My New House & Workshop

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Recently Princess Auto had some Sylvania led 2'x4' drop in T-bar style lights for $35 a piece. If I had a use I would have bought a bunch. My boss has 10 2'x2' mounted on the side walls of our shop, they work great. Maybe check HF or clearance stores.

 

[scotts90ranger]

In my shop I have a slew of 4' LED fixtures... in the main shop there's 15 (used to be 16, one died, haven't replaced it yet as it's over the loft now so not important) of the Harbor Freight single row lights but when I did the loft I ordered a 10 or 12 pack from Amazon for like $100 and they seem pretty nice but the plugins are kinda annoying if you are going for aesthetics... I used one in the small room that'll be a bathroom, two in the bigger room and 3 in the working area.

 

[Rick W]

I bought these for my shop, sweet pea’s bonus room closet over her garage, and her basement. Probably 30 lights. Two have gone bad in six or seven years.

They are 4 feet long, but they have a double row of LEDs so they shine outward as well as downward. You can link them together without having to wire each one which makes them super easy to put in. And it comes out to under $10 apiece when you buy them 10 at a time.

In my shop, they are probably 6 feet apart, like four front to back in a 45 foot long shop, and then I have a couple extras over a particular work area. I almost have to wear sunglasses. If you put them 4 feet apart, you could probably get a suntan. You may want to wire them on two circuits, every other light, so you don’t have to turn on all of them every time or something like that.

They’re $81 plus tax for 10 of them delivered in a few days. Cut and paste this link, it’s from eBay.

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Hope it helps

 

[sgtsandman]

I like the idea of separate switched banks when you don't need a lot of light. Not that LEDs burn all that much electricity.

 

[Rick W]

Afterthought, I also bought some with pull chains for sweet peas basement. When you flip the switch, it turns on the first two, and three are on the pull chain, and the pull chain on the far light turns on the rest of them. When she’s putting her away her 5000 Christmas decorations, she likes them all up, but usually just three or four if she has to go fetch something. You get the idea.