Shop lighting LED to replace fluorescent

[BC38]

Since this old thread had already been started I didn't see any need to start a new one.
In my reloading shop I have 3 banks of 2-4ft fluorescent fixtures. For various reasons I am looking at a conversion over to LED but I keep seeing warnings about EMI from the LED's effecting other electronic devices. I am particularly concerned with the LED/EMI effecting my electronic scales. Out in the attached garage would not pose the issue.
Has anyone experienced any ill side effects from converting over to LEDs?

The EMI from an LED is WAY less than the EMI from a fluorescent. Here's a description of how fluorescents work
Fluorescent Lamp and Working Principle of Fluorescent Lamp | Electrical4U

For all practical intents and purposes it's a low-power lightening bolt from one end to another in a special atmosphere (gas) inside the tube, and a transformer (ballast) to drive it. LOTS of EMI there.

In contrast, an LED is just your basic solid-state electronics. Not as much EMI as your LED computer monitor (unlike your old CRT monitor - which created tons of EMI).

 

[BC38]

A doomsdayer buddy told me that LEDs are the way to go until the EMP goes off and fries all solid state electronics. You'll be hoping you saved some of those incandescent and fluorescent fixtures at that point.

Anyway, I really like my LED lights I put in my shop last year.

What your doomsdayer buddy apparently doesn't know is that the same EMP that destroys the electronics in an LED bulb will also destroy the ballast (electronic OR magnetic) in your fluorescent lights.

Incandescent bulbs will survive - as long as they aren't too close to the EMP pulse, but all fluorescents would be toasted just as badly as any LED.

 

[DWalt]

I still have a few fluorescent fixtures I didn't convert to LED, but they are areas of the house I don't use much. In my office there was a 4-tube fluorescent fixture over the desk which is very difficult to get to and I always dreaded having to replace a burned out tube or bad ballast, as you nearly needed to be a contortionist to get to it. That was the first one I converted to LED. There was another fixture in the kitchen which was almost as difficult to get to, and it was the second converted.

 

[glowe]

I had an 8' florescent fixture over my work bench in an unheated garage. I stripped out the ballast and all the wiring and kept the housing and shroud. I then purchased 2 - 4' LEDs and simply mounted them on the existing housing. They work great, double the light output, instant-on even in below freezing conditions. Don't keep track of the actual energy savings, but the much improved performance is all it took to convince me to switch.