LED Batten or LED tube?

[PREES]

We are planning the lighting for our new milking parlour and calving pens and trying to understand the difference between an LED Batten fitting and an LED tube fitting. Our electrician has suggested that we go for a fitting with LED tubes so that at the end of its life we can simply replace the tube rather than fitting an unit that you have to replace the entire unit at the end of life. So can anyone share their experience and explain the difference and benefits of one type of unit compared with another? Is there a batten unit that you can just replace the light source at the end of life without having to change the entire fitting? Are we missing something?

 

[Kidds]

Well my led battens have separate led tubes in them.

 

[PREES]

@Kidds - what make do you have?

 

[Kidds]

@Kidds - what make do you have?

Came from Screwfix

 

[fermerboy]

I have both, the LED batten is the full job, the thing is sealed more or less, the ones I have don't seem to have a tube in them so if it goes pop you have to change the whole thing, which could be a sparky job depending on your abilities.

The LED tubes I have are a replacement for a normal tube in a fluresent fitting. They have been a great success for getting old lights going again, open up old fitting rewire so 240v goes to the tube connections at one end, fit new LED tube, jobs a good one. No faffing with starters or dud ballasts inside the box etc.

 

[robandles]

I just changed my garage over to LED battens from Screwfix. Made by LAP and the light is fantastic.
They are so simple to wire up. No faffing with terminals the size of a mouse's areshole as all you do is slide the wire in and it locks.
Brilliant.

 

[TheTallGuy]

I would say that tube style fittings are generally a compromise in performance, whereas proper battens are more optimised for both light and heat dispersion. Take a look around any supermarket that has LED lighting & they will be proper LED fixtures rather than tubed fittings. Obviously you loose the ability to swap the tube, but with that's unlikely to be an issue unless you buy cheap nasty fittings!

 

[Bongodog]

LED batten every time,, but word of warning make sure how the connections go or you will end up swearing, I've had three types so far from Screwfix, some the wires go in from the end and they have an outlet at the other end so you can rig up a long line in series with the cabling clipped to a purlin beside them.
Some have the cable go in from the top as with old style tube fittings so ideal for a room with celings and the last type have a metre of flex wired into them.