Re: OT Shop lights

Posted by John T on September 14, 2006 at 19:03:32 from (66.244.90.5):

In Reply to: OT Shop lights posted by Dave H (MI) on September 14, 2006 at 17:01:20:

Dave, Around here Menards or Home Depot or Lowes or Wally World has them. They are okay except when its real cold n then they are slowwwwwwww to start n warm up unless you get a suitable ballast. Industrial users rely more on the 2 tube 8 foot strip type fixtures but if the ceiling is dark or way high they dont reflect too well (waste a lot of light) as compared to the ones with a reflector. The 2 tube 4 foot fixtures are a lil under 100 watts each so you can run several on a 15 or 20 amp 120 volt lighting branch circuit. If you use a circuit breaker to turn them on versus a switch use the breakers rated for fluorescent light switching.

For shop lights you may wanna consider the more expensive but way more efficient (more lumens per watt) HID lights such as a low bay Metal Halide cuz their color rendition with the coated lamps (as compared to say HP Sodium) is pretty good but they take time to strike and/or restrike if thats a problem in your application, and you could add the quartz option if it is.

A good shop mix may be fluorescent right over the bench n work areas for the fast lighting and good color then use low bay Metal halide HID in the storage lesser light areas.

John T

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