Show off your garage/shop lighting

HeloMech · Apr 29, 2013

Show off your garage lighting with a description. So many lighting questions coming up all the time and what not. Everyone has a better idea than the next guy, so they think. Let's keep the debates down to a minimum.

regguy1 · Apr 29, 2013

26' x 30' / 20 48" 2 tube T8s with plastic diffusor / 6500K Tubes
See photo below and videos of inside here:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140674

(finished interior video made with digital camera, it looks a bit dark in the video but it's really quite bright in there)

Steevo · Apr 29, 2013

24x40x12'H
17ea. Lowes 4x4' T8 fixtures with 4100k 32w 2850 lumens tubes.
14 fixtures are on three main switches, two over bench and one over lathe on separate switches.

+/- 200 lumens per square foot.

LX-Markham · Apr 29, 2013

I'm liking this thread already. Need more ideas for my lighting plan.
What's a good lumens/sq.ft.?

Steevo · Apr 29, 2013

LX-Markham said:
What's a good lumens/sq.ft.?

"Good" is 125 or so.
"Close work lighting" calls for 150 or better.

jdaallen · Apr 30, 2013

High dollar lighting I salvaged from a downtown Denver office building for my garage.

safexcrane · Apr 30, 2013

Its great idea to share idea over here. Got some useful links also.. Thanks for sharing..

LX-Markham · Apr 30, 2013

jdaallen said:
High dollar lighting I salvaged from a downtown Denver office building for my garage.

^^^this is a work of art!
love how you have the garage door tracks hugging the ceiling,
and those lights are sleek!

jdaallen · May 3, 2013

LX-Markham said:
^^^this is a work of art!
love how you have the garage door tracks hugging the ceiling,
and those lights are sleek!

Thanks. We were doing an interior demo and I just couldn't trash these lights and so I found a good home for them. I found out later that these fixtures are around $1100 to $1500 per 8 footer new. :thumbup:

jlckmj · May 3, 2013

here is mine using 10 - 105W CFL (400 watt equivalents)

Jim

SmokeyBC · May 4, 2013

Jim, are those plywood sections on you wall sound baffles?

If they are, how effective are they?

thanks

jlckmj · May 4, 2013

Smokey,

No, those are the beginning of my soffit cabinets. (link below)

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=198872

Jim

thatcher · May 6, 2013

I just use the cheap hanging shop lights then modify them. i have a little 11/15 shed though and only need 4 of these. http://www.thatcherworks.blogspot.com/2013/05/wine-bottle-bottom-light.html

backld · Jan 2, 2014

What did you use for the ceiling? I like that wood look.

paranoid56 · Jan 3, 2014

it looks like wood flooring.

460Rustang · Jan 3, 2014

As with most threads here,...I'm totally envious.

Blk88GT · Jan 3, 2014

I can't get the whole place in a single shot so this will have to do.

160 x 4100k lamps, 40 8ft tandem fixtures.

aka Larry · Jan 3, 2014

(10) 8'-0" long T8 fixtures with (4) 6500K tubes each:

ripper70 · Jan 4, 2014

4- 32 ft runs of 8ft t-8s with 4 bulbs. Have them on 2 switcvhes to cut light output in half if not needed. :3gears:

Ch3No2 · Jan 5, 2014

15 4 tube double ballast fixtures on 4 switches provides up to 180+ lumens sq ft
It is actually brighter than it looks due to camera compensation

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