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Sorry, that was for 8 of them! Not bad for the light they provide but I'm looking forward to distributing the light more.

What can I say, I do love a good adventure. :D I'm going to dissect the LED lights and see what makes them tick before I hang them. Those CFL bulbs have a surprising amount of power electronics concentrated in the base and I'm hoping the LED strips don't have so much going on. These will hang...

My notes say these from Amazon which cost $112 in 2013: KAEZI 85 Watt Studio Light Bulb 5500K CFL Day Light

I put the big CFL bulbs in my shop in 2013 based on a thread here and I just had one catch fire a few weeks ago. I noticed it was dim one day but didn't think much of it then a few days later I was in the driveway and smelled burning plastic and when I walked into the shop I saw the bulb...

I'm about to pull the trigger on this for temporary heat until I get a heat pump system installed: Dimplex DCH4831L at Amazon Similar to the Profusion but cheaper and no reviewers saying the fan quality is **** or saying the fan is too loud. See here for what I'm talking about: DR988 at Amazon...

That is a cheap light I got at Amazon: Canarm BL14CWS I really wanted to get some nice gooseneck lights from Barn Light Electric for the entry and for above the overhead door but funds were tight so that had to wait. That's not a bad light for the money if you want a more industrial look. The...

Why taller? Unless I get an RV I can't think of anything I would need the height for. I do regret not making it wider but I would've really started digging into the grade to do that. The lift makes it difficult to get a second vehicle in there but it is so worth it. We had our first jeep...

My tiny bachelor pad with 30x50 shop was not so great after my son was born so we looked into building on a few acres but quickly realized it was a buyer's market not a builder's market so we set off to find a house in the city with room for a shop. After a frustrating 2-year search we finally...

I read on an older thread they rebadge these as K-Tool chargers as well: http://www.ktoolinternational.com/KTI/Catalog/ProductBrowser.aspx?catg=3 Not as **** and about the same price but I thought it was interesting. I'm going to order a 126AC straight from Rizk. It has automatic cut-off which...

Has anybody done something like this with success? Will those decorative gable vents allow enough airflow to be worth the effort or does this really call for louver flaps that open when the fan is on? I'm trying to think of a way to allow lots of air to move out of my new shop without making...

While this looks really cool, doesn't it seem like some sub-panels distributed around the house make more sense if you're going to have that many circuits? Also, shouldn't that NM be protected somehow?

A 9000 sq ft house sounds more overkill than a 400A service! The 13k sq ft shop sounds just about right, though :thumbup: I just wanted to chime in with one thought. I just built a 22x30 shop/garage and I'm upgrading my house to a 400A (CL320) service with a 200A panel in the shop. The main...

That's a fairly common way of wiring switches to lights. To save wire, instead of running two sets of romex down to the switch (from breaker and to light) one romex is run to the switch and the black is the hot from the breaker and the white is the switched hot back to the light. The white...

I saw something today that I have to post on this thread. See attached pic. It might not be very clear (taken from afar with a phone then cropped) but inside that sign are 6 rows of 4 giant CFL bulbs! They look at least as big as the 105W's in this thread. Is this common? It surprised me.

At this point I am thinking of using 8 of the 85 watters for my 22x30x12

Veno, Yes, these are the ones I am referring to: LimoStudio bulb Is 6500K too blue? There were some blueish U shape bulbs in my house when I moved in and I had to get rid of them because they were just too harsh. Maybe in a workshop it wouldn't be such a bad thing? Edit: After reading a...

Is everybody still happy with their CFL setups? I'm about to order lighting for my 22x30 that's going up next week and I'm stuck between 8' tubes or the 105W CFL's. The reflectors are cheap now, $106 shipped for 10 of them from here...