All,
I had another thread going a few weeks ago, but with the building almost done, I set about doing some lighting layouts.
Facts:
- The finished space is 32' x 44' x 12' with ribbed white (satin) metal sheeting on walls and ceiling (mounted to scissor trusses).
- Concrete floor.
- The two garage doors are on one of the 32' ends.
- There are three small windows (24") at 8 feet on one 44' side and three larger (4 ft) windows on the other wall.
- Work space will be at opposite end as the garage doors and can be supplemented by extra work area lights.
- This space will be used for weekend warrior type car projects. Racing efforts and restoring / tinkering.
I did check the lighting layout thread but got somewhat lost in there. My plans are inspired by some of them, but If anyone knows of a post to check that's more similar, let me know.
Anyway, based on internet research and what Platonic Solid has said, I believe we should be aiming for around 90 foot candle at 30". I calculated that I'll need around 127,000 lumens to make this possible.
For spacing, one site said that fixtures shouldn't be more than 13.5 feet apart and that I should aim to put the fixtures around 4-7 feet from the sidewalls.
My first question is, does the white ceiling and walls help cut down on the lumens that I'll need from the lights since less is lost?
Next, I spied some 8 foot LED fixtures (Metalux -8400 lumens) at the big box store and used that as a starting point. In the drawings below, that's what's shown. The circle is a 60" ceiling fan (planned). The blue dotted horizontal lines are the trusses.
With 9 lights, it seems I'd have around 76k lumens
With 12 lights, I'm around 100k lumens
Does this seem reasonable / right? I know it's my choice, but I want to do it right the first time...
The electrician thinks I'm absolutely nuts to add that many fixtures. Can anyone help me load this into Dialux (or send me at least the building object layout) so I can play with it?
I had another thread going a few weeks ago, but with the building almost done, I set about doing some lighting layouts.
Facts:
- The finished space is 32' x 44' x 12' with ribbed white (satin) metal sheeting on walls and ceiling (mounted to scissor trusses).
- Concrete floor.
- The two garage doors are on one of the 32' ends.
- There are three small windows (24") at 8 feet on one 44' side and three larger (4 ft) windows on the other wall.
- Work space will be at opposite end as the garage doors and can be supplemented by extra work area lights.
- This space will be used for weekend warrior type car projects. Racing efforts and restoring / tinkering.
I did check the lighting layout thread but got somewhat lost in there. My plans are inspired by some of them, but If anyone knows of a post to check that's more similar, let me know.
Anyway, based on internet research and what Platonic Solid has said, I believe we should be aiming for around 90 foot candle at 30". I calculated that I'll need around 127,000 lumens to make this possible.
For spacing, one site said that fixtures shouldn't be more than 13.5 feet apart and that I should aim to put the fixtures around 4-7 feet from the sidewalls.
My first question is, does the white ceiling and walls help cut down on the lumens that I'll need from the lights since less is lost?
Next, I spied some 8 foot LED fixtures (Metalux -8400 lumens) at the big box store and used that as a starting point. In the drawings below, that's what's shown. The circle is a 60" ceiling fan (planned). The blue dotted horizontal lines are the trusses.
With 9 lights, it seems I'd have around 76k lumens
With 12 lights, I'm around 100k lumens
Does this seem reasonable / right? I know it's my choice, but I want to do it right the first time...
The electrician thinks I'm absolutely nuts to add that many fixtures. Can anyone help me load this into Dialux (or send me at least the building object layout) so I can play with it?
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