Basic Lighting/Electrical Questions

[BrendanS]

Hi guys,

I've searched but couldn't find the answers I'm looking for. This spring I'm looking to add some lighting to my garage as well as a few more outlets. My garage is 19x37 by about 9ft tall. I do a lot of detailing and work on cars in my garage so I would love to have a well-lit garage. I'm thinking of going with these lights from HD:
http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/...hall&recN=0&N=0&Ntk=P_PartNumber#BVRRWidgetID

My question is, if I want to have say 10-11 lights installed what would the basic procedure be? Currently I just have two small incandescent light fixtures in there. What would I need to add to the garage when having more lights installed? Would a seperate fuse box or breaker panel be required when running that much lighting? I have very very basic knowledge about electrical stuff so any help or basic guides would be great. I've attached a pictures of my garage to show how poorly lit it is. Any recommendations would be great!

If it matters I am also going to be repainting the walls (grey bottom, green stripe, and white top) as well as epoxying the floors.


Thanks,
Brendan

 

[tfi racing]

You may not be happy with those lights,I would recommend four rows of two of these instead,parallel to the sides of the cars roughly:
http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/...artial&Ntx=mode+matchall&N=0&Ntk=P_PartNumber

It appears that you may be in BC(ugh,canucks fan...),it is hard to say if you would need another circuit or not(more than likely),depends how the existing lighting circuit was done.I would fish NMD90 through the attic from the existing light locations to where the new ones would go,that would look better than surface mounted conduit in your shop.

 

[BrendanS]

You may not be happy with those lights,I would recommend four rows of two of these instead,parallel to the sides of the cars roughly:
http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/...artial&Ntx=mode+matchall&N=0&Ntk=P_PartNumber

It appears that you may be in BC(ugh,canucks fan...),it is hard to say if you would need another circuit or not(more than likely),depends how the existing lighting circuit was done.I would fish NMD90 through the attic from the existing light locations to where the new ones would go,that would look better than surface mounted conduit in your shop.

haha yeah I'm in Vancouver. I'll take a look at those lights, I just picked the ones I linked because I heard a few good reviews for them. I guess it's best left to an electrician to do the wiring for all the lights then. Thanks for the input.

Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated as well

 

[aqr81]

Here is a link on lighting and a calculator I used HERE

I used T8's from HD and just got them up and running the other day. You can see them HERE

 

[BrendanS]

Here is a link on lighting and a calculator I used HERE

I used T8's from HD and just got them up and running the other day. You can see them HERE

Thanks for the heads up. For some reason I can't get that program to work on my macbook. I'll give it a shot on my PC.