Light Fixture Layout Collections

[Kyle29A]

Any details on that fan? looks close to what I'm looking for if it goes nice and slow.

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Yep, no problem. I run it on low all the time except for when I'm working in the shed, then high works great for moving the heat off the ceiling. Link is below. Price has gone up a bit since I purchased, it used to be 290.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-De...ng-Fan-with-Remote-Control-YG491-BN/205718225

 

[Sparkynutz]

Yep, no problem. I run it on low all the time except for when I'm working in the shed, then high works great for moving the heat off the ceiling. Link is below. Price has gone up a bit since I purchased, it used to be 290.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-De...ng-Fan-with-Remote-Control-YG491-BN/205718225

I looked up details on that fan and it's amazing! Almost perfect and the black version is way cheaper. The bad news is I didnt realize blades were that big. I have 40 inches of clearance from round box for mounting fan to my pull down attic ladder and 46 inches from box to nearest light on opposite side. any chance you could verify exact width of yours or think blades could be trimmed 6" or so?
The other issue is that I have a 9 ft ceiling and it says minimum mounting height 10ft to the blades. I'd be closer to 8ft once mounted. Think it would be an issue? how tall is your ceiling?

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[Kyle29A]

I looked up details on that fan and it's amazing! Almost perfect and the black version is way cheaper. The bad news is I didnt realize blades were that big. I have 40 inches of clearance from round box for mounting fan to my pull down attic ladder and 46 inches from box to nearest light on opposite side. any chance you could verify exact width of yours or think blades could be trimmed 6" or so?
The other issue is that I have a 9 ft ceiling and it says minimum mounting height 10ft to the blades. I'd be closer to 8ft once mounted. Think it would be an issue? how tall is your ceiling?

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It is dead on 84" diameter. I'm sure the blades could be trimmed, but might be tough to get it right so it's balanced. I don't how it would perform on shorter ceilings, mine are 15.5 ft tall.

 

[johnand]

Thanks Platonic Solid!

Just wanted to thank Platonic Solid for his excellent layouts and lighting suggestions. I used his layout for typical garage from: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4832416&postcount=15 and modified it slightly for my 20x25 double. I used 15ea of the recommended Maxlite LSS2XT8USE4803 fixtures and 30ea of the Greentek Energy Systems GT-T8-18W1200 BIXX(5000K) bulbs. I could not be any happier with the results. With a little over 75K lumens, I can finally see in my garage. I should have done this years ago.

 

[Sparkynutz]

Re: Thanks Platonic Solid!

Just wanted to thank Platonic Solid for his excellent layouts and lighting suggestions. [emoji481] I used his layout for typical garage from: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4832416&postcount=15 and modified it slightly for my 20x25 double. I used 15ea of the recommended Maxlite LSS2XT8USE4803 fixtures and 30ea of the Greentek Energy Systems GT-T8-18W1200 BIXX(5000K) bulbs. I could not be any happier with the results. With a little over 75K lumens, I can finally see in my garage. I should have done this years ago.

Holy **** that's a lot of lights! I'm curious what mine will look like with actual lights too instead of the single CFL bulb where my fan will eventually be hung and two portable led flood lights until I finish drywall mud and paint.

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[pbon]

Looks good — 75k lumens in 450SF though 15 lights. I am happy with a little less — 104k rated lumens in 750SF using 20 lights. Much less is fine if you use portable area lighting.

 

[spiG]

Any help setting up a lighting grid for a new shop going up in a few weeks? Shop is going to be 26x30x10 with a 4/12 pitched roof that is going to stay open. Wanting to put two large fans in the center and lighting around the edge just not sure what layout would be best. The garage doors will be 10x8 with a roof pitch follow so when they are open the lighting behind them will be blocked so want decent lighting around the rest of the building to make up for that.

Garage will be used for working on cars, detailing and just overall hanging out when I get kicked out of my house by the wife

Thanks!

