New lighting solutions.

[PALYDIN11]

I have the lights in the first photo. They are 100W. They seemed bright, but I held up an LED light strip to them and saw they are not too bright compared to that. I will eventually replace them. I was looking at the lights in second photo to replace them with. Has anyone had experience with these? My ceiling is white and the top half of my wall are white. The bottom is light gray. I do work on motorcycles in this garage. The distance to the floor is around 11' 8".

 

[pioneer1]

A lot more knowledgeable people will be along soon, but a link with specs to those lights would help.

 

[PALYDIN11]

A lot more knowledgeable people will be along soon, but a link with specs to those lights would help.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Barn-Cei...Tk4LtQadcTHzTWHcM5aEETCznp4Dygn8aAhvzEALw_wcB

 

[mike93lx]

They'll be better, but strip lights will be far better than that. You can get more light and spread it out

 

[bikerneil]

I agree with mike93lx. Take the time to run some extra wiring and then use LED Strip fixtures. Locate them over each "work area" in the garage. You can never have too much light.

LED Fixtures are very efficient, and don't cost much to operate so go for as many fixtures as you think you might need (or more!).

 

[cybrdyke]

PALYDIN- the problem with those lights is that they are too bright from a single location. They'll create lots of contrast and harsh shadows. Not to mention the huge glare. You'll hate them. Funny thing is that they'd be terrible in every application that they have pictured in their ads. Even the picture with the car shows linear lights.
As said by others, get yourself some linear lights that will spread out the light sources. Then, you can use lower powered lights to make a nice even, well lit space.
Good luck,
CD

 

[PALYDIN11]

Guys, thanks for the quick replies. Looks like I am going with the LED strip lights. BTW that is a sharp looking garage bikerneil. I like the drill

 

[PALYDIN11]

PALYDIN- the problem with those lights is that they are too bright from a single location. They'll create lots of contrast and harsh shadows. Not to mention the huge glare. You'll hate them. Funny thing is that they'd be terrible in every application that they have pictured in their ads. Even the picture with the car shows linear lights.
As said by others, get yourself some linear lights that will spread out the light sources. Then, you can use lower powered lights to make a nice even, well lit space.
Good luck,
CD

Thank you.

 

[Dustball]

Found a YouTube video showing a deformable LED in action.

 

[cybrdyke]

Found a YouTube video showing a deformable LED in action.

Thanks for posting that. Interesting outcome.
Generally the corn lamp is considered to be one of the worst performing products in the lighting industry. The deformable lamp couldn't even beat that.
You can see the benefit of having light bounce off the ceiling and walls vs pointing directly down (or even aimed at a slight angle. That ceiling and wall reflectance is so important to a good lighting job that this type of fixture wont ever be effective in a garage environment.
CD

 

[PALYDIN11]

Found a YouTube video showing a deformable LED in action.

Thanks for the video. That does a nice comparison. I would not be happy with the deformable LED lights.