Barrina LED shop light 8ft, T8, 72 W, 8500 lm, 5000 K, erase cover, V-shape, daylight, tube light, high output 72 W - 8500 lm - 8 ft

There are a number of very similar LED shop lights on Amazon. It is always a challenge to know which have the best quality and customer support if things go wrong. We bought a box of six of these 8 foot LED shop lights for our 24 foot by 24 foot garage. We use our garage for building projects and auto repair, so the lights needed to be bright. We were prepared to buy twice as many lights if necessary. It wasn't necessary and the garage now has a bright, even light. Installation was easy. Some have complained about the clips being too weak. They are thin metal, but the lights are also very light weight, so using the four clips per light appear to be just fine. This Barrina kit comes with more accessories than many similar LED shop light kits which was very handy. Some have complained that the pigtails for permanent wiring are too short. They are pretty short, but they worked perfectly for our application. We installed 3 rows of 2 lights per row - connecting together the 2 lights in a given row. We used single gang, blue old-work boxes to power each row of lights. To make the perfect face plate, use a coax video face plate with the coax connector removed. The pigtail runs through the center hole with enough room inside to connect it to the Romex. The kit comes with 4 foot power cords that can be used to connect two lights. The cords are higher quality than what we thought that we would get based on the pictures on Amazon. We wanted two foot cords without bunching up the wire for a more clean installation look. It turns out that you can buy these mickey-mouse end type cables (so called because of the three circular connectors) on Amazon in various lengths. We used Amazon ASIN: B077GVTV9Q. Curiously, the 2 foot lengths are not currently shown as they were last week, but the 1 foot, 4 foot, 6 foot and 8 foot are listed. Search for "double end connector for T8 LED integrated LED tube". We also tried another brand of LED shop light that had "twice as many LEDs in double rows" and rated at 120W instead of 72W. We thought that they would be better because we really wanted the brightest light. Turns out that those lights do not live up to the advertising. There are twice as many LEDs, but the LEDs are smaller and the bulbs are no brighter than the Barrina bulbs. Using a Watt meter the other bulbs only drew 68 Watts. Also their color was more blue which isn't what we wanted. These Barrina lights draw exactly 72 Watts as advertised and are a really nice color - not too blue and not too red. However, we couldn't find any indication of UL listing on either brand. One of the Barrina LED lights arrived with a defective pixel. We contacted the seller and they responded amazingly fast - within an hour on the weekend. They went out of their way to make the situation right and exceeded my expectations. Very impressed. We ended up buying another box of six 8 foot lights to put in my son-in-laws woodworking shop. That is perhaps the best indication of how well these lights worked for us. Best lights. Best accessories. Best customer service. We highly recommend these lights from Barrina.

Very easy to install. Everything that you need is included. Very bright, great improvement to my shop.

Compared to the other 4FT one I got, these are ALOT brighter and sturdier. You can tell the build quality is quite well. They don't feel cheap or flimsy at all. You can hold it by either end no problem. Installation is very straight forward as all the wiring and connectors are provided. Only downside is when you turn it on, you do see the individual LEDs and it doesn't have the effect of a LED Tape or ones with the frosted covers. However, these are not exactly 8FT, they are 3 inches shy of 8FT, which would not be a problem is the length is not a concern. Another downside will be the mounting brackets. They seemed too thin for the amount of weight it needs to hold. Otherwise, this is a nice LED fixture.

I have these installed in my shop and they are amazing, no more shadows in the garage. They have seen hard usage over the last few years now and not one issue. They mount super tight to the ceiling and put out a ton of light. Cord management is my only gripe but thats a me problem. Would definately buy these again

Overall excellent lighting with reasonable mounting brackets. Color is good at 5000k, and light distribution is excellent. Two items to note. Firstly - 4 of the 12 lamps have failed (30%). Either partly (half the leds don't light up, or completely) these are used in a climate controlled garage and basement and are NOT on that often. 2- the switched outlet plug connector gets very warm, too warm and I would recommend to replace with solid wire plug. Order a replacement non-switched cord. First light failed in the first year, two in the second, and last one on year 4. The rest are working.