Hello Arelor!
I am more concerned for mice bitting through the insulation
of some wire and causing a fire from electrical defect than
for heat produced by the lights. The lights themselves are
still worrisome to me.
My family operated standard electic incandescent lights in the
barn for years. No problems. We had plenty of cats in there
though.
LED's as of late seem to be subpar quality. They go out of
service so fast that their value proposition goes down the
drain.
When I took over the shop, the previous installation had a
series of 8ft-long and 4ft-long fluorescent T12's. When some of
the transformers started to fail after 2 or years of my
occupation, I had all the T12's changed to support T8's. That
was 7 years ago. Now, some of those "new" instant-start
transformers are failing. I am at the point where direct-wire
LED tubes would be a more welcoming solution. But the 8ft-ers
cost about $32 a piece. I would need about 24.
I am not sure if I've seen any other retail space using LED
lighting exclusively.
They are not ecological anymore if they burn before the
power they save compensates their consumption cost, and
neither are they a sound investment. I still use mercury
lights for that reason.
I've gone through at least a handful of T12 fluorescents, in my
first couple of years of operation, and then even MORE T8's
later on. At about $20 a piece, they could add up.
But the LED variety cost even more.
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