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I have to improve my shop lighting. Right now, I have 8 feet neons all the way on the beams, 16 feet. Some people tell me to go with T5 flurorescent lights lowered by chains, but I was wondering about metal halide. What do you guys have?
 
T-5 High bay light fixtures will work fine. You can mount them up on the beams. The problem with metal halide fixtures is the re-strike time is 10-15 minutes, so if some one turns off the lights and try to turn them back on right away, you will have wait for the fixture to turn on. Here is a web site you can by fixtures from www.e-conolight.com
 
I've never been in a shop with metal halides that I liked the light.

t8's with good ho ballasts or t'5s are the way to go I think.

I posted a while back on LED's and bought a Sylvania high bay 11,200 lumens light for experimentation and I don't like it. Big Ass light should be very similar. Very intense to look at it if I'm under the hoist and look up at suspension. Kinda blinds ya and the rest is a directed flood light with shadows. I'm setting my new work area up with t8's with 1.18 ballast factor ballasts and when they figure out led replacment bulbs in the future then I might convert.

Their really isn't an energy savings with the high power leds. Similar watts per lumen, cost is rediculous and the difference would probably never pay for itself.
 
Brad J.;n76265 said:
I've never been in a shop with metal halides that I liked the light.

t8's with good ho ballasts or t'5s are the way to go I think.

I posted a while back on LED's and bought a Sylvania high bay 11,200 lumens light for experimentation and I don't like it. Big Ass light should be very similar. Very intense to look at it if I'm under the hoist and look up at suspension. Kinda blinds ya and the rest is a directed flood light with shadows. I'm setting my new work area up with t8's with 1.18 ballast factor ballasts and when they figure out led replacment bulbs in the future then I might convert.

Their really isn't an energy savings with the high power leds. Similar watts per lumen, cost is rediculous and the difference would probably never pay for itself.
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I agree, best bang for the $ is t-8 with good ballasts.
 
If you want an enourmous amount of information go to garagejournal.com and check out the lighting/electrical section. There's a guy (he does military and industrial lighting) who's posted some awesome info.
 
i have t5 fixtures in my shop. i got all mine from here....

http://www.fullspectrumsolutions.com...y_111_prd1.htm


i really like these and have had no trouble with them. they run 12-16 hrs a day, 7 days a week for the past 8 years. the bulbs that come with this are color corrective so all your colors in the shop will look the same as outside. i have 22 of these fixtures in my place and the same bulbs in t8 running in my booth. the t5's are by far waaaay brighter than t8's in my booth and burn about the same power. one thing to consider with all fluorescents is they dim over time unless you change the bulbs on a yearly basis burnt out or not. always put more lighting in than you need. when my shop was new and everything was bright shiny white and new bulbs you would walk in and almost feel like you needed to put on a pair of sunglasses. now it has dimmed to a normal but good level for working. i have an art room in my shop which is 20x20. for that sqft on a 12' ceiling, 4 of these fixtures works out really well and lights everything very good for detailed work.
 
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