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Garage Lighting, Garage Demo - Looking for direction |
ctc911ctc |
Feb 6 2019, 10:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 893 Joined: 9-June 18 From: boston Member No.: 22,206 Region Association: North East States |
All Teeners,
I did a search within this list not sure this was covered previously. I am going to demo my garage interior. install lighting, electric, heated floor, the whole deal. My question is what is the direction to go as to the in ceiling lighting? Fluorescent is the path I was heading, though LED is getting better, Any experience with _products_ that are working well for the people in this forum? Thanks! CTC911CTC |
davehg |
Feb 6 2019, 03:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 185 Joined: 19-September 17 From: PNW Member No.: 21,443 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I bought a number of LED shop lights (rectangular) at Costco - they regularly go on sale for $25. You can daisy chain 1-2 of them, and they throw excellent light. I've got 10 of them now and am quite happy at the cost/performance ratio. They are mounted on the ceiling of my shop area which is about 9" high
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i.imgur.com-21443-1549487690.1.jpg) I have two large adjoining garage bays 30 feet deep with 24 foot ceilings that I am also looking to light, and I will likely need some LED highbays. I've eyed the "Big Ass Lights" which look to be reasonably powerful but add expense. |
Jamie |
Feb 6 2019, 04:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,033 Joined: 13-October 04 From: Georgetown,KY Member No.: 2,939 Region Association: South East States |
I bought a number of LED shop lights (rectangular) at Costco - they regularly go on sale for $25. You can daisy chain 1-2 of them, and they throw excellent light. I've got 10 of them now and am quite happy at the cost/performance ratio. They are mounted on the ceiling of my shop area which is about 9" high (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i.imgur.com-21443-1549487690.1.jpg) I have two large adjoining garage bays 30 feet deep with 24 foot ceilings that I am also looking to light, and I will likely need some LED highbays. I've eyed the "Big Ass Lights" which look to be reasonably powerful but add expense. I bought a Big Ass Haiku shop light 2 yrs. ago for the garage/shop, liked it so well I bought another for the woodturning shop area. With 12' ceilings it's like daylight in there now, only bad thing is they show every speck of dirt or cobwebs! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) |
tmessenger |
Feb 6 2019, 05:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 6-December 18 From: Iowa Member No.: 22,707 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
I've been a mechanical engineer for the commercial building industry for many years so have been designing lighting systems up through first magnetic then electronic ballast fluorescent, then LED's.
IMO there is no comparison LED shop fixtures are directional so do not lose lumens in the fixture housing like fluorescents. Much more efficient with more true foot candles on the workspace. Also just better light quality, you can get LED's in a wide range of kalvin temperatures so if you want to emulate incandescent bulbs get 3000 kalvin or if you want to emulate daylighting get 5000 kalvin. 10 years ago LED's were very spendy now you can get 4' LED shop light a Menards for $17.00 Tim |
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