Best Garage Lighting

[allen in texas]

Here's my lights
#1 Nothing on but the night light
#2 center of south bay on
#3 added center of north bay
#4 added main lights of south bay
#5 added main lights of north bay
#6 a picture best I could get of all of them

 

[grsthegreat]

nice shop...but id hate to see your electric bill

 

[allen in texas]

nice shop...but id hate to see your electric bill

I haven't seen a bill yet since I put up the lights but it shouldn't make much difference. I was using multiple 500 watt halogen work lights before this. I think my bill might actually be lower.

I can always hope huh.

 

[grsthegreat]

I haven't seen a bill yet since I put up the lights but it shouldn't make much difference. I was using multiple 500 watt halogen work lights before this. I think my bill might actually be lower.

I can always hope huh.

each t8 4 foot light with 2 x 32 watt = 64 watt plus balast....so lets say 70 watts per fixture. (if it used 40 watts then say 90 watts per fixture)

you can run 7 of these for the cost of one 500 watt hallogen light.

my 30x40 shop has 8 - high output florescent lights. each takes 240 watts of power. these were the ticket years ago..they suck now days. but they do work down to -40F. hum like nobody's business. so 8 x 240 = 1,920 watts / hr. therefore they cost me aprox 11｢/hour to operate.

since i dont use the shop too often, its not too bad. if i were to eventually replace these with 4 lamp t8's, id need at least 8. So 8 x 140 watts = 1120 watts...which equates to 7｢/hour..... hmmm

not a huge savings. im looking into the low bay t5 fixtures, but there way too spendy right now.

currently i have an average of 26 foot candles the new layout would give me 34 foot candle average.