A dead fluorescent light, six dead GU10 LED lamps and a £1.60 LED driver from AliExpress?
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Hah, very good.
I changed one of the garage fittings for LED when the fluorescent tube failed. It’s a much nicer light and I want to change the rest but can’t bring myself to do it while they’re still working.
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Sooner you start the sooner you save and stop bumping into things 
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I recently installed these in our barn - they are very good.
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That’s a good price, out of stock for now though
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I bought these
(or similar, not sure these were the exact ones) for the garage chez moi in the UK a few years ago to replace some 58W fluorescent lamps - they are quite bright!
But I had accumulated rather a large number of dead GU10 lamps, normally it is the miniature switch mode PSU crammed into the stem which heads off for the great electronics store in the sky - the LEDs themselves generally are OK, but very difficult to remove from the small, circular aluminium PCB to which they are soldered - so half a dozen got repurposed. The electronic ballast in the fluorescent had died (the cellar seems to like killing anything electronic) so I needed a new lamp and this seemed the cheapest way of doing it.
Strictly it wound up being a £3.20 LED driver because I bought two, one of which was DoA
I recently binned the florescent lights in the utility room. As the fixtures were the ancient white metal ones from last century, I just went new ABS housings with LED tubes from Weldom.
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They are very bright also
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Well, I’ve bought these kinds of Chinese gadgets, which work really well and let me use them both indoors and outdoors. I move them around and attach them however I need. The light isn’t harsh on the eyes 
Just do it John. I did it years ago in the garage and the cave. No more flicker, flicker, bezzzip, bezzzip shit.. and then light. Which drove me mad. Just on/off no hassle. You don’t need to change anything except the tubes and put in a dummy starter.
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Except the whole fitting is usually better as the diffusers are designed for the LED and often better than the ones for fluorescent
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Yes, I just replaced the tubes in the garage. There were three so overall coverage was more than adequate. But I put in only two genuine LED jobbies in the much larger cave. There are absolutely fine and give better illumination than the garage three.
Any relation to the Guildford Four?
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More in common with the Renault 5.
Electrifying results
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Stick them in the trash along with the duff set of EL 84 valves ( tubes) I got from them!