Q: What color temperature do I need?

Color temperatures range from warm white to cool white. 2700K - 3000K – provides an ambient, intimate, and personal mood with its warm white light that is ideal for living rooms, family rooms, and hospitality environments. 3500K - 4100K – provides a clean and efficient neutral white light that is ideal for kitchen, bath, garage or commercial applications. 5000K - 6500K - provides a vibrant and alert cool white light that is ideal for commercial, industrial, and institutional applications. Our LED tubes typically come in: 5 W, 12 W, 14 W, and 19 W options. Their fluorescent equivalents are 8 W, 12 W, 25 W, and 32 W.

Q: What length do I need?

LED tube lights come in lengths from 1 foot to 8 feet long. Depending on your situation or fixture, tubes of different lengths may be needed. In office settings, you will usually find 2 to 4 foot length tubes while 8-foot tubes are usually found in industrial and older retail stores.If your building is currently using T12, 8-foot incandescent tubes, we recommend to retrofit to 4-foot length fixture.

Question 1

What color temperature do I need?

Accepted Answer

Color temperatures range from warm white to cool white.

2700K - 3000K – provides an ambient, intimate, and personal mood with its warm white light that is ideal for living rooms, family rooms, and hospitality environments.

3500K - 4100K – provides a clean and efficient neutral white light that is ideal for kitchen, bath, garage or commercial applications.

5000K - 6500K - provides a vibrant and alert cool white light that is ideal for commercial, industrial, and institutional applications.

Our LED tubes typically come in: 5 W, 12 W, 14 W, and 19 W options. Their fluorescent equivalents are 8 W, 12 W, 25 W, and 32 W.

Question 2

What is a ballast, and do I need one?

Accepted Answer

A ballast is a device that regulates the voltage and current supplied to fluorescent and HID lighting fixtures. LED tube light voltage is regulated by an LED driver, which is usually built into the tube, so a ballast is not required for it. However, many LED tubes on the market are ballast compatible for retrofitting purposes. While LED tubes are often ballast compatible, we do not recommend using them because they can consume up to an additional 20% more in power.

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Question 3

What is the difference between integrated vs. non-integrated?

Accepted Answer

The integrated options are self-supporting and can be surface mounted. They can even be plugged together to create continuous lengths of light. The non-integrated option can be connected directly to the line voltage for easy installation.

Question 4

What length do I need?

Accepted Answer

LED tube lights come in lengths from 1 foot to 8 feet long. Depending on your situation or fixture, tubes of different lengths may be needed. In office settings, you will usually find 2 to 4 foot length tubes while 8-foot tubes are usually found in industrial and older retail stores.If your building is currently using T12, 8-foot incandescent tubes, we recommend to retrofit to 4-foot length fixture.

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What color temperature do I need?

What is a ballast, and do I need one?

What is the difference between integrated vs. non-integrated?

What length do I need?