 

[Sparkynutz]

What do you think of my layouts. What would you change or which do you like best? just over 25'x25'x9' high with light grey gloss walls and ceiling.
8x 4ft led shop lights ran off 7 lamp holders with built in receptacles with led bulbs in those as well and 3x 4ft led shop lights over workbench for a total of 11x 42 watt 4ft led and 7x 6 watt led bulbs.
The white angled piece is unistrut track on ceiling for moveable hoist so no lights can hang under or too close to that.


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[Sparkynutz]

What do you think of my layouts. What would you change or which do you like best? just over 25'x25'x9' high with light grey gloss walls and ceiling.
8x 4ft led shop lights ran off 7 lamp holders with built in receptacles with led bulbs in those as well and 3x 4ft led shop lights over workbench for a total of 11x 42 watt 4ft led and 7x 6 watt led bulbs.
The white angled piece is unistrut track on ceiling for moveable hoist so no lights can hang under or too close to that.


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Or these. last one would be most simple to hook up but unsure it would be enough light with only 9 of the shop lights used.

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[TTMotorsports]

Putting up my 50x80x16 1/12 building in a few months. Any post # for suggested light layout? Will have a 10x10 office in 1 corner.

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[Obi-Wan]

Platonic Solid, I am going to install 29 Honeywell LED lights in my 30X40X12 pole building. The inside is finished with white steel sides and ceiling. I will be using this as a workshop for my retirement days

I don't want to break the retirement bank, so I bought the Honeywell linkable LED multi-mode 5000 lumen fixtures from SAM's club for $30 each. I attached sketch of the layout with approximate dimensions. Please take a look and comment on the arrangement.

FYI, when I was light shopping a couple years ago, numerous reviewers complained about poor reliability with the Honeywell lights. I decided to buy the similar Lights of America shop lights, also from Sams. I concur with the other reviewers that these lights are wonderful. 4500 lumens, 40W.

Anyway, my shop is also 30x40, with 14' ceilings. I do lots of woodworking and vehicle work in there, and my eyes aren't getting any younger. I used a similar layout to what you suggested, with 5 lights across, but I hung 8 rows instead of 5. I did not hang lights along the edge over workbenches. I measured 117 fc at waist-height in the middle of the room.

You can read a lot of the details over on my MTF post:
https://www.mytractorforum.com/10358970-post96.html

Overall, I think your layout should work well, since you have lower ceilings than I do. I sometimes wish I had more light along the side walls, although I suppose painting the walls white would help that situation (mine are bare wood right now).

I made sure that my lights were positioned so that at least some of them shown down between and to the sides of the overhead doors so that I still get some light when the doors are open. Your layout has all the lights hidden by the doors, which you may regret someday. If I were you, I'd run six rows instead of five so that you could run a row between the doors, one row centered over each car bay, and one row off to the side of each bay so it'll shine beside the vehicle you're working on. You'll never regret adding more lights in your shop.

Another thing I did that I love was to configure just four of the lights (one in each quadrant of the shop) on a separate switch from the other lights. If I just need to run in and get something, I don't need to light the room up bright as day.

 

[Rickochet]

FYI, when I was light shopping a couple years ago, numerous reviewers complained about poor reliability with the Honeywell lights. I decided to buy the similar Lights of America shop lights, also from Sams. I concur with the other reviewers that these lights are wonderful. 4500 lumens, 40W.

Anyway, my shop is also 30x40, with 14' ceilings. I do lots of woodworking and vehicle work in there, and my eyes aren't getting any younger. I used a similar layout to what you suggested, with 5 lights across, but I hung 8 rows instead of 5. I did not hang lights along the edge over workbenches. I measured 117 fc at waist-height in the middle of the room.

You can read a lot of the details over on my MTF post:
https://www.mytractorforum.com/10358970-post96.html

Overall, I think your layout should work well, since you have lower ceilings than I do. I sometimes wish I had more light along the side walls, although I suppose painting the walls white would help that situation (mine are bare wood right now).

