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Offline Randy Powell

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Amazing what a little light can do
« on: January 17, 2010, 10:44:03 PM »
We were at Lowe's today to pick up some stuff for the house. While in the lighting section, I decided that a bit more light in the shop couldn't hurt. I've got 6 4' florescent lights in there, but one had died and bulbs were out in two more, so I picked up 3 new fixtures and a pile of 4' florescent tubes (they were on sale). Weirdly, the light fixtures were black (instead of the usual white - go figure). Anyway, I replaced the dead fixture and all the burned out bulbs and put in two new fixtures directly over the work benches.

Amazing effect. I can actually see in there now. Very cool. I'm going back tomorrow to get some new fixtures for another section of the shop where I have my drawing table and such.

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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 05:35:30 AM »
HOW TRUE! And the older I get the more the extra light is needed!

My shop downstairs is about 400 sq ft and I have seven (7) of the 4-bulb recessed light fixtures in it. It's great! CLP**

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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2010, 06:08:48 AM »
I'd do that too but I'm afraid that I might actually see the quality of my workmanship... :-[

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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2010, 07:19:14 AM »
Randy,
       Try using one cool bulb and one warm bulb in the florescent fixture. It gives the most natural sunlight for good color viewing.
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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2010, 10:27:14 AM »
Today, I installed some more lights out there. A dome light in the little dormer where I keep my TV and "mancave" stuff and an odd sort of circular track light thing I got at Lowe's over the drafting table. Seems like that should work real well.

Fun stuff, upgrading the shop a bit.
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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2010, 12:02:57 PM »
I have a 10' x 20' prefab shed that I insulated and added electrical to. I have 5 4' flourescent fixtures and a total of 32 electrical outlets 7, 4 ways and 2, 2 ways in the overhead. No extension cords needed there is a plug in within arms reach where ever you stand plus an ceiling fan and an exhaust fan on one end.

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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2010, 04:56:02 PM »
Yea, I also have a lot of plug-ins, though I want to move a couple from the wall to the front of the bench (I did this on most benches, but missed a couple). I also want to get some rubber horse stall mats to put down. they are 2" thick rubber and are hard enough, but with give to make standing for long periods of time easier.

Just another upgrade I want to do. Some paint would be nice, too. Maybe this summer.
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Re: Amazing what a little light can do
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2010, 10:30:08 PM »
Reading about the Flourescent fixtures being black reminded me of an instance at work maybe 15 years ago.  A project I was on at work involved a line of LED indicator lights in a reflective housing.  We went through a large number of iterations for the reflector, first settling on the best shape, which was the easiest part, then went through all kinds of gymnastics trying to get a good reflective surface to project the most light through legend filters and a smoked plastic sheild.  Tried all kinds of white surface coatings, silvered coatings, whatever we could find.  One day, the boss brought a new concept to me and had me do some light level measurements.  Turns out after all the things we tried, the best thing was the plaine, undyed, uncoated black plastic.  Not only did it do the best job of reflecting the available light, it cost less than 1/2 what any other approach did.
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