LED shop lights

[WranglerX]

The walls look white to me, white reflects light, I'd like to have my inside shop painted white..

Its a ***** to weld in though as it reflects light into back of helmet...

Dale

 

[Oldpath05]

Its a ***** to weld in though as it reflects light into back of helmet...

Dale

Good point, to over come reflective light one could spend a few extra $$$ to up grade a welding hood, if one had a few extra $$$$.......
3M Speedglas 91??XX FX Adflo Air Fed Welding Helmet

 

[Oaktree]

You wore me out just reading that, no way in this life time will I sheet rock my garage let alone mud on 14' walls, I seriously doubt I'll get enough gumption to get white paint on bare wood, maybe if I was 40 years younger with nothing else to do.

My garage/shop isn't heated, just a woodstove for when I want to work out there in cool/sorta cold weather (takes too long to warm up if it's below 20 out). Sheetrock probably wouldn't stand up to the moisture. White walls/ceiling would be nice, but probably a bear to keep clean.

The rock is up and partially taped. Lousy job done though so it will be a lot of sanding and still won't be a quality finish job. Might pull everything out and have some mud it and I will paint if I can find some poor guy that wants to do it.

It's a workshop, not your living room. Nothing I'd obsess over.

 

[dodge man]

OSB doesn’t work to bad. It doesn’t take paint well but good enough for a shop to make it brighter.

 

[KennyG]

I have a white metal ceiling and unfinished OSB walls and it works pretty well. Mine is fully insulated. If I wanted white walls, I would go metal and not spend the effort to drywall and paint.

 

[grsthegreat]

My shop is now about 2/3 OSB white painted. I really need to finish that one day.

 

[GeneV]

Small sheet of canvas or whatever, thrown over back of your welding helmet, there's your solution to glare.

 

[rangerfredbob]

Anyone notice the new Braun 5500 lumen shop light from Harbor Freight? This one says link up to 8 instead of 4 like the single bulb model... There's a coupon so it's $30 going on til the 30th...

I'm wondering if I should max out a couple coupons and give them a whril, but was hoping someone would have tried them since I can't just go mount them today without electricity in the shop yet...

 

[ruffdog]

I have a white metal ceiling and unfinished OSB walls and it works pretty well. Mine is fully insulated. If I wanted white walls, I would go metal and not spend the effort to drywall and paint.

Neighbor's shop is all white metal and is nice and bright. I never noticed a problem welding over there either.:confused3: He did have a fire one time and thankfully the metal walls are fire resistant so he could put the fire out before any damage. He did have to clean the residue off the walls and ceiling.

 

[ultrarunner]

MDO board works great.

The overlay is paint ready.

 

[grsthegreat]

Anyone notice the new Braun 5500 lumen shop light from Harbor Freight? This one says link up to 8 instead of 4 like the single bulb model... There's a coupon so it's $30 going on til the 30th...

I'm wondering if I should max out a couple coupons and give them a whril, but was hoping someone would have tried them since I can't just go mount them today without electricity in the shop yet...

weird...since Braun makes electric shavers. I guess someone hacked their name

 

[WranglerX]

Good point, to over come reflective light one could spend a few extra $$$ to up grade a welding hood, if one had a few extra $$$$.......
3M Speedglas 91??XX FX Adflo Air Fed Welding Helmet

Better (cheaper) solution is not to buy white paint....

Dale

 

[GeneV]

Dale's favorite song by the stones: paint it black.

 

[Oldpath05]

I pretty much outlawed black on anything in tooling or have to look into,, no black tools, tool boxes or black buckets....

 

[k0ua]

Dale's favorite song by the stones: paint it black.

And a good one too.

 

[ruffdog]

I found this screw in garage LED light review helpful. Many things to consider when buying LEDs.

What LED Light Is Best For Your Garage? Lets Find out! These Are good for Barns and Basements Also! - YouTube

 

[GeneV]

And a good one too.

Lots of good ones in their arsenal.

 

[ovrszd]

Problem with leaving ballast inplace is the old ballast becomes the weak link. Failing and aging ballast are the prime reason florescent lamps fail. I like to eliminate them.

And most of the electrical consumption is the ballast.

 

[ovrszd]

OSB doesn稚 work to bad. It doesn稚 take paint well but good enough for a shop to make it brighter.

I did OSB and painted it white. I like it. Easy to hang stuff.

 

[nybirdman]

My neighbor just built a 30x40' garage and used white metal for the ceilings and walls,this plus a lot of LED's;you could perform surgery in it.I like it alot.I just replaced my 30 year old fluorescents in my garage with LED's and it makes a huge difference.