Hey Ryan, great video, I personally really like the Barina LED's. The fact that they run on 120V makes them a breeze to manage on the electrical side of things and the brightness and color matching are pretty spectacular for the price. As far as the interference with the garage door opener, that just has to do with the way the PWM drivers for the LED's work and they just happen to run in the same frequency range as the garage door opener. That's something that will happen with any light strip that you're going to get unfortunately. You could try using ferrite clamp on cores and ferrite toroids to reduce the amount of interference, but I'm not sure how well that will work with the sheer amount of lights you've got. Just an idea, maybe you could get a Wifi switch for the garage door opener and control the garage from your phone or google assistant. They're around 25-30 bucks, and just plug into your existing garage door opener. They're pretty worth it in my opinion, because mot only can you control the garage from your phone or smart assistant, but you also can get notifications for when the garage door is open. A buddy of mine set his up with the IFTTT app to open when his phone's GPS was in a designated range of his house that he set. Anyways, best of luck figuring out the issue and can't wait to see this great lighting in your future videos. Stay safe, and wash your hands!
Just got these same lights and I agree, the hardwire cable is no where near long enough. I had the same idea to use the switch plug they provided. Glad to see it worked out for you.
Ryan, another fantastic video that was easy to follow along with. The Vette in those lights sure looks purty, looking forward to more videos in the future!
3:30 Don't slice the jacket that far back. Do a short slice near the end and pull the ends apart, it will tear down the length. That way if you hit the conductors it will only be where you will strip them anyway
You should put some on the garage door and just have an extension cord coming from the ceil garage door opener outlet. You can then plug it in when you have the door open and then unplug it when you need to closet the garage door. Since the garage door blocks the light when it’s open.
Should have done a ring around the room instead of parallel lines so your workbench would not be so shadowed and shadows would be minimal everywhere in the space.
I don't have any actual advice about the interference, but I can say I had to change the LED bulb in my garage door opener. If that light was on, the remotes would barely work.
I bought the 4 foot 6 pack about a year and a half ago on amazon! Love them. I hooked mine up separate from my other LED A19 LEDs so that I didn't have to run them every time I was in the garage, just when I needed the extra light. (Hoping to get longer life out of them by not using them when not needed)
LED lights have high frequency drivers and that is what interferes with the radio signal from the garage door opener. The only way around that is to have the lights turned off if you want to use the wireless garage door opener. I have a similar amount of LED lighting in my garage and have the same issue as you.
Working on my final summer project list an this is a great help for garage lighting - thank you! I see the Kent State shirt and Summit Racing sticker - I've got personal connections to both!
if you have led lamps in the garage door opener itself that could be the issue ,they do make an led specifically for openers but make sure your opener is approved by light manufacturer
Great job on the video and I agree that it is better to have more light, than less light. That is a great looking JSB Z06. I have a '12 Grand Sport in Cyber Grey.
Thanks! Awesome spec vette love that color. If you ever change your headlights let me know lol. I have been trying to find a set of Cyber Grey ones to accent the JSB.
Great video and just what I was looking for to do to my two car garage. Really like the cabinets and bench design. Did you build them? If so have you done a video of that or any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
Good video. Thanks for sharing. Did you get the garage doors to work? If not, it could be when you cut off the electrical to install the lights, the garage door openers reset and now you need to re-program.
Your door sensors are likely "blinded" by the lights. Try taping toilet paper rolls to them to act as a snoot. Then if it works set up a more permanent fix. Nice videos very well done.
Did you ever figure out the garage door problem? I actually had a similar issue today when the sun was going down it was shining right in to the garage door sensor causing it to think it was blocked by something.
I wouldn't trade my Barrinas for nothing. I've done 3 rooms so far and will probably do a carport in the near future. Everybody who sees them wants to know if i'll hire out.
Curious how these lights have held up? I bought a similar set and installed them 9/2020 and all of them started flickering or had sections go out within 2 years. The company replaced them once already and out of the 10 I have only 4 of the replacements are still working.
I have a 170 sq feet shed (17’ by 10’) where I installed six 8 feet Barrina lights. I installed them in three runs, so basically there is three separate runs of lights where each run consists of two lights connected and touching (where it looks like one long 16 ft light). So I have the runs positions where there is one in the middle, running down the ridge of the rooftop, and then about 2 feet out from each side of that is another run on each side. Is it possible a different configuration of light spacing would provide more consistent lighting? I am using this building to produce RU-vid videos so lighting is very important for me.
i got these in the 8' lengths. 4 of them light up my 2 car garage really well. they don't interfere with my garage door while they are on. i placed mine in a box pattern so they wouldn't be near the garage door unit. don't know if that makes a difference or not
Great vid, very clear install guide and explanation. My garage is about the same size as yours, but I think I'm going to install just 6 X 4ft lights so I don't get fried every time I turn the lights on. Did you figure out the issue with the garage opener? Just curious in case that happens to me too. Thanks!
Thanks! I've been lazy fixing that problem although I have 2 suggestions that I hopefully will try soon. Run the antenna wire to the front of the garage or use a farad clamp of the power cable of the garage door opener to help with the magnetic interference I have created.
Great video. Looks like your garage is about 20'(w)x 20-ish(d). Mine is 17x25 so I was about to order a 10 pack of the 8 footers figuring I'd have a couple of spares for failures. I then read a chart from Barina and for a 20x20 garage, they recommend 3 x 8ft or 6 x 4ft. You have 2.5 times as many lights as they recommend!! Now that this is 7 months later, are the lights too bright or are you still good? Trying to decide how many to get now. I will definitely break them up across 2 switches though.
Thanks! Yep the garage is 22' x 22'. I think what you are going to order would be fine. I will say at first it was a lot of light and took some getting used to. That being said I am kinda of nut for going overboard and I love that crazy amount of light I have now. It makes it so easy to see at night and even really helps during the day. I would say follow barina's guidelines and then add more later if you would like.
@@ThatTechTeacher427 oh they allow the video to stay up now with copywriter issues. Must be hard to have a channel with all the rules. Thanks for your videos.
@@ThatTechTeacher427 What about with slow motion on an iPhone? If they don't flicker when you recoded in slow motion that would give me a lot of insight about how they are made. It would be they are a super good deal. Most lights of this kind just run straight off mains so that would make them flicker.
I have not got around to it honestly but will eventually. I never try to close the garage door with a remote with the lights on so it has not been a big enough issue for me to do something about. I am curious about your idea though.
@@ThatTechTeacher427 I am a master electrician and also work on Fire Alarm systems some. We use ferrite magnets and wrap the wire thru the magnet a few times to stop interference. May work. Am getting my garage ready to put up new Barrina lights.
Thats interesting. When I did the "wiring" I cut it open and there was three wire, hot, neutral, and ground. It was designed to be plugged in to a 3 prong outlet.
@@ThatTechTeacher427 Thanks for the reply What's weird is the pigtail has all 3 wires but power/switch and connecting cords only have the hot and neutral, so just just ran then without the ground, it all works Thank you for your video
Hmm, sounds like those cheap Chinese lights don't have an FCC classification on them and the power supply is spewing RF all over the place in the 300 - 400MHz range. Well, you get what you pay for.
Glad I wasn't the only one noticing that. Seems like the audio just dies at multiple points throughout the video, for minutes at a time. It's also completely out of sync at the end for me.
