Garage Lighting
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i got a bunch of 500 watt halgon lites for ten bucks apiece from tractor supply. i made brackets to mount them to the ceiling and i have one mounted over my work benchand two more mounted on the walls so they shine i puddle of light on the floor were the truck/tractor/project is normally parked. works pretty good for lighting the underside just from the ligtht reflecting off the floor. course ya can never beet a trouble lamp when working underneath somthing. i have often wondered about putting lights in the floor pointing toward thge ceiling. but theyd probally get covered or yad lookinto them with yar eyes and be blinded.
Mountain Pass
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From: KS
Originally Posted by Torque1st
Surprisingly those cheapo electronic ballast flourescents available at the home box stores work in cold weather. I have been using three for years with good results in my garage. They make more noise starting in cold weather. You can't hard wire the units I have because the cord is part of the electronic ballast circuit. Maybe it is a resistor wire. I am thinking of just placing outlets on the ceiling and place the fixtures where I want them. I can move them if I want to.
3 rows of 5 lights and put in 15 outlets in the ceiling for them on 2 circuits.
I never let the garage get below 50 in the winter so they have worked
good so far. If one does go bad, you pitch it and put up a new one.
Mountain Pass
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From: Jonesborough, TN
I use to have dual tungsten and fluorescent because of the cold starts, then I found the 0 start. They cost a little more but you only have to wire for one kind of lights and they put out a lot more light then the standard fluorescent even when it is warm. The ones I bought I found that the 8ft doubles were only a couple of dollars more than the double 4ft so that is what I have been putting in. I have slowly converted over the last few years and I'm down to 4 more and I'll be done.
Lights low on the walls and in the ceiling do work well. Ditto on the multiple circuits. If you don't want lots of switches buy pull string switches on the fixtures and then just turn the ones on you need.
Jim...
66 Ranchero (soon)
98 F150
and some other non Fords
Lights low on the walls and in the ceiling do work well. Ditto on the multiple circuits. If you don't want lots of switches buy pull string switches on the fixtures and then just turn the ones on you need.
Jim...
66 Ranchero (soon)
98 F150
and some other non Fords
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