Lighting types for my work area?

[altereddezignz]

OK guys if you ahve followed my shop build i am down to the lighting in my screen printing area inside my shop. This area is in its own room so it has its own lighting away from the sho area. So i have already
13 - 4 light 4 ft t8 32 watt fixtures but they have older yellow type color bulbs so they will need to be upgraded.

20 - 2 bulb 4ft t12 fixtures will also need bulbs replaced

30 - 150 equiv watt compact fluorescent bulbs

10 - 300 equiv watt compact fluorescent bulbs.

The room is basically 2 squares.
one square is 28x14 and on the 28 ft wall in the middle is a 18x15 all with 9ft ceiling. Right now the ceilings are a reddish wood walls are called cool blue or a light blue. floors are concrete. No windows.

I listed all the lights b/c this is what i already have..

 

[hdshinn]

I'd go with the T8 fixtures. Do you do color screen printing work? Color temperature is obviously a concern if that's the case. I'm not schooled on the best Kelvin rating for true color artificial lighting but I like the instant on of the T8's over T12's. Plus in my application the T8's seem to have less of a strobe effect (to my eyes anyway) than T12's which is important if you're working with rotating machinery like lathes and such. Probably not an issue in your case.

I have a real problem with the ballasts in my shop lights interfering with FM radio reception but I'm not about to cough up the change to swap them out.

 

[ddawg16]

Wow....that is a lot of lights......

1st Thing I would do....replace the T12's with T8's. Especially if they are older.

Next....what is nice about the number of lights you have....you can mix. No reason you can't have a warm white bulb with a bright white.

I personally prefer the 4000K range. In your case, you could have a mix of all 3 common colors to help with viewing quality.

Side note....they used to film the Reno 911 series at my station....we could always tell when they were coming because they would swap out all the fluroescent tubes (wamr white) with daylight tubes.....slight blueish tint.....

The typical warm white tube causes video to look yellow.

 

[altereddezignz]

Well im not going to use all the lights in the area but thats what i have. I might have an issue with the machinery. I do have a cnc mill, cnc lathe, and cnc torchmate table. They are on the other end of the shop ( 105 x approx 65)