Costco LED shop lights - $19.99

[Cody Jensen]

I'm curious, but are these the same thing on their website? I'm not a member, so its a little more expensive, but it is still ~$26/light which is much better than I have found.

[mark mcfarlane]

I'm curious, but are these the same thing on their website? I'm not a member, so its a little more expensive, but it is still ~$26/light which is much better than I have found.

Cody, the lights I purchased appear to be identical to the link your referenced. Note that your link is for a PAIR of lights, so the price appears to be the same, ~$20 each, excluding the $5 shipping charge per pair on the website

I'm not sure how you get $26, I get $22.50. Maybe Costco shows different prices based on your location.

Online Price59.99$

Less20.00$-

Your Price39.99$



$39.99 After $20 OFF
$20 manufacturer’s discount is valid 11/29/16 through 12/24/16. While supplies last.

Shipping & Handling: $4.99*
Features:

• Feit Electric 42W
• 4000K Soft White
• 3700 Lumens
• 50,000 Hours
• 2-pack

[Cody Jensen]

I was giving the total cost with shipping/taxes and a non-member surcharge. $52.XX delivered, don't remember exactly.

[mark mcfarlane]

I was giving the total cost with shipping/taxes and a non-member surcharge. $52.XX delivered, don't remember exactly.

FWIW, I'm a member so I'm probably seeing the member's price. If you are gong to buy a bunch of lights the $50 membership fee pays for itself.

[Dave Cav]

I got eight of them for my new shop; I'll install them this spring when I finally move. The shop space is 30 x 40 and I plan to run four fixtures down each side of the ceiling along of the long axis. There are already three T8 fixtures running down the centerline so I should have plenty of light. I will eventually replace the T8s with LED tubes.

While I was at Costco I also got six pair of the Feit led replacement tubes to put in my old shop light fixtures out in the garage. They replace the existing T12 tubes and put out an amazing amount of light and the cold weather has no effect on them.

[Ellen Benkin]

I bought them last year at about $30 each and never looked back. The older you get, the more light you need and these give off great light and no heat -- and they don't flicker or buzz.

[Joe Spear]

I have had issues with Feit fluorescent bulbs, they only last few months, not years.

These aren't fluorescent: they're LED, and they work well.

[David Helm]

I have an 18 light array in my shop. So far I have replaced 12 with these lights @ $29.99. At $19.99 I may just have to finish the last six. I truly love the non buzz, brighter lights that do not affect my office radio.

[Cary Falk]

I buy these from amazon and gut my existing fixtures. They end up being about the same price as the Costco ones. Slightly brighter and 5000k which I prefer.

https://www.amazon.com/Hyperikon-equ...W%2B5000k&th=1

[Bill Space]

[QUOTE=Cary Falk;2631580]I buy these from amazon and gut my existing fixtures. They end up being about the same price as the Costco ones. Slightly brighter and 5000k which I prefer.

https://www.amazon.com/Hyperikon-equ...W%2B5000k&th=1[/QUOTE

Actually Costco here in Pittsburgh has the tubes for about $18 per pair. The ones the OP mentioned are fixtures with tubes included. But I don't think the tubes in these fixtures can be replaced. I have a number of them. Just bought a couple more last week.

As far as the replacement tubes go, I had one fixture where they would not work for some reason, and I had to replace that fixture with one of the Costco ones, that was the fixture plus tubes.

I had one failure of a Costco fixture, one that was a pain to replace due to its location, but Costco took it back with a full refund.

I am pretty happy with the fixtures all in all. Have been using them for about a year now, with no problems but that one which failed.

$20 per fixture or a bit less for the tube replacements seems to be my price point. I will probably buy more of the LED replacement tubes as I have a number of standard fixtures they can be used in.

It looks to me like if the fixture that includes the tubes fails, there is no option but to replace it. The tubes do not look like they are removable for replacement.

All in all I am really satisfied with these LED fixtures/replacement tubes!

Bill

[Brian Bres]

I picked up 8 of these fixtures a couple hours ago. Going to replace the hodge podge of fluorescents shortly.

[Mike Heidrick]

I was giving the total cost with shipping/taxes and a non-member surcharge. $52.XX delivered, don't remember exactly.

It was $9 more for a non member to buy 3 sets. I agree the total was about $26ea after tax shipping and non member surcharge.

[Pete Staehling]

I picked up 8 of these fixtures a couple hours ago. Going to replace the hodge podge of fluorescents shortly.

I have been using these for a while (18 months maybe) and have been very happy with them.

[Mark Blatter]

I would love to get some feedback from others. I have looked at, have actually tried these lights. I have replaced most of the halogen/incandescent lights in my house with LED bulbs. I understand the advantage and the savings with LED lights. Yet I just cannot get my head around moving to LEDs in my shop. I chose to put up T8 fixtures two or three years ago instead of LEDs. I wanted to add more lights in a couple of places last year, so bought a few of the Feit ones now on sale at Costco. Literally the first one I mounted was on for about 2 minutes and stopped working. That was not my first bad experience with Feit, but that is a story for another day.

Today, I am thinking about still adding some lights since I never replaced the LEDs I have purchased. Comparing the T8 with LED, I prefer the T8 lights. They use 64 watts and produce 5400 lumens. LEDs in this case use 42 watts and produce 3700 lumens. The watt per lumen is almost the same. Yes, the LEDs are supposed to last 50,000 hours, verses 30,000 for the T8 bulb. Overall, I guess the T8 costs a bit more when you look at the initial cost to buy and the cost of the bulbs down the road, but it isn't much. In this case, to get the same amount of light, I would need to add 50% more lights.

What am I missing? T8s seem to be a pretty good technology that lasts a long time. My experience with LED is that the lower costs ones fail way to often, so you have extra work replacing them.

Thanks in advance for replies and input.

BTW, if I should take this to a new thread, happy to do so.

Edit:
One thing I should have mentioned. My wife suffers fairly severely from migraines. She averages 17 - 25 days a month fighting them. I did pull out all CFC lights from our house (present when we bought it) and replaced them with LED spots. Most of our lights are can lights in the ceilings. That has helped her a great deal as the flickering in the CFCs are a quick migraine trigger for her. She seldom comes into the shop because of the smells, but helps me with inside tasks. Simply for the migraine issue, I would replace all of my T8 lights with LEDs if she could spend more time in the shop.

[Greg R Bradley]

Mark, you aren't missing much. Most of the LED superiority is just marketing crap. These light make less light and are less efficient than the best of T-8 lamps. The problem is that people replace old worn out fluorescents and think that the LEDs are magic, when the big improvement is new lamps or fixtures. These are pretty decent for extra lamps over a workbench or a tool with the plug and pull chain. But when people start buying a dozen or two of these to replace florescents, that is the indication that they may be headed down the wrong path.
Under heavy shop use of 50-60 hours a week, good T-8 will need new bulbs in 5-8 years and these entire fixtures will hit the trash before that. 50,000 hours for new bulbs at 5-10% light loss with good t-8 bulbs or 50,000 hours for entire new fixtures at 30% light loss with these fixtures.
These are great when you buy a few for extra light over a workbench, etc. Just need to think more about using them for general lighting for an entire shop.

You need to look at the big picture and decide what is best for each use instead of thinking that one technology is better for everything. As the local lighting specialist says "you only have to say the word LED and the people will think they are saving money even if they are buying junk"

At $20 each these are a great deal, just check and make sure they fit your needs before filling up your cart with them.