I made sure that my lights were positioned so that at least some of them shown down between and to the sides of the overhead doors so that I still get some light when the doors are open. Your layout has all the lights hidden by the doors, which you may regret someday. If I were you, I'd run six rows instead of five so that you could run a row between the doors, one row centered over each car bay, and one row off to the side of each bay so it'll shine beside the vehicle you're working on. You'll never regret adding more lights in your shop.

Another thing I did that I love was to configure just four of the lights (one in each quadrant of the shop) on a separate switch from the other lights. If I just need to run in and get something, I don't need to light the room up bright as day.

Thanks for the reply. I have 21 of the 29 lights installed so far and the lighting is amazing compared to what I've been used to seeing in other shops! I bought several extra lights just in case of issues with these units. I will post pictures when I have the project completed.

 

[notdavidspade]

I went with 40 of the recommended Max-light fixtures and got a great deal and really fast shipping from Conservationmart.com and working on wiring/layout now. Basically I'm going to go around the perimeter and then up between each bay. Anyone have thoughts on how far to space lights on the same row? Connecting them end to end vs. having a foot or two between them? I'm thinking spreading them out would be better and use the lamps more efficiently but I'm on the fence on how far to spread them out. I've drawn it up with 1ft. spacing, so 6 lamps to a row... thinking about upping the spacing to only have 5 lamps in a row. I'm dealing with 10 to 12 ft. ceilings and maxlite 2200 Lumen bulbs.

 

[Low277]

I am fairly new to this site, I am a Master Electrician and discovered that Platonic Solid is helping people with lighting layouts.

Wanted to commend him for helping people, there is some work involved to this and the quality of the responses he is giving are excellent!!

Give credit where credit is due!!!

 

[djones5548]

Hello all,

I have read this thread and others numerous times over the last couple of years and am finally getting ready to start my lighting project. I would have loved to just steal someone's design but mine is a little different than any I've seen. I'd really appreciate any help and direction.

I have a three car tandem with 9 foot ceilings and textured painted walls. The tandem portion is used as a work space/gym. I have wall mounted cabinets that hang about a foot off the wall along the front wall. I want good light in that area because I work on my tool box there a lot which is also positioned across the top wall. I also want really good lighting in the two car portion because I do my own vehicle maintenance and auto detailing in that area. I would like to be able to have strong lighting on either side of the two car portion. I was thinking something similar to what I've seen on here with pretty much perimeter lighting and boxing in the two car portion using either one or two bulb 4' led strips. I am going to need to do electrical so I am completely open to any fixture and configuration, I just want great lighting. Again, I would greatly appreciate any input!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TsxsaiPNhI_huwX259IwZ5CEXhN9Hhsb/view?usp=sharing

 

[BVG]

Hi djones

I came up with this layout for my standard 2 bay garage (6.43 x 5.88 m and a low ceiling of approx. 2.15 m (7 ft). Most of the time there will be 2 cars parked. Also boxing in the cars. And a row along the workbenches.

I will be using 4ft fixtures with 2 Philips LEDTubes 2100 Lumen / 4200 Lumen per fixture. The orange fixtures in the picture are existing single fixtures I will also put a LEDTube in, which will give a little extra light at the workbenches. The garage door mechanisms are in the way on the right (black rows on the plan).

Still undecided though, maybe an extra row in the middle?

I hope an expert will chime in to shed some light if this works.

With an extra row in the middle:

 

[pbon]

I’d skip the extra row in the middle. Maybe do 4 lights end to end down the middle instead. Or even 4 end to end in all 3 rows and across the back. Easier to wire as well — wire through the light bodies.

 

[thoyer]

Any suggestions for my new building? 4 post lift, 2 post lift plus work area

Thanks!

 

[Fisherguy]

Looking for lighting layout help on my shop @Platonic Solid. Thank you in advance for the help!

