference on the lighting.
Awesome light video. I have been struggling on what types of lights to put in my shop but after watching this video, I've found the one! Keep up all the great work you do!
Great job!
Your lights look bright. that looks like a very nice barn you have there! Good videos!
I put led lights in my shop. They’ve been great. Cold doesn’t bother them like a fixture with a ballast, and my light bill is next to nothing. You made a good choice.
Nice job, nice result.
Thanks for the LED Light review.... Used your link. Thanks again
Looks great. You can never have enough light.
Very nice like how it just snap together
Good job Evan. Better lighting ... less potential for accidents.
That's the same lights I put in my shop. Very very happy with them. Its surprising how much light one will produce.
Good job. The quality of the light looks great on camera.
Thank You! I just ordered some for my shop. Just what I've been looking for!
That is really cool how they plug into each other that was in series without a cord connecting them in between.
Thank you love your videos
Very good idea and looks great nice find man
Very cool! Looking to light my own pole barn, finally.
They sure make a easy install and still get good lighting. NICE! Art in CA
Love love love all the lights
The lighting in your pole barn looks great.
Great lights and I like the white light, much brighter. The installation was easy if you don't mind the 10 ft climb.
Awesome lights, no more warming up when cold, instant brightness.
Use the extra lights to hang over a work bench area even if you are building a shop cause you can never have to many bench vices on a homestead.
Cheers from Ottawa Canada .
I would seal the oil pol barn after you get your new bigger pol barn in by the house
Great i like the LED lights, just lighting my shop, very similar but more expensive thirty quid each, they are a bit more involved with the connections into a junction box. I like your ultra neat wiring ? Nice video interesting thank you 😊
I bought the same lights from Amazon for my garage. I installed 6 of them and the garage is so bright you need sunglasses to go out there but it is great I can work out there at night and since we live in Arizona it is not that cold this time of year. Thanks for the tip.
I use those same lights as a grow light and they have been working flawlessly for me for over a year. I thought about doing that in my garage but ended up doing a ballast bypass and used led bulbs since I already had all the fixtures wired in. Looks great and I think you will love the bright daylight color light for working.
Made a lot of difference ---
Evan I installed the exact LED lights in my three and a half car garage. You will love them. Super easy to install. Work great. Cheap but awesome. Love your channel.
Man Evan, for as cheap as you're saying those things were, that is one slick install process lol. Looks great!
Great video Evan Have a wonderful new year!
Looks great! Will be interesting to see how long they last!
Very nice job with the lights. I know what you mean by being humid out in a pole barn (I live in Florida).
Hey Evan, thanks for sharing this one. I will be getting some of these lights. Those really lit up your shop and didn’t take long to install either. 👍👍
Wow - quite a difference!!
nice find!
As a maintenance electrician you have my approval!!! Looks great!!!!
I was looking for a video from you. lol. You've spoiled us. Now, I want a daily vid. :))) Will watch this when I done with errands. Thanks
For our big equipment sheds we use those LED corn cob bulbs that go into any light bulb outlet, but with them there very bright and in our sheds there 20ft or more high roofs so there high enough up to not mess with your eye and blind you.
Yeah I have some of those in my dusk till dawn lights.
You're going to really love those LED lights, the light they give off is completely different than fluorescent. I used all LED in my house. It's better lighting for filming, and the cost to run them is miniscule. If it were me I would buy another set and hang them instead of the fluorescent. I looked at your video from the beginning, and your video at the end, and there is a huge lighting difference. Great job it looks fantastic.
Jimmy
looks good what about spare globes qre they available
You did a good job on the lights, never too many lights and the LED's cost less to burn.
Having poor lighting makes me less likely to get something done in my shed -- who wants to work in the gloom? I went with a combination of the long LED fluorescent replacements similar to yours as well as three big High Pressure Sodium replacement types. I use the big ones in the center, and the strip ones as task lights around the perimeter. I love the 5000k (daylight) light. The dim yellow light from the old fluorescent tubes will not be missed!
Have you thought about putting in a mezzanine in the back of the shed? It gives you a ton of extra storage space, and the lower ceiling under the mezzanine is a great place for a work bench -- a lot easier to light! You can also make a room like I did -- but you would need to pour a concrete floor. Just some food for thought. Our pole bard had a gravel floor when we bought it as well, and we had concrete poured to stop the dampness. It is dramatically drier out there now!!
This barn will probably be a livestock barn later. I would really like a work shop closer to the house.
Hi...... 🎥👍👍👍
Good job with the lights. We are going to need to put lights in our pole barn also and you can see our build on our channel.
I checked out your channel last night. Your videos remind me of red poppy ranches sytle. Good luck with the barn.
Country View Acres that is really encouraging to us because that was the first channel we had ever found before we knew any of the others. We really appreciate you checking out our channel it means a lot.
Check out the post and beam barn on Lumnah Acres that would be a get work shop and look good close to your house
Let there be light . Looks great . I like the daylight for the shop . Hate daylight for in the house . Had a daylight bulb in the bed room and it drove me nuts , Like the way you can stagger the lights in line with cable connectors instead of putting up the lights end to end . You wish to get a real pole barn built some day . Had to laugh at that . Wish I had an artificial pole barn like you have . LOL .
That was illuminating...😁
Replace the metal roofing and turn this into your equipment shed for the tractor and stuff
Those are nice, I'd toss the old ones and buy more if they last because of the electrical savings
way to go.....fluorescent is good but does not want to light up when the temperature is low. everything else is costly as you go up in illumination. leds have revolutionized the lighting industry. i do not believe you will be disappointed. i think you need to add another fixture to the ends of each string.......g
Nice!
