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[Rockoz]

Fluoros will do the job. They are cheap.

LEDs if you want but the price tag will be huge for good quality.

Hi Bay lights are the others you are referring to.

You would only just have enough height to utilise them to their best.

They will give you great light on the floor, but as you will only have 1 row you will have shadows.

With fluoros you would probably have several rows of light minimising shadows to a certain extent.

[r2160]

The other choice is (depending on how much time you spend in there) a solar panel, LED lights and batteries. Doing the same thing at home at present. If you are careful, you could light your whole garage for under $1000 including solar panel, batteries, lights etc

 

cheers

Glenn

[yel327]

Fluoros. For the amount of time you use them anything else will be false economy. My shed is 12x7m with 4.2m gutters with mezzanine for one half. I used fluoros under the mezzanine and in the open area fluoros on jack chain with sockets on the roof for them to plug in. Sockets are a simple crimp onto the TPS cable. For work under a vehicle on the hoist I put a GPO on the hoist and use a tube fluoro worklight.

[Rockoz]

Oh. And if you have a drill press or a lathe please put a normal globe near that as a work light.

May save embarassing moments or injuries.

[Pop's-SS]

From an old sparky ....... Flouro's

Cheap to run, less shadows and whiter light

 

Barry

[RallyRed]

agree with Yel & Bazz.......bang for buck, for light output, you cant beat fluros. Old school for sure, but as posted above, they are not on for long periods (typically)so the energy they use is not as critical.
I just finished a 9m x 8m x 3.2m eve shed, with the silver foil roof insulation....only 4 double fluros in there and its lit up
like I cant believe. The secret I believe is the total reflection of the light off the foil....like a dirty big mirror.

As mentioned above, if you plan to have some machining stuff, also consider the stroboscopic effect ( you can google it).

[Ice]

Bright fluros only way to go

[rodomo]

And plenty of clearish roof panels.

[shadey1963]

Installed a few of these in a shed. Like daylight and instantly on. Low cost to run and long life. Outdoor rating is a bit of overkill but it makes it a very robust light.

 

 

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[wot179]

My shed is 9.5x9.5 and I run 12 double flouros...4 rows of three, each row on a separate switch.

 

Silver insulation above and light grey painted floor.

 

Its unreal.

[N/A-PWR]

I run 12 x double fluro's,

 

 in a 24 x 10 x 6 metre high shed ( 1 row of 4, above ),

 

with a 12 x 10 x 2.8 metre high mezzanine floor ( 2 rows of 4, below, and is like day time at night down there ).

 

 

 

p.s. could do with another 4 sets to light more of the higher area's of the workshop.

[jd lj]

I'm just jealous of the sizes of the sheds you guys have. I could get more toys (torana's) if I had that sort of space.

[71Ranger]

Hi,

We run the high bays, but what really helped was painting the walls white to height of 2m.

Cheers Brian

[Pop's-SS]

I doubt if flouros will ever go out of the shops as there are zillions of them out there and besides that, the Chinese will go on making them as long as they are needed

 

Barry

[N/A-PWR]

For the light switching here,

 

I use the Bunnings Remote Control Switch system,

 

 where you plug two sets of Fluro bank's into each of the four GPO outlets ( Maximum ),

 

 so each Set will come on at any touch of 4 buttons on the Remote Pad that you carry around ( so to speak ).

[Rockoz]

Would suggest to those with fluoros that they replace the tubes every year or so.

Fluoros lose significant output after a relatively short period.

Places like K Mart used to replace tubes every 3 months or so to keep light output up.