Workshop task lighting

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And for a workbench unless its use is restricted to sawing up logs for the fire. ;-)

[Bod]

I would have thought that light in the daylight spectrum would've been more suitable....no? I have changed every light in the house to daylight bulbs and found them to be far superior. I compared the old incandescents to the daylight ones and the incandescents looked very yellow.

[Adam Aglionby]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 7:36:35 PM UTC, Bod wrote: d have thought that light in the daylight spectrum would've been

It`s high colour temperature which isn`t same as spectrum, higher CT number quoted in Kelvin K, bluer the light appears, personally think higher temp needs to be matched with high intensity to not look like a grey day.

Cool CT generally not very flattering on skin tones, cheap warm white LED can be like cheap fluro and have a bit of a green cast though.

[Andy Burns]

Adds up to between 360 and 1440 lumens per metre ...

[dennis]

How much does it strobe? They still use tungsten on most machines because of the strobe effect of most alternatives.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

LEDs work basically on DC. Although it may be pulsed for some applications. But at a much higher frequency than mains. Any decent modern fluorescent light also runs at a much higher frequency than mains.

[fred]

ply moving them so they uplight a white ceilng can make quite a difference.

: old fashioned droplight, small fl (eg 13w), or 3w LED in a bulbholder on a wire is better. 1kW halogen is way OTT as a tasklight - it might even sui t Brian. For a fixed task only needing dim light, a string of xmas lights c an be very effective, and only £1.

Incidentally 'Fine Woodworking' have a lot of articles on Shop Lighting on their site but you have to be a member to access them

[dennis]

They may be DC but if its derived from chopping mains it may still strobe. I doubt if they smooth the output much.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

An LED switches on and off pretty well instantly - unlike say tungsten. If you do run them from an unsmoothed DC supply derived from mains via a transformer and rectifier, the flicker is extremely annoying.