Barrina (Pack of 12 LED T5 Shop Light, 4FT, 2200lm, 6500K, 20W, Linkable

I was looking for lighting options for my new shop (30'x60' Metal building) and having built a few shops in my life I knew that I wanted a good bit of light which also usually means spending a good bit of money.I poured my slab and erected the Red Iron portion of my shop and had a guy come in and install the insulation and the metal sheeting, as I had never done this before so I felt more comfortable paying someone that does it for a living to do it right and not worry about leaks.When he began installing the insulation and metal I asked him if he knew what type of lighting might be best for my building? he told me that he built another shop for a friend of his and that he had used LED lighting "which I knew from research was pretty costly" He went on to say that his friend told him it was very cheap and the lighting was excellent so he purchased a 12 pack of these lights for his own building and was surprised to see how well they worked, so with that being said I asked him to send me the information for the lighting...I was very skeptical about the lighting when it arrived even tho it had a lot of good reviews, but they were mostly reviews from people who had installed one or 2 in their houses with low ceiling heights "my shop walls are 12' tall with a max height of 15' in the middle and I had planned to install the lights directly to the perlins at about 13'.Upon receipt of the first 12 pack that I ordered all of the lights appeared to be in great shape and had all the hardware with them... They are VERY light weight.Upon instillation of the first 12 lights I plugged them in and WOW they were Much better than I expected, but because of my personal lighting requirements I decided to order some more, but ING had stopped selling the 12 pack bundles so I ordered 2 packs of 8 each for a total of 16 extra lights, when in reality I only needed 6 more to complete the celing lighting but figured I would just get a few extra to go on the walls also and to have a few extra if any of mine went out.... The 18 total lights that I have on the roof are more than enough lighting to illuminate my 30'x60' Shop which is 1800 SF.... I highly recommend these little lights for all your lighting needs.If you had to go out and buy new florecent fixtures from your local box store you would have to spend about $20 minimum per fixture plus cost of bulbs and would need about the same amount of fixtures and bulbs so you would be right at about $500 after tax for bulbs and fixtures and the lighting would not be as clean or as bright.The LED fixtures are the best Value for your dollar in terms of light output, ease of install and clean looks.

Great product! I installed twelve of the Barrina 6500k LED lights, connecting 6 in series in my poorly lit 2-car garage, 6 on LEFT and 6 on RIGHT side.The 6500 K bright white is extremely white light to show true colors, which is great for doing project work, car maintenance, painting, washing cars, whatever.Easy to install, lightweight and great how they connect to one another end to end when in a straight line, appears like a single long light strip when installed. I used a laser level to shine a horizontal straight line on the ceiling, installed two anchors into the drywall for each light strip, screwed in clips, and snap the lights in end for straight lines and short connector cables (purchased separately) for the 90-degree turns to basically create a perimeter of light strips around the garage. Install took about an hour, including the measuring and planning to determine where to position the lights.I plugged them into a TP-Link Alexa-enabled controllers, plugged into the receptacles in the ceiling for garage door openers, so I can turn Left, Right, or both 6-light series on or off with Amazon Echo devices, or Apps. I plan to install Wiremold strips to conceal the wires soon.Great product, great value, fantastic LIGHT for my garage!

lights are bright and come with all connections. easy to install.

