Ferrites on the power supply to the source of the interference may help, as close to the source as possible. If the strip lights emit noticable RFI they're probably far from good enough to be sold today. Strict rules these days. Shouldn't have been on the shop shelf in the first place.
Sorry for the OT car but that pic was taken by my phone with six fluorescent fixtures, 4 bulbs each in my shop. I changed them to LED bulbs (no ballasts) before painting my truck, and I almost needed sunglasses until I got used to it. It's like a surgical theater up in there! Further, I had to replace all of the ballasts in the old fixtures as they kept burning out, the LEDs have been on for 5 years and are perfect. They already paid for themselves many times over.
I replaced the bulbs in 50+, 8 ft dual bulb fixtures with LED bulbs a couple of years ago. 36 watt 6500k bright white in the main part of the building & the back room. 48 watt 6500k bright white in the paint room. In the workshop area I had installed pot lights in the ceiling, because if I didn't my forklift would not fit in that room...it was that close. I also replaced those bulbs with LED's. Not only was it much brighter, but I noticed a nice reduction in my electric bill! God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
I don't know if LED fluorescent replacements can be a problem, but my garage door installer told me that some LED replacement bulbs can screw up door openers. Some frequency/noise/voodoo mumbo jumbo but be aware that if your opener misfires, LED bulbs can be the culprit. YMMV
The 4' LED's were just on sale again at Costco. I bought 5 and replaced all the fixtures in my garage. It was an easy R&R as the old fixtures were plugged in to rafter receptacles controlled by a wall switch. What a difference, and no blinking, buzzing, etc. As well as lower energy use-we have the highest electric rates in the nation so every little bit helps on the monthly power bill.
Converted all my 8' 2 bulb fixtures to ballast free LED bulbs with good results, by the way ballasts need to be rated for cold weather if in the freeze zone or will eventually fail, a fixture with the multi mini-LED bulbs also failed within a year & have a circuit board that may or not be available, that particular fixture was over a work bench where hammering etc. may be a contributing factor. I'll stay with converted fixtures sourced from a local habitat for a couple bucks & modified to ballast free use.
I need to do this in my shop, the florescent lights arr starting to***** out. Last year it was a total re-do of my compressor air lines, new 3/4" main lines, new air driers etc. So I think lighting is next on the agenda! 1 question for you guys, I've read and heard from several guys to stay away from the 6500k Brite white Leds as they have a tendency to cause headaches, anyone notice this to be true ? I was told to split the lights, as in if it's 2 bulb fixture, run 1 6500k and another in 4000k. If 4 bulb, run 2 and 2 different Temps and that seemed to cure the problem, so you guys notice headaches? ...
I have had the 6500K bulbs (around 100 of them) in my shop for several years & never experienced any headaches. As bright as it is in my paint bay...If it was going to happen that would be the place! God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
I have not experienced an issues with them, either, but I always use 5000k (daylight) LEDs. Some LED shop lights have a switch which allows you to select between three color temperatures: warm white, daylight, and cool white, so that might be an option for you.
Can't stand the light LEDs give, even if it is called "warm white". That's why I keep it 100% old school
I just installed 36ea 6500k bulbs in a 1200 ft2 shop. It's bright, almost no shadows, and I've not experienced headaches after working in the shop all day.
My game plan was to put enough lights in the shop so that when I turned them all on it would make the walls bulge. Eight 200 watt 2X4 panels in the ceiling got the job done. They chased out all of the shadows too.
I have three of these, and three older, similar 48" LED lights in my 2.5 car garage, so plenty of light wherever I need it. These newer three have the three-position switch mentioned earlier, but I use the daylight setting. I think they were $12 each on clearance at Menards a few months ago, so I couldn't pass that up.
No headaches here either. Put the bright ones up. If you get a headache simply remove a few bulbs and save them for spares, but I think you will really like having a brite shop to work in.
I've got a rack full of LED strip 48 inch lights like In-the-Pink showed in post 73 that I picked up at Costco when they had them on a sale price. I'll get my brother to wire the shop up so each bay has it's own light switch that controls the lights in that area.
Heated part of my shop is 30x40, I bought 5 4’ LED lights with outlets from Menards to start with. I added receptacles to ceiling when I wired it. They are controlled by a wall switch. Haven’t found the need to add more.
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