Lighting design

[Bangon61]

So I have some Lithonia 4 ft LED strip lights and wondering if anyone has any good ideas for lighting design for an area of 15 feet by 23 feet with an 8 foot ceiling. The narrow area(15 feet) is where the garage door is mounted. The LEDs are 5000 lumens at 5000 K. Always like to hear what others have done. See pic

 

[DuluthMachineWorks]

I don’t have any designs, but I do have a tip.

I did all my lighting layout in DIALux- it’s a free lighting design software package here. It made it really easy to experiment with different lighting layouts and come up with graphics showing the light intensity for various layouts. The learning curve isn’t too bad and totally worth it in the end to get my lighting layout to work with the ceiling obstructions in my shop.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Lithonia has a layout tool on their website, you can plug in the fixture type and room dimensions and it tells you what to do. Go here: https://www.acuitybrands.com/resources/technical-resources/visual-lighting-software then scroll down about mid-page to the visual design tools section.

 

[doctorcliff]

My shop is 24x32 with 10' ceiling. It's very well lit with (40) 4' LEDs in old 'schoolhouse' fluorescent fixtures. There's plenty of light, even for my old eyes.