Phillips LED Batten Lighting on sale

[Wimmera Jack]

[I'd be easier just to replace the whole assembly wouldn't it. ]
It all relates to money. And I have the time to do it.

Hooroo

John

[MandJ]

I replaced the tubes in 6 fluros in the craft / computer room a over a year ago, they were supplied with a FUSE inside a replacement starter housing, only required removal of the PF cap and came with the appropriate sticker warning only LED tubes to be used in the fitting, a bit dearer but again from local Bunnings. Same very low power usage - immediate savings on power bill as the old fluros were often on for around 14 hours a day - and way brighter than the 40W fluros.

EDIT: Led fluro replacements tubes were OSRAM SubstiTUBE - 1.2m, 19W, 1700 lm.

[woodPixel]

This is the $25 batten https://www.bunnings.com.au/philips-...atten_p4371386 and https://www.bunnings.com.au/philips-...atten_p4371386

What is CW or DL diffused?

and these are the AEG's: 10X 25X GermanAEG LED T8 glass tube fluorescent Light 9W 18W 60 120cm COOL FROST | eBay

Ive bought the replacement AEG's for the studio and found them excellent.

A few of those wired up ones would be useful for outside and up in the roof cavity!

[warrick]

What is CW or DL diffused? Cool White or Daylight

Rick

[BobL]

The $25 Phillips batten and tube sounds like a really good deal.

FWIW I've have 30 of the $10 AEGs tubes for 27 months, all good.
One half of one tube stopped working but it turned out to be that I had not seated the contacts properly.

Another thing I have found about the plastic LED tubes is that if you have enough of them, unlike the old glass fluoros in a low ceiling shed that needed a protective cover, there is no need for a cover/diffuser and you get more light down onto your work.

[richmond68]

The $25 Phillips batten and tube sounds like a really good deal.

Philips says the light source in SmartBright battens is non replaceable, so a failure means replacing the whole fitting. Not so much a concern in commercial use, but in domestic the legal requirement to use a sparkie makes them not as economic as they could be should they fail. Which they will, the quoted lifespans on led lighting are no more realistic than for any other form of lamp. Remember that quoted lifespans for lighting are at a 50 percent failure rate.

I believe the Philips SmartBright battens also have a glass diffuser.