Barrina LED Shop Lights, 8FT 72W 10000LM 5000K, Daylight White, V Shape, Clear Cover, High Output, Linkable, T8 LED Tube Light, for Garage 8 Foot with Plug (Pack of 10)

Just finished installing 8’ and 4’ lights in my garage.The different length lights link up just fine and the most I have in a single string is 3 (one 8’ and two 4’). They are lighting up my 3 car garage and put out more than enough light to work anywhere within the garage at 4’ spacing. I added additional junction boxes down the middle of my garage to keep the amount of linked lights down since there are restrictions on how many can be direct linked.There are good and bad things with these lights.The good:- The lights are bright and easy to install. 1 clip for each 2’ of light is what I installed at (4 for the 8’ fixture, 2 for the 4’ fixtures.- Cannot beat the price. We will see how long they last.The bad:- They say you can hardwire them. I think they meant “hard to wire” them. The lead they give you in the box for hardwiring is +\- 6” long. The stub of the three stranded wires is only stripped 1.” Anyone who has ever done anything inside a junction box knows that is way too short to easily work with. The stranded three wires coming off the white jacket needs to be 6” long, not the 1” they give you. Fitting three caps inside a j box with 1” of cable separation between load, neutral, and ground is hard, even using Wagos. Stripping the jacket leads to damaged conductors very easily if you aren’t careful… but then that leaves you with basically no room to connect to the fixture. Your Jbox has to be within 3” of the fixture connector.- heat sink and clip. The aluminum chassis that is also the structural back of the fixture is also the LED heat sink. It gets pretty warm. Hind sight being 20/20, I would have opted to mount the brackets with some spacers to get some space between the back of the fixture and my wood joists. I’m not too worried about the heat, but more about the fixture being able to dissipate heat efficiently.- the screws. Go to your big box store and get some proper screws. The tofu pot metal garbage screws they give you strip out very easily. Save yourself some curse words and just pick up a pack of decent screws.- the diffuser. Or lack there of. Nothing like getting glared by direct exposure to LED diodes. It would be nice to have a frosted lens option, even at the cost of illumination reduction.Other thoughts: Not dimmable. Tried hooking up a dimmable Lutron Caseta smart switch. The switch instantly started buzzing and shortly thereafter, the switch went into thermal shutdown. Works fine on a dumb switch.The 4’ cables to link strings cannot link up directly, so don’t think of putting two together and having an 8’ spacing between linked lights. The connectors have to go through a light fixture.

Love these lights. Easy to set up and mount. Very light weight, stuck them to the ceiling with hook and loop tape. Super bright, definitely recommend.

Our garage inly had the 5 small lights in the first pic. I Installed these a couple weeks ago and am pleased with them. I have the original lights on one switch and the LEDs on another. Significantly boosts the light in our garage when they’re on. I cannibalized a few of the 4’ connector cords they came with by clipping one end, then ran wire through the attic to a few j-boxes. Then used some phone/cable face plates to give it a cleaner look on the ceiling. I used inly 4 of them and it is super bright in our 2.5 car garage now. I saw some comments about how ling they last, so just ordered the 8-pack and saved the remaining lights as backups. It will be plug-and-play to replace them.

I never write reviews, but this product deserves one! After doing a lot of research, it seemed this brand was the highest rated and liked. I just wanted bright lights without breaking the bank, so I bought these. I used 9 out of the 10 lights provided; the ones I bought were the 10 pack of 8FT 72W 10000LM 5000K. I ran 3 rows of 3 8Ft LEDs in a 22FT x 34FT garage. My first impression was that I was blown away with how bright they are! But I wondered how long they would last? Well, it's been over 2 years, and they are as good as the day they were installed. All the LEDs work with no fade or burnout, and there's no discoloration on the case or lens.Work in extreme cold and hot temperatures.Here are my pros and cons:Pros: Very bright, reliable, cheap, easy to install.Cons: Slight fast flickering when the 80-gallon two-stage 240v single-phase compressor kicks on, barely noticeable but annoying, easy to live with. Also noticed they flicker on high draw; this is particularly noticeable in summer when the A/C kicks on. They're not on the same circuit but the same bus. The mounting clips provided that hold and support the light work well; however, when you turn the lights on for a few minutes, you hear clicks and pops, not super noticeable, but the noise is there and goes away after a while due to heat contraction, my guess.I like things neat and clean, so I bought additional 1/2" NPT Cable Glands, 16/3 SJTW extension cords, 1 Gang Box junction boxes, and cable clips to mount on the ceiling. I'll sure this as others like my self might be interested in a cleaner installation.