Hey folks,
I'm looking to replace four 3000-lumen shop lights that currently illuminate my shop / temporary house, with dimmable & white tunable (so probably just RGBW) lighting. It's about a 24-by 20-foot area, with a 12 foot ceiling, so my current lights are hung from the ceiling at about 10 feet.
If I need to, I can replace each fixture with three individual A-19 sockets and just put conventional 60-watt equivalent RGW bulbs in, but I don't want to do that 12 times. I'd rather install four new larger fixtures of some kind, but they need to be bright enough to compare with what I've got while still being RGBW controllable.
That is like the holy grail. I just tried to find something like this for my garage. I settled on some lamps that are adjustable color, but not by an app. There is just a simple toggle that allows you to choose.
And dimmable shop lights are apparently not a thing either. Unless you go to 0-10V dimming or 277V/commercial you are out of luck in most cases.
I tried recessed lights (too dim) and previously had two A19 dimmable (too dim and not enclosed/ugly) in a splitter socket.
They are fairly bright on my 10 foot ceiling, but I also wired in some sockets for conventional tube lights on a dumb switch that I can control as needed for woodwork etc.
In most cases the "fancy" lights are what is used daily, and for the automations. They dim fine on a GE/Jasco dimmer.
Yeah, that's sort of what I figured. I was just hoping I would get lucky and someone would have stumbled across an obscure but fantastic solution.
For what I'm wanting to do, I think I'm probably gonna end up wanting actual automatable white-tuning, rather than a button push, but I'm definitely filing this unit away for future use in another application!
Probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve had these in my kitchen for the past two years and love them. 1400 lumens, RGBW, and Amazon sold them for $25 for a very brief time (less than a day).
They do still go on sale for around $100 each.
With 4 kids in the house, these are probably on 18 hours a day and I haven’t had any failures, same goes for the standard Sylvania RGBW rt 5/6 lights.
Just to throw an idea.
I replaced the fluorescent light in my old garage with track light that use heads with A19 sockets (which actually not easy to find, most of track light head use 2-legs bulbs).
In such case, you can just install the tracks and add as many heads as you want.
I was just hoping I would get lucky and someone would have stumbled across an obscure but fantastic solution.
