Looking for high power LED bulbs

(At a reasonable price, that is.) Have a arched roof barn, 35 feet from floor to bottom of rafters. I can reach light fixtures only by standing an extension ladder virtually straight up, and kind of wedging it between a couple rafters. As you can imagine, I don't want to do that very often. So looking into putting very bright LED bulbs in. There are three fixtures installed, the old ones where a 2 quart, widemouth mason jar screws over the bulb and into the fixture. Was installed about 1952 and has been fine.

Now here is the quandary: need something very bright, as am lighting a lot of empty space. Thinking 200 watt equivalent. We had good success with 200 watt conventional bulbs years ago. Last few times I replaced, it was with the biggest CFL bulbs, they have been a great disappointment. So on to LEDS. About the only thing I can find in most stores (home improvement, hardware,) is 100 watt equivalent. Then I tripped over 300 watters at my local ACE hardware at only $40 each. (Seemed a little steep, but If I don't have to replace in my lifetime...) They are FEIT brand, and in talking with my industrial electrician, he says that if I want to replace weekly to monthly, go for it. So I asked his favorite vendor, said GRAINGER. Man, now those guys have precious LED bulbs!

Anyone got a place I can get good, inexpensive, dependable, high performance long lifed LED bulbs?

Cheap led bulbs are not much more reliable than regular bulbs. Made that mistake myself. If you really don't want to replace them as often just spend the money on good ones.

I have used, in a limited fashion, some 6000 lumen 120 volt "corncob" LED bulbs. They come in either regular or mogul base so watch which base you are dealing with. Another thing to watch for is that they are about 14" tall so they will not fit in a jar fixture which is good since LED do not like heat and an enclosed fixture traps heat and shortens lifespan. can be found on the internet for about $90. They are supposed to last 50,000 hours. There is one on the supply house shelf that puts out 12,500 lumens but it costs over $200, I haven't been able to justify buying one of those.

Consumer Reports state that the Fleet is a good brand of LED bulb. However, I would put the quart jar back on because of heat issue will cause them to burn out faster. Just my 2 cents.

I don't know if you will find a LED bulb that will fit that fixture and give you the light you want. I redid the lighting in my building and went from 6- 500 watt halogen fixtures to 6 LED lighting fixtures ( outdoor fixtures) that pulls 31 watts each. My building is only 14 FT and lights would do better if they could be mounted higher but they do the job. The new LEDs are pulling about 125 watts compared to the 3,000 watts that the halogens pulled. I went to LED after having several halogen fixtures explode and drop hot glass on stuff below it.

One thing you might consider Ray, are those extendable poles with either spring loaded clamps or the one's with a suction cups on to change those bulbs. I have both kinds and they both work great. Saves getting up on that ladder and makes it much more comfortable changing them. We have real high ceilings in all of our buildings and even our house and have changed most all the bulbs out to LED and have found that once in a while they go on sale at Menards but I think that it only covers the 100 watt size. You could also use those doubler sockets and put two bulbs in each socket to get more light out of the smaller bulbs Can't remember who makes them but have yet to have one fail.

If you can leave the covers off, which would be a good idea with LED's, you could add some Y splitters, go with 2 100w lamps. They have gotten reasonable, $7 to $10 range.

I still have my eye on that dusty blue ford pickup.
Sure wish I had it. LOL..............

The only reasonably priced high power led bulbs I have seen are 100 watt ones at Sams for $8.00. As everyone has said heat is not good to leds and the higher watt ones have to be built to dissipate heat. The only way to do this cheaply is to add more sockets. At least you should not have to rewire since they consume so much less power

I meant to add Steve@Advance has the most economical solution or something like it.

Maybe four years ago I needed some specialty bulbs for my church. I wanted to try LED in order to cut down on dragging the tall ladder out. The only ones that I could find at that time were direct from China. I ordered a dozen. What a joke. They lasted half the time of incandescents. Buy brand name only.

I got into that too, the Chinese LEDS on Ebay. These were the "corn" lights with the clear round lenses. Didn't last at all!

These were some under counter lights I had put in the kitchen, so I'm stuck with the small diameter lamps.

I've since went back with the same style, still made in China, but they have square yellow LED's. They seem to be doing better, but nothing like the 25,000 hours they claim.

Get the "daylight" bulbs. They seem brighter. Better light.

I would say you need to let them breath. The less heat the better. Go for the most LUMENS you can pay for. That is 100 watts and up. The LED will use like 17 watts with that much light going out. Look up the power chart on the net. Very efficient. Next is the color temperature. Cool white is so so, then Daylight. Daylight is 6000 degrees kelvin. When you flip on the lights you can see everything, just like being in the sunny out of doors! Every little defect, tiny screws, dust, everything can be seen. It will be like you bought a new pair of eyeballs. Cold weather has almost no effect on them. Have fun!!