I'm a car guy. I have a 2 car garage, and I use it to actually store 2 cars. It's not a storage area, it's not a gym it's a garage. In addition to the 2 cars I have shelves with automotive stuff, tools, fluids etc. I have a work bench. Then I have the other stuff, 2 bicycles, a couple of kayaks and various sports equipment. When I moved in about 20 years ago I installed 3 of the typical 4 ft.-2 fluorescent fixtures in the ceiling to supplement the 2 ceiling bulbs that came with the house. The lighting was obviously better but still sucked. I have a lift in my garage and I do routine maintenance and it's still tough to see well while working on the cars. Over the past few years I've been looking at LED's but the more I looked the more confused I got and essentially it was paralysis by analysis. This past week I decided OK, enough is enough. I need more light. I looked at bunch of Youtubes and these lights kept popping up in different reviews and they were very positive. So, I ordered 12 of these. I figured after all these years of working in crappy light there's no such thing as too much light. These showed up very quickly.I was amazed how light a box of 12 of these was. Then I was amazed how lightweight each bulb was. Quite honestly my 1st impression was this quality must suck. The little mounting brackets that hold the bulbs in place look like they would not hold a Q-tip in place.Anyway, I screw in the 1 little screw that holds each of the mounting bracket in place & I snap the bulb in. The bulb snaps in perfectly and securely. I then attach the power cord and plug that in and holy crap-let there be light. The 1 bulb was amazing. What's really nice about these is that you can run these bulbs in a straight line directly connected to one another and or you can use the 4ft wire that enables you to also connect additional bulbs. You can run I think it said as many as 6 bulbs off of 1 power cord. I put 6 of these up so they form a perfect rectangle over the perimeter of the car that would be on the lift. I put 2 over my work bench and 2 above the 2nd car. The last 2 I put in the unfinished part of my finished basement that I use to store car parts and my race tires. Although I had bulbs and fluorescents there, these give off way more light and a better quality light.And the entire time I was mounting these I did not drop 1 bulb until I said to myself I can't believe I have not dropped any bulbs-sure enough I got cocky & careless and dropped 1 from an 8ft ladder. I figured, OK it's done but I have 11 more. To my amazement it was not damaged and worked perfectly. Now I had slack in some of the wires up on the ceiling. So, I get my trusty staple gun and said to myself-don't put the staple through the wire-sure enough 1st staple dead center through the wire-but the lamp still worked. Next one, I said to myself OK, I already screwed up 1 and got lucky it still worked-next staple another perfect shot through the wire and the bulb still worked. I did remove both of these staples and finally got the hang of not stapling through the wires.All I can say is these things work as advertised. Incredibly easy to install, give off tremendous light. Time will tell about their longevity but 1st impressions are you won't be disappointed by these.I had both my cars outside while doing this and it was late morning early afternoon. One of my neighbors was passing by as I was opening the garage door to put the cars back-he came over and asked if I was doing surgery in there. he said he could not believe the light coming out of my garage.

For reference I originally had 18 of these lights in my garage/workshop. I had them running 2 sets of 8 on 2 separate switches, and a set of 2 on 1 switch. The switches are plugged into an outlet in the garage.I have been using them for around 6 weeks at this point. I use them daily for several hours.The first thing to know is that the lights themselves exceeded my expectations for the brightness and functionality. For what I purchased the lights to do, my opinion is that expectations are beyond what I was hoping.Installation: I installed the lights running front to back in 4 lines of 4 each. I also installed 2 above one of my workbenches and attached them to the underside of the shelf on the workbench. I used the included hardware other than changing the mounting screws out for longer screws so they would be more secure. I was able to mount all the lights into the cross beams running in the ceiling of the garage so that I would not have to worry about anchor issues. If I were going to use anchors, I would not have used the supplied anchors. I would recommend upgrading to self-drilling drywall anchors. There are a plethora to choose from on Amazon but just for reference, this is what I am referencing:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F2WMCP2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Here are some little hints for installation made easier if you are installing the lights end to end as I did using the included 1 inch union.• I lined up one end to the other using a simple nail and string to help me keep the line straight. (a nail at each end and the string from end to end.) However, I highly recommend you install your first light then attach and hold the second light in place, mark the location, and install the second light and so on until you are finished with that row. On my first string of 4 I originally marked the brackets off along the string and installed both brackets for all 4 lights. Big mistake as the slightest amount off caused aggravation. Note that if you are using the included longer union cord, then this will not be an issue.The only reason I did not give these lights 5 stars. ***The switches. The switches are cheap. I mean really cheap.*** Note the included pictures of failed switches where the rocker melted. One switch is melted to where it would not move. The other switch is melted up and will no longer touch the contact, thus it is just loose. You are basically rolling the dice on the end result of the malfunction. After I installed the lights, within a week, I noticed that one of the switches was making a crackling noise and was hot to touch. I watched them all closely after this and never left the lights on without being in the garage. A day later the switch failed. I had extra so replaced it and just wrote it off to 1 bad switch in the batch. Less than a week later, same thing. Ugh…..So I wrote to Barrina via email and explained. No response so I went through amazon messaging and finally got a response. They agreed to replace the 2 switches. I got those switches in the mail. However, by the time I received them a third switch had failed. However, the replacement switches are EXACTLY the same as the originals.The only string of lights I trust at this point to not cause these switches to fail are the ones with just 2 lights on the string. I have not had them fail on that string. You may have better luck having 4 lights on the switch, but I do not desire to have 5 separate switches for the garage lighting varying in length from 15 to 30 ft depending on where I choose to plug them in. My solution was to purchase higher quality switches and just replace the cheap, and in my opinion, useless, switches with the higher quality switches. This gives me the ability to now link 16 lights on one switch and also have the peace of mind that the switch will not burn up and cause a fire if I am not in the garage when the lights are on. Here is a link to the switches I purchased from Amazon. They are installed and functioning like a champ. I love that I now have all the lights on one switch!!!! They were only about 13.00 for 10 switches so not that big of a deal. But still adds to the cost if you are comparing based on price.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XPN8PL8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1To summarize:• The lights are amazing. I highly recommend them, even with the given switch problem.• They function exactly as described, if not better.• Installation is simple. Just remember what I mentioned in my tip to keep them aligned in a long string.• Switches are cheap and I would not put more then 2 lights on them at a time. Thus, you may want to include the cost of purchasing higher quality switches into your budget, if that is an issue. Click on the included link above for the switches I purchased.

