Barrina LED Garage Opener Light Upgrade

Matt, I think the reason why the opener light indicates a 75 watt bulb is because incandescent bulbs larger than 75 watts are very hot and would melt the plastic cover of the opener.

Just installed 4 of the 8 in the pack based on your video. A lot brighter than before. Now I can see what I am doing. I will finish the other 4 tomorrow.

For those of you that are more electrical tech savvy and want more lights you can. I converted my garage into a woodworking shop and installed 6 - 4ft flourescent light fixtures (each with 2 -40W bulbs for 480 watt total which draws 4 amps ). I connected them all in parallel with wiring run in the attic. I ran a dedicated 15 amp circuit to the line side of 20amp /120v coil contactor (approx $18) and the load to the lights. I connected the contactor coil (which draws has <30 watts) to garage door socket. Now if I want to turn the garage lights on, I use the garage door opener keypad. The lights also automatically come on when the garage door is opened and turn off after a time delay of 5 minutes ( or immediately with keypad). I’ll change to LED eventually as the fluorescent bulbs are getting more expensive.

I did this exact same mod to my opener last year, and I really love it. I spaced my lights out a bit more, and then added more controlled by the light switch by the door. It is a truly significant difference going out into my garage now, you can easily see and when pulling your car in on just the ones controlled by the opener, it really helps as our garage is still a bit cluttered. Great Video!

Nicely done! My own garage lighting enhancement was to add a motion-sensing socket adapter to the one switched bulb socket [which I leave on]. To that I added a one-to-five bulb converter [using 5000K LED bulbs]. You get a better light spread with those long LEDs, but the motion-sensing aspect gives me light longer if I linger in the garage [versus the relatively short garage door opener timer]. I used a socket converter like you did for my one switched bulb socket in my basement, and then added Barrina LEDs to every other floor joist. Had to do one just splice. Tremendous upgrade!

I did this about 6 months ago in my garage. Makes a big difference.

Thanks Matt: Your mention of the Socket Adapter (in which I had one sitting in a box for 25 years) will now be used to convert my garage door opener bulb socket to plug in a repurposed lamp socket and cord that I will mount & strap on my garage door opener hangers and point the repurposed light towards my entry way door for MUCH needed extra light. Thanks for you video !

Thank you..... it’s been a while that I was looking to upgrade my lighting in the garage to led’s ... and to attach it to the opener is brilliant... good job

Thank you for this video. You made making this upgrade straightforward and simple. It's made a huge difference. Instead of using a socket to outlet I used a Leviton outlet and bulb socket adapter and put in an LED nightlight bulb to fit in the diffuser housing so it still lights up.

Wow dramatic change and loving the output of the lights very clean install good job keep it up! Now im hoping mg garage on my channel be as bright as your garage.

Fantastic idea. Thank you !!! Going to copy you as well. Looking at 3 lights in a row. Should be super bright. Mine is 75W max.

Thanks, now another project I have to get to. Will repurpose LED light fixture that has been sitting in garage. Thanks for the idea.

Great Video, I added a battery backup to my garage door opener because it didn’t come with one and I don’t have a side entire door, in a power outage the light for the opener is awful and I need more if I have a power outage for hooking up the generator for back feeding.

Great upgrade! Thanks for sharing!

Major change! Great video

Thanks for the idea! I’m going to do this asap!

Great idea. I will look into this as well. You were concerned with the look of linking the 2 lights together, but you used black zip ties instead of white? Also, maybe consider replacing the beige outlet cover with white.

Thank you for this. I was looking for something like this.

Very smart and great video. Thanks for sharing.

i had no idea those socket adapters were a thing, thanks!