We recently purchased shop lights from American Green Lights and were super impressed and thankful to Jim for designing the optimal custom lighting layout for the workshop. Very high quality lights - 95 CRI !! - and awesome customer service.
Sooo... A couple of questions for you. How is flicker? The new lights I bought give me fits. At 24fps and 1/50 it’s doable and is only noticeable if I speed up footage. 60fps at 1/125 might be okay but once I slow it down it’ll probably be really noticeable. I won’t even try 120fps. With photos I HAVE to shoot at 1/125 no matter what or the image is completely unusable. Really caught me off guard because my cheep Costco lights never gave me problems at all. I just didn’t like the 4000k temp. The other thing I was wondering is about harsh shadows with the new lights. Your old lights looked diffused and the new ones not so much. Again, same issue here. It’s taken some getting used to for sure. In fact a few of them I have experimented with diffusing them with parchment paper, which actually works pretty darn good. Anyway just wondering your thoughts. I think I’m going to suffer with these for a while and then switch them out again. American Green Lights has been on my radar for a long time. Almost exclusively because they seem to be the only ones that make garage/shop lights with a high CRI.
These lights have given me zero flicker. I've shot 240fps on my iPhone, and 60fps on my m50 with zero flicker. My old lights gave me flicker at 60fps if i wasn't shooting 1/100. Same for shooting photos with my old lights, one shot would be under, next shot same settings it was over. Really frustrating without even addressing the color shifts. The diffusion of the old lights was a little bit better but they had diffusion tubes over the strips of legs. These do not and I've actually been on the lookout for how to put some diffusion on them only because of how low my ceiling is. The American Green Lights have been awesome on the back end though, the colors are accurate and no longer do I have to slam my head on my desk trying to fix my jaundice skin tone.
Hello, I stumbled upon your video. I just ordered and received a pack of American Green Lights. I ordered the same type you have in your video. Can you please tell me what you used to connect the LEDs strips to one another? I purchased a set of 12LED strips and I’m not sure what I should be connecting them with. TY
The music in your video kept getting louder than you talking and it also continued to play through the ads that popped up. It was weird, so I missed most of what you were saying. I’ve never had that happen before.
We recently purchased shop lights from American Green Lights and were super impressed and thankful to Jim for designing the optimal custom lighting layout for the workshop. Very high quality lights - 95 CRI !! - and awesome customer service.
I got some Led 9005 &9006 green the high beams are self dimming , the low beams flicker off & on do I need to load it , with a 6-10-12-24 ohm resistor
I have no idea why you’re asking about car headlights.
Does anyone know the difference between American Greenlight “M” and slightly more expensive “B” series, dimmable LED drivers for their strip fixtures?
B series is 48 watts. The M series is max 36 watts
Good info thanks.
Do these lights bother your eyes at all? Looking at getting the same ones.
That’s really cool, of course I just put up a bunch of amazon Cheapo lights in the shop, had know idea.
You’ll probably be fine, I’ve heard of some amazon lights actually being pretty decent.
Sooo... A couple of questions for you. How is flicker? The new lights I bought give me fits. At 24fps and 1/50 it’s doable and is only noticeable if I speed up footage. 60fps at 1/125 might be okay but once I slow it down it’ll probably be really noticeable. I won’t even try 120fps. With photos I HAVE to shoot at 1/125 no matter what or the image is completely unusable. Really caught me off guard because my cheep Costco lights never gave me problems at all. I just didn’t like the 4000k temp.
The other thing I was wondering is about harsh shadows with the new lights. Your old lights looked diffused and the new ones not so much. Again, same issue here. It’s taken some getting used to for sure. In fact a few of them I have experimented with diffusing them with parchment paper, which actually works pretty darn good.
Anyway just wondering your thoughts. I think I’m going to suffer with these for a while and then switch them out again. American Green Lights has been on my radar for a long time. Almost exclusively because they seem to be the only ones that make garage/shop lights with a high CRI.
These lights have given me zero flicker. I've shot 240fps on my iPhone, and 60fps on my m50 with zero flicker. My old lights gave me flicker at 60fps if i wasn't shooting 1/100. Same for shooting photos with my old lights, one shot would be under, next shot same settings it was over. Really frustrating without even addressing the color shifts.
The diffusion of the old lights was a little bit better but they had diffusion tubes over the strips of legs. These do not and I've actually been on the lookout for how to put some diffusion on them only because of how low my ceiling is.
The American Green Lights have been awesome on the back end though, the colors are accurate and no longer do I have to slam my head on my desk trying to fix my jaundice skin tone.
Hello, I stumbled upon your video. I just ordered and received a pack of American Green Lights. I ordered the same type you have in your video. Can you please tell me what you used to connect the LEDs strips to one another? I purchased a set of 12LED strips and I’m not sure what I should be connecting them with. TY
Hey that’s awesome! I used 18ga wire to daisy chain each led run. Here’s a link to what I used : amzn.to/3i6xP1Y
You probably didn’t pay since they sponsored the video, but about how much would this setup have costed?
the total cost was right around $750
The music in your video kept getting louder than you talking and it also continued to play through the ads that popped up. It was weird, so I missed most of what you were saying. I’ve never had that happen before.
Sounds like something else was playing maybe in a different tab? Watch it again and I promise it was just a glitch the first time.