As I eluded to in other posts earlier this year, The governor of Colorado back in 2023 signed into state law the ban of sales of Fluorescent lighting and a few other types in the state of Colorado effective January 1st, 2025.
See details here:
https://inside.lighting/news/23-05/colorado-poised-2025-fluorescent-banso that means LED from here on for the buildings I am responsible for maintaining. Once we use up our existing stock of fluorescent. I anticipate this being a slow gradual transition over to LED at many of my buildings. I've already retrofitted 2 of our church buildings over to LED that are in the city limits of Denver as they required commercial properties over a certain size to be LED by January 1st of 2024. I have 2 sources of LEDs that I have been obtaining from, one a local distributor that has been using the Sylvania/LEDVANCE LEDs (they break very easily if not careful) and I also have been ordering from 1000bulbs . com. So far so good. I get a bad out of box LED from Sylvania about every 2-3 cases, and I have only had 1 bad case of tubes from 1000 that were mostly broken in the box despite good packaging. I'm going with the 3500 and 4000K Type-B direct wire type, bypassing the ballasts. The brand I go with the most from 1000 bulbs is PLT and using the 3500K. I get both the 1700 lumens and the 2200 lumens, depending on how bright we need things. I do use 4000K when requested for our recreation hall areas, but the 3500 is a great go-between and many like it over the 3000K T8s they are replacing.
https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/222783/PLTS-20112.htmlWe'll see how well these hold up in the long run. I think they'll do much better vs the terrible T8 crap that has been coming from Philips, GE, and Sylvania over the past 10 years, mostly from China.
