wingfootedgodhead
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Apologies if this has been covered in another thread
80 x 40 pole barn, trusses spaced 10 foot apart, 18 feet off the deck.
This winter I finished a single run of conduit down the center of the pole barn and installed 100W equivalent CFL's. The conduit is filled with two pairs of 12 gauge plus a ground, one wire pair for the CFL's and one pair for future expansion. It's really a quite nice setup, much neater and cleaner to 'do things right' and run conduit versus romex.
This coming fall, I want to complete the job and install 4' T5HO fixtures with either 4 or 6 lamps each. The very easiest thing for me to do is flush mount the T5HO fixtures off the existing trusses and T off the existing conduit run using the spare wire pair. (figure 1).
Alternatively, I could run a pendant arrangement and orient the T5H0 fixtures parellel to the long axis the machine shed. (figure 2). Would be a lot more work and more materials. Also exposing the fixtures to mechanical damage as I do spend some time above the tusses on one project or another using a scissors lift.
Is there any appreciable difference in lumen distribution at the shop floor between the two T5H0 orientations ? Enough to justify the additional work required to implement orienting the fixtures parallel to the machine shed axis ?
80 x 40 pole barn, trusses spaced 10 foot apart, 18 feet off the deck.
This winter I finished a single run of conduit down the center of the pole barn and installed 100W equivalent CFL's. The conduit is filled with two pairs of 12 gauge plus a ground, one wire pair for the CFL's and one pair for future expansion. It's really a quite nice setup, much neater and cleaner to 'do things right' and run conduit versus romex.
This coming fall, I want to complete the job and install 4' T5HO fixtures with either 4 or 6 lamps each. The very easiest thing for me to do is flush mount the T5HO fixtures off the existing trusses and T off the existing conduit run using the spare wire pair. (figure 1).
Alternatively, I could run a pendant arrangement and orient the T5H0 fixtures parellel to the long axis the machine shed. (figure 2). Would be a lot more work and more materials. Also exposing the fixtures to mechanical damage as I do spend some time above the tusses on one project or another using a scissors lift.
Is there any appreciable difference in lumen distribution at the shop floor between the two T5H0 orientations ? Enough to justify the additional work required to implement orienting the fixtures parallel to the machine shed axis ?
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