Shed is 28 x 48 with a 15.5 ft ceiling with a mezz per the attached PDF dimensions. Floor to bottom of Mezz is about 7.5 ft.

Will be mostly used for mild fabrication, tig welding, detailing, and some auto restoration/ customizing. Would like to have in the 80 - 100fc range for lighting. (Existing lighting will be on a motion detector so only used for quick in and out's of the shop.

Would like to run either of the 2 lights copied below for most of the space and looking for recommendations for under mezz lighting for workbench/ fabrication area.

Please advise on what layout/ recommendations would be ideal.

https://greenlightdepot.com/collect...0w-with-lens-and-w-o-lens?variant=36041819012

https://greenlightdepot.com/collect...5w-with-lens-and-w-o-lens?variant=40725028676

Those high bays are meant for high ceilings, you would not want to use them under your mezzanine. I'm using the lower power ones you posted in my shop with 12'9" ceilings, going to use some kind of 4 ft fixtures under my mezzanine which will be about 8 ft. Not sure what type yet, people seem to like the Costco ones though.

 

[sambo0012]

I thought I would give a quick update to this thread. I took the advice of Plantonic Solid and purchased 7 4ft fixtures from PROLighting.com. The fixtures and bulbs are listed on the first post of this thread. I am very happy with how it all turned out. Lots of light. Very well made fixture. Below are links to what I purchased. I would highly recommend this combination.

Maxlite 48" 2 Lamp LED Ready Utility Strip 120-277V

GLL 48" 18W LED T8 - 2,605 Lumens - Direct Wire Single End or Opposing End or Ballast Compatible - 5000K - 120-277V

 

[mbushnell]

Hi all,
I have a 3 car attached garage that I would like to finish off. It is 30' wide x 24' deep with 12' ceilings. The ceiling is bare sheetrock & uninsulated. The walls adjoining the living quarters are insulated & bare sheetrock. The exterior walls are currently uninsulated & open to studs. The floor is currently bare concrete. There are 2 garage doors, 1 16' x 8' high & 1 8' x 8' high. There are 2 man doors, 1 exterior towards the rear of the side wall of the 1 car bay, and 1 into the house, centered on the back wall. I am starting from pretty much a clean slate. The current lighting is 2 bare bulb ceiling fixtures, one centered in the 1 car bay & 1 centered in the 2 car bay.
I'd like to get get started with finishing off the garage & would like some help with the lighting plan for this garage. I will be insulating & putting up sheetrock on the walls that are not currently done & insulating the ceiling. The ceiling and upper sidewall will be painted white, the lower walls might be a different color. The garage will be coated, probably in grey.
The 2 bay side is for parking of my vehicles, the 1 bay side will probably have a workbench on the rear wall & storage of yard equipment / snow blower. Probably additional storage cabinets of some sort will also be in the 1 car bay.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Mark

 

[Fisherguy]

I did some clicking around this site trying to figure how to light my shop, lotsa good info on here if you loook for it.

Lotsa people use this tool and I did too:
http://www.visual-3d.com/tools/inter....aspx?id=14782

Input your dimensions, how much light you figure you're going to need and pick your fixtures, it'll tell you how many you need and where to put them.

I'm using these high bay lights (work in progress):
https://greenlightdepot.com/collecti...nt=36041819012

They're not listed in the drop down options of the design tool so I used "Lithonia Lighting IBH 15000LM SD080 MD OZ10 50K 80CRI" as the equivalent.

My shop is almost finished, will post some pics in a few days when it's done.

 

[CraigNB]

Hello everyone! I need some help with choosing lighting for my garage, I'm hoping Platonic Solid and others can help.

My garage is 24ftx24ft with 10ft ceilings. It has built in shelving that extends all the way down one of the walls so the lighting doesn't really matter on that side (if you are looking out the garage door it is the left side). The primary purpose of the garage will be for my part time detailing business, so lighting is very important. After some research I have found that 5000K is the best color for detailing. That's about all I know, I need help deciding on fixtures, how many fixtures, fixture spacing etc.

