New lights installed

[Kevin54]

I did have the cheap contractors pack of incadescent lighting in the garage and it was never bright even with 14 of them. Lowes had 4' lights on sale along with bulbs on sale, so I picked up a few. I had to add plugs to all of the boxes but what a difference it makes. I don't really care for the cords but I may shorten them up so there is not a huge bundle hanging on top of the lights. All in all for around $200 I don't think I did too bad.

 

[akdiesel]

You got a lot of light in there. Not a bad find at Lowes.

How do you like the fans in your shop?
I don't live in an area that gets hot but air circulation woud be nice for fumes/smoke.

 

[PhantomEB]

Looks good.

I also want fans in my next one seeing how our winters are much shorter and could use the air circulation.

 

[uparms]

I really like the width / spread of the light spacing. Consistant no matter where you are working.

Nice job!

 

[kbs2244]

I like it!
Lights.
White walls and celing.
Air circulation.
All my hot spots.
Nice place.

 

[Kevin54]

How do you like the fans in your shop?

I lke the fans real well. Not fond of the cheap brass look though, but I have had them since I built the garage 7 years ago and they run all of the time. I reverse them for winter to circulate the heat. If you notice the closet to the left in one ppicture, it houses a furnace that is a downdraft furnace. Four registers under the furnace blow out across the floor. So the fans help pull some of that air up and wash it back down the walls. In the summer it makes it noce as the fans are right above the engine bay of a car.

 

[67pete300]

You have so many outlets! Did you have to add them all for the lights? In the walls too. I am jealous of all your electricity...

 

[stioc]

You have so many outlets! Did you have to add them all for the lights? In the walls too. I am jealous of all your electricity...

Me too

 

[Kevin54]

You have so many outlets! Did you have to add them all for the lights? In the walls too. I am jealous of all your electricity...

The lights were originally wired for the basic Contractor pack lights. The kind that have a brass base and use a 60 watt incadescent. I had to change the lights out for outlets seeing that the fluorescents had plugs. I have all of the ceiling lights wired on two circuits. One circuit for the center 6 lights and the other circuit for the outer 6 lights. Wall outlets are broke down on two seperate circuits. 1 1/2 walls on one circuit and the other 1 1/2 walls on another. Everything wire with 12/2 w/g. Most of the time only one or the other bank of lights is on at any time. But yes...as far as outlets, when you're running wire down a wall it only cost another couple of dollars to add another outlet. It just makes for a pain to drywall around everything.

 

[alkemyst]

Awesome...I had one of those type lights dead center with a 24" florescent above part of the workbench. At night it was unusable.

I picked up four 4' two bulb setups and it's so much better.

While ceiling plugs were probably a bit of extra work, they are sort of nice to have. You can always use an extra outlet sometimes and having one overhead in a garage is nice.

When I get a space I can pull a car into I am going to put in overhead power with a loom at each outlet to wrap the cord once prior to plugging in.