Don’t mind the mess…was while I was building handrails…but I have 15 10,000 lumens 4’ shop lights in my shop…I bought all of them from rural king and if memory serves me correctly (sorry old guy on this end…) I gave $40 a piece for them…I do custom fab and paint in my shop and I can see thing under the lights in my shop that you can’t see outside on the brightest day…you could do surgery in my shop with the lights…but I’ve never liked trying to work in a cave…my last shop was dark and gloomy…I’ll not let this one be that way…there’s a lot of shop lights out there that’s cheap…what really matters is the lumen count on a led light…the higher the lumen count the brighter the light…hope my ramblings have helped…
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LED Lighting Woes - Suggestions?
- Thread starter Chip Monkey
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I'll be your street light, baby... and I'm lighting up your town... Army cadences still get stuck like old songs.
This is a night time photo from when I hung my lights. The main bay shown is perfect. I did add additional light, 2 high bays wasn't enough on their own in the partitioned space (follows same grid and spacing as shown), so I bought 3 more. I'm going to add one each above the operator's position on the lathe and mill, and I might use the third one over my welding are near the man door.
I'm just over 250 lumens per square foot (lux) here, or 25 foot-candles, depending on your reference material. I benefit from additional task lighting sometimes at the bench, and I certainly use machine lights. Someone's gotta pay the bill, so I don't have a tanning salon running in my shop, and I'm already twice as bright as a fine-item warehouse. If I need clean room lighting, I'll use a bench light, but otherwise, I'm really happy with the light output I have.
For demanding visual tasks, use the IESNA Illumination Guide:
Public spaces 30 lux
Simple orientation for short visits 50 lux
Working spaces where simple visual tasks are performed 100 lux
Performance of visual tasks of high contrast or large size 300 lux
Performance of visual tasks of high contrast and small size, or visual tasks of low contrast and high size 500 lux
Performance of visual tasks of low contrast and small size 1000 lux
This breaks down into more refined recommendations:
Warehouse (active, bulky items, large labels) 50 lux
Warehouse (active, small items, small labels) 100 lux
Simple inspection or assembly 300 lux
Difficult inspection or assembly 500 lux
Exacting inspection or assembly 1000 lux
Welding-orientation 300 lux
Welding precision manual 1000 lux
Rough bench or machine work, 300 lux
Medium machine work (automatic) 500 lux
Fine machine work (manual, grinding) 1000 lux
This is a night time photo from when I hung my lights. The main bay shown is perfect. I did add additional light, 2 high bays wasn't enough on their own in the partitioned space (follows same grid and spacing as shown), so I bought 3 more. I'm going to add one each above the operator's position on the lathe and mill, and I might use the third one over my welding are near the man door.
I'm just over 250 lumens per square foot (lux) here, or 25 foot-candles, depending on your reference material. I benefit from additional task lighting sometimes at the bench, and I certainly use machine lights. Someone's gotta pay the bill, so I don't have a tanning salon running in my shop, and I'm already twice as bright as a fine-item warehouse. If I need clean room lighting, I'll use a bench light, but otherwise, I'm really happy with the light output I have.
For demanding visual tasks, use the IESNA Illumination Guide:
Public spaces 30 lux
Simple orientation for short visits 50 lux
Working spaces where simple visual tasks are performed 100 lux
Performance of visual tasks of high contrast or large size 300 lux
Performance of visual tasks of high contrast and small size, or visual tasks of low contrast and high size 500 lux
Performance of visual tasks of low contrast and small size 1000 lux
This breaks down into more refined recommendations:
Warehouse (active, bulky items, large labels) 50 lux
Warehouse (active, small items, small labels) 100 lux
Simple inspection or assembly 300 lux
Difficult inspection or assembly 500 lux
Exacting inspection or assembly 1000 lux
Welding-orientation 300 lux
Welding precision manual 1000 lux
Rough bench or machine work, 300 lux
Medium machine work (automatic) 500 lux
Fine machine work (manual, grinding) 1000 lux
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