Thank you!

 

[mbushnell]

Lotsa people use this tool and I did too:
http://www.visual-3d.com/tools/inter....aspx?id=14782

The problem with that software is that it is a Windows only product & "I don't do Windowz".
I am on the Mac platform (& have been an Apple user ever since my Apple //e in the mid 1980's)
Mark

 

[Fisherguy]

The problem with that software is that it is a Windows only product & "I don't do Windowz".
I am on the Mac platform (& have been an Apple user ever since my Apple //e in the mid 1980's)
Mark

Isn't there some kinda software that allows you to run windows programs on your mac?
Surely someone you know has a normal computer!

 

[mbushnell]

Isn't there some kinda software that allows you to run windows programs on your mac?
Surely someone you know has a normal computer!

Yea, I will have to unbox my dad's old PC. It's been sitting in a moving box since last June, when I moved from NJ to CO.

 

[flash_e_gt]

These posts are AMAZINGLY HELPFUL.

 

[lmleser]

Re: Thanks Platonic Solid!

Just wanted to thank Platonic Solid for his excellent layouts and lighting suggestions. I used his layout for typical garage and modified it slightly for my 20x25 double. I used 15ea of the recommended Maxlite LSS2XT8USE4803 fixtures and 30ea of the Greentek Energy Systems GT-T8-18W1200 BIXX(5000K) bulbs. I could not be any happier with the results. With a little over 75K lumens, I can finally see in my garage. I should have done this years ago.
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Like those garage door openers. Any issues or concerns or feedback?

 

[BentBierz]

Curious how anyone has handled lighting for a building like the attached picture. My steel building is 30' x 50' x 12' and will have ridge vents put in shortly. I am removing the originally installed ceiling insulation and will have closed cell foam sprayed on the ceiling/walls. Each of the purlins on the slopes are approx. 5' apart. My issue is how to handle the center of the building. If I just put lights (going to most likely use 2 bulb Maxlite LSS2XT8USE4803 fixtures...maybe 3 bulb) attached flush to the two port and starboard purlins I would have a span of about 10' across in the middle with no lights for the length of the building. If I put lights in the middle I will probably have to suspend them to keep them from interfering with the vents adding to the complexity of the install.

I am going to use this building primarily as a wood shop with a big sliding table saw in the middle of the back half and other tools spread out around the perimeter.

Any recommendations or past experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Toomanytools?]

Just do a "V" shape wire 2 legs on the left or port side and 2 on the right. Then the fixture should hang in the center.

 

[MeentSS02]

Light Fixture Layout Collections (MeentSS02)

Full details are located here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410914

Garage Layout

3-car, approximately 30' x 22' with 9'3" ceilings. The diagram below shows the location of the 3 original fluorescent fixtures I replaced:

Lights

Fixtures: MaxLite LSS2XT8USE4803 (Qty. 20)
Bulbs: GLLUSA GL07103-2M (4,000K) LED (Qty. 40)

Wiring/Electrical

Each row of five is independently switched. Rows 1, 3, and 4 are on a separate dedicated 15-amp circuit run with 14-2 NM-B, and are switched by the work bench. Row 2 is for day-to-day lighting, and is on a pre-existing 15-amp lighting circuit switched inside the house.

Mounting

Each fixture is mounted with two 3/16" x 2" toggle bolt anchors.

Layout and Lighting Calculations

I used DIALux Evo software to help me lay out the lights and calculate the light output. The results of the final configuration are here (fc @ 30" working height):

Results

I used a DSLR camera with the exact same settings for each picture to show the differences when turning on additional rows of lights. The settings for the camera are as follows:

Camera: Canon 50D (Manual Mode)
Lens: EF-S 10-22mm (Wide Angle)
ISO: 100
F-stop: f/22
Exposure: 0.5 second

The picture with all lights on is properly exposed, and the rest ended up underexposed to show the true difference. In reality, even just one row is plenty bright for day-to-day tasks in the garage.