02/22/2024...FANTASTIC customer service. They immediately reached out to me and asked me to retest the lights. Obviously the one light was bad. The rest of the lights turned out to be all good. My error. Barinna sent replacement lights at no charge and the arrived it just a couple of days after they said they would send them. I would highly recommend this product. The lights are fantastic. They really lit up my dimly lit garage. When you do have an issue, they stand behind their product and make it right. KUDOS!!Initially I was very happy with these lights. My garage was much brighter. However, I came home tonight to find one to find one side of my garage unlit. Investigating I found the first light in the string experienced a short. Thinking one light went bad I removed it from the string, reconnected the rest (5 lights). None of the other 5 work either. It seems that one light shorted talking the whole string of lights out. See pictures. I have reached out for warrantee and I am awaiting a response.

I ordered a 6 unit system for my shop in Canada. It was easy and quick to install and transformed my shop experience by illuminating with a brilliant blue white light. When I arrived at my shop in Georgia in a large garage I ordered a double system with 2 packs of 6 in one box.Although it wasn’t listed as an option I connected all 12 lights on one circuit for convenience — one switch. Works brilliant. But I was one male-to-female connector short because of the off-label configuration I made. I emailed Barrina - got an immediate positive response from Zari (on a Sunday!) and after a brief exchange of information was advised that a replacement connector pack will be shipped out to me shortly, gratis.Later Zari got back to me to inform (gently warn) me that 8 units daisy-chained was the safe limit due to potential circuit overload so I complied and easily reconfigured the 12 units on 2 circuits so good followup by Barrina.So a completely positive experience — the product is great, at a good price, and the customer service superlative. Five stars +.

Replacing 50's era fluorescent fixtures -m these are so much more efficient and much brighter

These lights are great. they come with tons of connectors, links and joiners. Pigtails for connecting to regular light switches, etc. Normal plugs with switches as well. Enough stuff that you can easily hook them up in a bunch of different places, one pack of 6 or 12 doesn't have to all be installed in the same place.They are nice and bright, easy to install/mount. My ONLY complaint is I wish you could link the daisy chain cables together so you can set the individual bars further apart.. you could of course cut and splice them though If it was really necessary.

I've been using these Barrina T5 LED shop lights in my fish room since December 2024, and they have been excellent. They provide bright, clean white light that evenly illuminates my aquariums and work areas without producing excessive heat.Installation was straightforward, and the ability to link multiple fixtures together made it easy to customize the lighting setup. After months of daily use, all of the lights are still working perfectly with no flickering, dimming, or failures.The low power consumption is another big plus, especially when running multiple fixtures for extended periods. The light output is impressive for the price, making these an outstanding value.If you're looking for reliable, bright, and energy-efficient lighting for a fish room, workshop, garage, or utility space, I highly recommend these lights.Pros:Very bright and even light outputEasy installationEnergy efficientLinkable designReliable long-term performanceA great purchase that has exceeded my expectations.

My parents ordered these through me, they wanted to replace the old tube lights that they had. My dad said these were easy to attach and put up and are super bright. The company even reached out to me to let me know if we needed anything to let them know. Super impressed all around with how they look and the customer service!

Very good lights east to install. Dis not give 5 stars because if you wire them directly to power the cords to attach are male and female only when two male are required or a t junction would be good as well to install corded switch at power point. Otherwise nice and light very slim line and bright! Overall happy with purchase would buy again

Simple install, flexible configurations you can gang them together or use standalone, they provide wires for a simple lamp type switch install or hard wired, also wires provided to gang multiple side by side or even spaced out a few feet, plenty of extra wires and connectors to install all in individual location. Not to mention super bright.Iv even gone as far to pull the the bulbs and ballast out of my standard lights and install these inside The housing so they look like everyday florecent lights and the added bonus of the diffuser but it’s not needed this is just a personal preference.Also I have been using them for over a year and none have failed, compared to those retrofit LED Florence bulbs witch I have had multiple fail within months.100% recommend these and will buy again when needed, nice size pack, and price.See my comparison photo of my retro fit led bulbs in housing on the left compared to these stand alone lights on the right. And second photo of the lights inside the housing, there is a single light in each housing not 2 like the original fluorescent lights.Also super light and aluminum casing, is lighter then a normal fluorescent bulb alone.