Good lighting is key. And a man can never have enough light and it's like duct tape and zip ties never have enough.
100% correct on all accounts.
John M well said!
Love this!! Have been considering some alternatives to my wood shop. Just have 4 -60 w bulbs lighting the whole place and these long nights have me needing more light when I can muck around in my shop. These seem rather easy. Would love to see how they hook onto the screw bracket you are putting into your truss.
@kmeyer52172 they just clip into the sides of the lights.
Hi. Do you know what the model or part number of these lights are? Thanks
brighter than a O.R
Another good light upgrade for a shop is spot lights on a switch to light up a work station or stationary tools. With a plan you can set them to remove the shadow you would cast on the work so you get good light on what you are working on.
Building a dedicated shop you can remote locate the air compressor in a sound proofed shed with an accumulator tank in the workshop to have good airflow without the sound of the compressor coming on all the time to mess with filming. With it closer to the house you can also have a smaller tank and outlet at the driveway to make filling tires easier then breaking out the portable compressor each time you need air.
Looks good my friend! I’m sure you probably already know this but you can also get a replacement LED light bulb/tube that converts those fluorescent light fixtures to LED if you were interested in going all LED for the purpose of saving a little bit on the electric bill. Either way it seems to have made a big improvement in the amount of light in the barn so I would definitely call that a win. 👍
I believe I would order a few more for spares.
That was a very well spent $100 👍🤠
Looks very similar to some 8' lights I got from OmniRay Lighting in MN.
Are you ever going to finish working on an Allis-Chalmers tractor or because you had the two new ones giving you are you abandoned in it
My garage/shop had even worse lighting. I re-purposed several fluorescent fixtures. Then, I added two 120V/20A circuits (L1/N, L2/N) for outlets. Using a tendem/dual circuit breaker (and removing the duplex tabs on the outlets), I have 2z 120V/20A or 1x 240V/20A at the outlets. The biggest advantage: if (when) I pop the breaker for the outlets, THE LIGHTS STAY ON.
Nice job. Did Santa bring you a new steel chain saw for Christmas? Well, now is clearance time.
I plan on buying a saw soon. I am saving up for it.
Dave Ramsey style.👌👌@@CountryViewAcres
I have searched on Amazon but cannot find the LED's you used. Can you identify what the "ordering information" is so I can buy? Great video, thanks
My son is having a 40'x50' pole barn built ( they started today ), we're going to install LED lights also. Was wondering how they're doing and hows the lighting in the cold weather months ( we live in Michigan )? Thanks for sharing.
They look like Barilla and I just put 6 in my two car garage. Amazing difference. The only problem is the cord with the switch on it can’t be extended so if you ceiling is 8’ high you can’t get the switch close enough to be convenient. You can use 30 extension cords but the switch will still be 3 feet from light.
Do you still like your pole barn lights
You will be soooooo happy with the LED fixtures. I have them in my shop and they make all the difference in the world. I do have a question. Why don't you have a big wood burning stove in the shop? I have electric heat in my shop but I am in town and don't have access to free wood. I enjoy your videos and have learned many tips from you and other videos I watch. Thank you.
There is so many gaps around the floor and the ridge vent, it does hold heat. When I build a workshop I will install a wood stove in it.
They look like they would be throw away. If they stop working you replace the whole fixture??
They are, but don't cost much more than teplacement bulbs for the other type. They don't cost as much as to replace a ballast.
Now, this was the original pole barn on the property, right? With snow on the ground, this must be right around Thanksgiving?
2 years later . . how are they working?
They are called Linkable because you can link them together
Really lights up your shop. Will these work well in the cold? Some of the fluorescents do not seem to work well when outdoors.
Yes these are bright in the cold, the fluorescent lights are dim and get brighter as they warm up.
Looks great. How are the lights holding up?
They are all still working
@@CountryViewAcres Thanks. I'll order a couple of sets.
The pole barn has a bright future. lol
I've installed a few 'cheap LED lights' in my garage. They've not been very reliable for me. They start blinking, go dim and eventually quit altogether. But they are the COB type of flood lights, not strips like these. The AC to DC convertors are the point of failure.
People thought I was nuts when I put 2x10,000 lumen LED lights in my garage. They said it was very bright. I said yep, now I don't have to use any other lights to see what I am doing, perfect.
Lights still holding up ok?
Any problems after a year?
Nice shop, is it heated? I have been debating getting some lights for mine, I have florescent but they are old and go off and on and buzz drives me crazy. Thanks for sharing.
It isnt heated, cold and drafty.
Are you still having good luck with your pole barn lights?
Yes, they are still working fine.
Are they all still working?
Yes, no issues with them.
9:45 makes me nervous
And Evan said “ let there be light” so he went on amazon and there was light.
Take the ones you took down and put them down at the barn..........
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You've got to be an electrician of some type!
I have an electronics degree, but I am not an electrician.
Have you seen youtuber RR Buildings he builds pole barns good work too. Think he's not too far from you.
He is about 4 hours away. a little too far.
What is wrong with your image? It appears you are using a green screen for a LOT of the video....were you?
No I don't have a green screen. That was the way it was filmed.
Build a shed inside barn.... sounds dumb but it will protect your tool........ cheap project.....
Lost interest you intro was 2 long