- 1. shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: Doug Odom <popms@thegrid.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:47:01 -0700
- List, I am hoping that someone on the list knows about lighting. The main part of my shop is 30' X 50' with 12' high walls. For the last 20 years I have used 11 florescent fixtures. Both 4' and 8' an
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00612.html (7,903 bytes)
- 2. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:43:54 -0500
- Oh Contraire..... I'm the one in the dark..... I won't buy another 4' fluorescent.... I've had nothing but trouble with mine..... I've got 18 in the main 28 X 48 and several more upstairs and so on..
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00614.html (8,586 bytes)
- 3. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:58:15 -0400
- you would have to think it has to depend on the color of the walls to begin with.. Second every shop I have ever been in has a string of lights that seems to go from one end to another that is pretty
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00615.html (8,550 bytes)
- 4. FW: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Dana Goulston" <dana@goulston.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:15:58 -0700
- Hi Doug, I have the 8' fixture from Home Depot with those nifty "Hi-Output" tubes (their ends are a single spring-loaded contact instead of the double twist-ons). LOTS OF LIGHT!!! ... and a real chea
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00620.html (8,832 bytes)
- 5. RE: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:25:26 -0500
- My new shop has 8 flourescent fixtures in the ceiling (half the shop has an 8' ceiling, the other is a sloping ceiling of about 16' average height) and I'm very pleased with the lighting. Each fixtu
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00621.html (9,602 bytes)
- 6. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Siewert <mdsiewer@ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:25:48 -0600
- Doug, I'm no lighting expert, but it sounds to me that you should be short on light. My shop is 24 by 30, 10 foot walls and I run 12 4 foot flourescents fixtures (2 tubes each). The shop I'm sitting
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00622.html (9,239 bytes)
- 7. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: W S Potter <wester6935@attbi.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:05:49 -0700
- There's some interesting halogen bulbs available now to replace 100 watt and larger bulbs for standard industrial type fixtures that really provide a lot of light. Might try one and see what you thi
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00628.html (9,134 bytes)
- 8. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: Ed Van Scoy <ed@vetteracing.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:55:34 -0700
- My shop is 30 x 50 but the main "work area" is 30 x 30. I cant have lights directly above the lift because the overhead door would cover them when up. So,I have a run of 2-tube 8'flourescents runnin
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00629.html (10,475 bytes)
- 9. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:07:49 -0700
- I'm going for sky lights. Won't help much at night but it sure lights things up when the sun is out. Rich Fox -- Original Message -- From: "Doug Odom" <popms@thegrid.net> To: "Land Speed List" <land-
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00631.html (8,463 bytes)
- 10. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:12:01 -0700
- I have a 25' X 40' shop with 10" walls. It has 12 four foot, two tube fluorescent lights. They provide adequate lighting because, I painted floor, walls and ceiling gloss white. Even with my old eye
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00637.html (8,579 bytes)
- 11. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Christensen" <saltrunner31@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:16:48 -0600
- Doug, you might talk to an electrician or lighting store about high output florescent fixtures.....these things put out about twice the light as regular ones. cost a little more, but worth it I think
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00672.html (8,896 bytes)
- 12. RE: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0500
- Agreed. Those GE Sunshine fluorescents are excellent, too. I carefully shopped around for my light fixtures and tubes and did a lot of comparisons between the light fixtures in a display at Home Dep
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00674.html (10,645 bytes)
- 13. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: stpitt@zipcon.net
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:10:18 -700
- If you have the patience you can try this site I use at work for researching construction products. Do a search with the word lighting or other words and it will bring up manufacturers, products, an
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00677.html (8,322 bytes)
- 14. Re: shop lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick Yacoucci" <turborick@TurboRick.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:31:17 -0700
- I was looking to adding more light fixtures to my 40 X 40 shop but I just all the dust from the tubes and fixtures and the brightness in my shop is fine again just like I remembered is was when I ins
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00876.html (10,100 bytes)
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