Recent content by Ccamp12

That's what I did for my install. You can daisy chain these together and have one outlet at the end of each run.

Agreed, each one of my lights was $38 and they each put out "3000" lumens. They definitely are bright! Instant on, no humming.

i I installed 24x 4' Commercial Electric LED shop lights from Home Depot in my 3 car garage. A consistent 1,800lux at waist level throughout. These are the way to go over fluorescent. A little more up front cost, but all of the benefits of LEDs.

It was a reputable home inspector who had been an electrician for 20+ years who installed it, I would imagine he would have mentioned a code violation or refused the work? The cords are going through drywall grommets, and are plugged into outlets in the attic.

This year really caught up with me... Finally hung the rest of the lights about 3 weeks ago and had an electrician friend wire outlets in the attic and I ran the plugs through drywall grommets so I can unplug and take them with me if I ever move. The 4 lights on the single bay aren't wired...

Well, goes to show the accuracy of the lux meter iPhone app...it was reading around 300 lux. Bought a proper lux meter on Amazon and with half of the lights I'm already at 1,100+ lux at 3-4' from the ground [emoji15] NOT that I'm complaining in the least, I absolutely love this light.

I get now the hooded vs non part and honestly in person it isn't very shadowy on the ceiling. I suppose this is partly because the walls and ceiling are all white. The lumens per square foot myth is also just for paper specs, I agree completely. I took some measurements last night with...

Made some progress this weekend finally. The three rows perpendicular to the door are up and just plugged in (not hard wired to switch yet). Two rows parallel to the door aren't finished yet, and I don't have the 4 above the single bay up yet either. 1-2 more evenings and I'll have the rest...

A Started laying out where I actually want my shelves, wall track and workbench/tools to be moved to. Planning on installing them on the 25th.

That makes sense. Thanks a lot Platonic!!

Platonic, I certainly do not mean to disregard your comments or experience. I understand why that would be absolutely necessary in a commercial environment so they do not over or under light offices or warehouses. For garage use though I'm just going with the lumens per square foot.. I had...

Commendatore - Good to know! Now I wonder if I should just go ahead and revise my plan to spread these over the whole garage evenly... I can't imagine I would be doing much of any work on the 1 stall side, but just for consistency I wonder if it would look better.

I appreciate the input Chevy-SS! I had two in my last garage and it worked okay, both right at the door. But one circuit may not be a bad idea I hadn't even really thought about it. These lights daisy chain together and say only 9 can be linked that way. Is this going to be an issue if I...

I need to pick up the last one when it comes in, they shipped the wrong quantity to the story but didn't specify when they called. Ha it won't be ALL that dark in the 1-stall. The 125W (equiv.) LED is pretty bright on its own. It's already up there, along with 2 not-so-bright 100W eq. CFL...

Wife and I just moved into our new house and I am preparing to setup the garage lighting. My last garage was a 2 stall with brown panel walls, with 6x 4' 4-bulb T8 fixtures for a total of 115lm/ft2. The new garage is a 3 car, approximately 800sq.ft but I'm only going to install my lights...