 

[Crackerballer]

So which flush mount LED fixtures do you all love right now? My water heater crapped out and was located on the second floor of our house. Luckily, it was primarily over the garage and didn't do a ton of damage overall. The damage it did do was to my garage ceiling. So right now I have exposed beams and insulation pulled, which means LIGHTING UPGRADE!

The garage is a oversized 2-car. I have the exact dimensions at home, but on 1 switch it had 2 48" florescent lights that were not nearly enough. They were on the front half of the garage (where the front of the cars are oriented) and there is nothing on the back half. There is a massive steel beam going through the middle and it hangs lower than the rest of the garage.

I am thinking x4 48" flush mount LED tube lights over the car-front half, with a 5th extending over the area where my toolbox is currently. Then 2 48" flush mounts on the car-back half, with a 3rd over another side area where I have a fridge and such.

Ceilings I believe are a little over 11' high, maybe 12'. I'll get full info tonight.

 

[Crackerballer]

double tap

 

[Toomanytools?]

double tap

Check out these, several wattage and lumen outputs to choose, don't think the tubes are dimmable.
https://www.prolighting.com/commercial-lighting/ledtroffers1/l4243ssubxx00p0-5k.html

 

[Crackerballer]

Check out these, several wattage and lumen outputs to choose, don't think the tubes are dimmable.
https://www.prolighting.com/commercial-lighting/ledtroffers1/l4243ssubxx00p0-5k.html

Thanks. I don't think that will mount recessed though. I don't have 24" between supports I don't think.

 

[pbon]

You could do 1x4 flat panel LED. I considered doing them surface mounted in frames but the cost was higher. You could also just run wiring while the ceiling is open and use standard tube or wrap lighting.

 

[Mr. Demeanor]

Any input on my layout. I also started a thread with the info. Ceiling will remain open.
Could also use some input on fixture size.

 

[Jacack]

Read a lot of the posts from the beginning and think I know what I need for lighting but wanted to post up my plan.

I have 40x60 metal bldg with white insulation walls and ceiling.18ft walls 3 12x14 doors on the 60ft side.

Shop will be used mostly for storage of boats cars and motorcycles, one bay will have 4post lift and will see more mechanic work but nothing more than hobby stuff on occasion.

Plan was to just put 4 of

.greenledzone.com/2-pack-29-250-lumens-4ft-led-linear-high-bay-225w-0-10v-dimming-5000k-ip54-ul-and-dlc-premium-replaces-8-lamp-f54t5/



Centered down the bays so a total of 12 fixtures.

After reading on her I am not sure of my plan. Am I on the right track? Or need more of less fixtures.




Thanks
Jared

After fighting with the county forever my shop is up and getting power run shortly, I posted a while back ( see above)

Hoping someone with a shop of similar size and comment on my plan

 

[Fisherguy]

After fighting with the county forever my shop is up and getting power run shortly, I posted a while back ( see above)

Hoping someone with a shop of similar size and comment on my plan

I posted thuis link earlier for a design tool, did you try it?
http://www.visual-3d.com/tools/interior/default.aspx?id=14782

Those are pretty expensive lights, I used thes in my smaller sdhop and it worked out well:
https://greenlightdepot.com/collections/led-linear-high-bays/products/lhb-110w-with-lens-and-w-o-lens?variant=36041819012

You'd probly wanna look into these ones:
https://greenlightdepot.com/collections/led-linear-high-bays/products/2ft-led-linear-high-bay-160w-ul-dlc?variant=42968076292

Lots to choose from:
https://greenlightdepot.com/collections/led-linear-high-bays

 

[BentBierz]

Any input on my layout. I also started a thread with the info. Ceiling will remain open.
Could also use some input on fixture size.

Sorry...no input on layout but that looks like it is going to be a sweet building!