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[blacktulip]

As title looking for some new decent lights for the workshop. Can anyone vouch for any in particular? Cheers

[Pickwah]

Any fluorescent strip lighting, ide recommend twin T5 fittings.

 

 The colour of the lamps want to be between 4000-6500 kelvin as this is what's considered 'daylight' these will get you a better lumen output per watt.

 

They will also give the garage a surgery white feel which is better to work in.

 

You could go down the LED route if energy saving is your thing, but these cost a fortune.

[danm]

Rechargeable LED spotlights from Screwfix.

 

I bought a pair for my garage down the road, no mains. Hang them from the ceiling or door / wall. Easy. I get a good 6-7 hours light from mine, and one lamp is bright enough for the whole garage for what I am doing. No heat or burn issues.

 

Bonus is I just take them with me elsewhere if I want to use them, say, camping, in my shed, or keep in the back of the car.

 

Well worth the money.

 

http://www.screwfix....CFeUV0wodFIgPEA

Edited by danm, 12 February 2016 - 01:38 PM.

[screech]

If you go for flourescent, make sure they are high frequency.
If you don't, the strobing (that isn't visible to the naked eye) can cause rotating tools and machinery to appear stationary.

[David128]

that can be fun if your working on a lathe and stick the chuck key in...

[Harrison541]

I'd use fluorescent tubes, they're less likely to create awkward shadows than a couple of single point lights.

[Turbo Nick]

Have been swapping out loads of flourescents for LED batons lately in factories, LED stuff has come on real well and down in price a hell of a lot.

I'll be swapping my twin 6' florries for LED's as soon as we get some 'spares'

[Swift_General]

+1 for LED lighting. Nothing wrong with flourescent but LED has come on a long way, price has dropped a lot. I have bought a lot from this company.
http://www.mini-sun.co.uk/
Put out more light for the power. Don't have to warm up like flourescent. Are directional. Last forever (well they do have a life span but I've never had to replace one yet). And can be dimmable, although you probably wouldn't use that in a garage. Cost a bit more but better in the long run in my view.

Edited by Swift_General, 12 February 2016 - 09:11 PM.

[One step at a time]

Which ever you choose is recommend getting a IP 65 (water proof) rated fitting. You can put them straight on a plug or via a light switch. That is if you have power or a generator.

[mini93]

Rechargeable LED spotlights from Screwfix.

 

I bought a pair for my garage down the road, no mains. Hang them from the ceiling or door / wall. Easy. I get a good 6-7 hours light from mine, and one lamp is bright enough for the whole garage for what I am doing. No heat or burn issues.

 

Bonus is I just take them with me elsewhere if I want to use them, say, camping, in my shed, or keep in the back of the car.

 

Well worth the money.

 

http://www.screwfix....CFeUV0wodFIgPEA

 

 

I'll have to disagree here. A mate used to have this and it died kinda sharpish.

 

I also used to work by single flood-lamp type set up... best thing I ever did was to fob it off and get x3 5ft strip lights in there. Doesnt cause shadows that you get from a single source light.

[CityEPete]

Have been swapping out loads of flourescents for LED batons lately in factories, LED stuff has come on real well and down in price a hell of a lot.
I'll be swapping my twin 6' florries for LED's as soon as we get some 'spares'

I'm doing exactly the same, I fitted treo 5ft single ones in a double garage last week which is only going to be used to house two range rovers rather than workshop style light required, I was surprised how much light they have out, four would have been enough to do the whole room even for tinkering!

[blacktulip]

I've decided to get some led battons from screwfix. I will let you know later how it goes. Cheers.

[blacktulip]

Fitted one batton and it's great. So going to get another one soon. I am going to fit a load of sockets as well so turning into a project. Can anyone tell me the proper method to run exposed wiring into back boxes?

[djdanmk]

Rubber grommets or compression glands

http://www.screwfix....pack-of-2/45943

Another way is to use pvc conduit to run down from high level in your garage down to the socket to provide protection to the cable and link between sockets installed next to each other.

[CityEPete]

I've put metal clad sockets and pvc conduit on all my garage wiring, the sockets must have 30mA RCD protection too.