ceiling lights

[keith quale]

How many fixtures for ceiling would you suggest for 40 x 60 garage with 14ft.ceilings.What kind and what wattage? TY

 

[Steevo]

Are the walls and ceiling finished and painted?

 

[keith quale]

No they are not insulated or sheet rocked yet. just finished framing.KQ

 

[rburke65]

I have read one watt per square foot as pretty good start. Thinking 15 eight foot 4 lamp T-8 fixtures. It will also depends on your usage. If your doing surgery you might want to increase the number of fixtures. You will get lots of opinions on here.

 

[keith quale]

Thanks rburke65 i will check into that Surgery, now that was funny lol

 

[Steven Rothschild]

To light your garage, you need six 6 lamp T5HO luminaires which will achieve 57 footcandles. This will be a little brighter than your average Walmart. If you want to take it up so it's a workable place for cars, you can make it brighter by using eight 6 lamp T5HOs which will achieve 77 footcandles. This will be about as bright as a Lexus service bay. Here is the fixture I believe would work best: https://www.accessfixtures.com/6-Lamp-T5-High-Bay-Fixtures-p/af66-6-t5ho.htm

Good luck with your project! Take care.

 

[Plow Man]

To light your garage, you need six 6 lamp T5HO luminaires which will achieve 57 footcandles. This will be a little brighter than your average Walmart. If you want to take it up so it's a workable place for cars, you can make it brighter by using eight 6 lamp T5HOs which will achieve 77 footcandles. This will be about as bright as a Lexus service bay. Here is the fixture I believe would work best: https://www.accessfixtures.com/6-Lamp-T5-High-Bay-Fixtures-p/af66-6-t5ho.htm

Good luck with your project! Take care.

Steve I have a garage with 15' cieling and walls painted white and a white metal cieling. It is 30 wide and 40 deep. It has 10 , 8' fixtures that are 20 years old. They are placed in 2 rows of 5 from front to back.
What would be the best fixtures to replace all of them and where would you mount them? I have a couple of T5 at work and they are brite !!
Thanks
Matt

 

[keith quale]

Thanks for all the info guys, appreciated

 

[gnxtc2]

Choose wisely on the T5HO fixture. Look at the cost of a ballast if you need to replace it.

Billy T.
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[Justanoldguy]

Thanks rburke65 i will check into that Surgery, now that was funny lol

Yeah ..

the depends on tour usage

. was funny too.