Do you recommend LED Strips or Tubes for an Office Space?

I will be working in a very small 8’ x 10’ office space, an enclosed room with no windows. This is not an art studio, just office space but lighting is so important to me.

Do you recommend LED strips or tubes? I suspect they may prefer to use tubes, but willing to advocate for strips if you strongly recommend that. If we go with tubes which fixtures do you recommend? Looks like your LED tubes are compatible with any T8-type fixture, but I am not familiar with ballasts and so forth. Better to get without the ballast? What k rating would you recommend?

As our T8 LED tube lights use the same LED light emitters as the LED strip lights, the selection between the two generally comes down to preference. While the LED strip lights can be installed in many more configurations (such as within channels or fixtures), they do require accessories and power supplies.

Alternatively, the T8 LED tube lights are easy to replace and configure while offering the same quality of light and high CRI. The downside to the T8 LED tube lights is that they, unlike the strips, are not compatible with dimmers.

Though we do not have any specific T8 fixtures to recommend at this time, a key term that might be helpful in your search is ‘LED ready’, as these products do not contain ballasts. Based on my review, it appears that Home Depot has many LED Ready fixtures available. That said, the ballast bypass installation method referenced in the below guide allows for any T8 fixture to be usable with our tube lights.

For office lighting, we generally recommend 4000K as it offers a neutral, balanced white color that isn’t too cool or warm.

T8 LED Tube Light Installation Guide: https://www.waveformlighting.com/datasheets/UM_4020.pdf 

If two light LED-ready tube fixture is installed is it possible to have only one light in the fixture? Or must there be two lights in the fixture to make it work? The bottom line here is if two tubes would be overpowering could I take one out and possibly augment with some of your lamp bulbs more at desk level?

The answer would depend on the electrical layout of the fixture, though we generally assume that LED Ready T8 fixtures are designed such that a single light should work without needing a second to be installed.

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