Garage (fluorescent) lights.

[david lang]

In my 16' x 8' single garage workshop I have 5 x 100w bulbs above and two

60w anglepoise type lamps, one next to my drill press & one next to my RAS.

I don't think that's nuts, I just like to see what I'm doing!

Dave

[John Rumm]

I have tried with two at a time, and while it is fine for "popping in" to get something, it is just not nice to work in. I have two lights mounted mid way along the ceiling:

two on the end walls:

ones in the middle on their own are nearly good enough, but the extra ones on the ends add a little extra warmth to the light and make it more diffuse. They don't appreciably add to the overall light level though (probably due to the eyes logarithmic response to light intensity).

The overall effect is just very even diffuse light that while bright, is certainly not hard on the eyes (for me anyway):

fittings. The one thing you dont want to do is stick a bare light

I would agree with that - if it were not for the diffusers I would have smashed a good number of tubes so far!! ;-)

[meow2222]

Yes, you do need a flat white foof.

|_*[]_ pointing down, least not if you want half decent lighting.

Nowt wrong with task lighting, but I'll bet you its exessively bright! Those sort of fittings are not ideal for general lighting tho.

NT

[meow2222]

For popping it to get something I used a single 2' light.

mumble mumble diffusers mumble mumble.

I think thats their only real use, breakage prevention. Install it the right way up in the first place and theres no risk of that.

NT