That is some good thinking on your part. That lighting is very functional. It's not to late for me to copy you...hahaha...:worship2:
Well the T8 fixtures are perfectly fine, I'm not longer using this garage..actually house was sold and I left all the lights in the garage. I sure put the T8's to good use, the lights are perfectly fine...however, there is always better :thumb: The new garage is receiving an incredible lighting system. Now I'm not expert on lighting, what I know I know because of a friend of mine who is a lighting specialist. Well what he told me when I was designing my lighting system for my new garage is that spacing is key. Spacing and knowing the spectrum of the fixtures/bulbs you want. I didn't know this but there are significant factors when choosing a light fixture. Certain lights will focus the light to a particular spot, certain fixtures will just throw a blanket (sort of speak) of light. Any who like I said T8's are perfectly fine but if I remember correctly the fixtures for T8's will be discontinued shortly, you can still purchase the bulbs but the fixtures will be discontinued. T12's are the new industry standard. As to what I'm currently installing in my new garage are the T5's industrial grade. The T5's are extremely powerful, now they aren't cheap by any means but like anything you get what you pay for. For example, they are far superior in the aspect as to how much light they put out. So this comes in handy in the amount of fixtures you need to light up a space. For example, in my old garage I had close to 30 T8's. I needed that to properly light up the garage so I would be able to see every spec of dirt in and out of the vehicle. In the new garage I will have about 15 T5's, 1/2 of what I required in the old garage. Also the ceiling of the new garage is much higher then the old garage which does effect the design of the lights. Like I said key to lighting is spacing it properly. If your looking at adding lighting to your garage/house or any where sit down and come up with a pattern...now lighting experts look take lighting patterns and literally are able to see where the light will hit where there will be a dark spot..ect..ect..you don't need to be an expert to come up with a good pattern you in your garage, just take the time to sit down measure out the space you want to cover and build your pattern with an equal amount of distance between them. Well that's what the experts tell me and it's worked out good for me so far. Hope this helps...ooh and did you know you get "pot lights" that are like the 3M Sun Gun...:nod: yup you can...they are really expensive but I never knew there was a light bulb that would replicate the 3M Sun Gun...I thought it was impossible :shrug: Will see if they truly are 3M Sun Gun quality :shrug: I'm still not convinced till I see it my self.
just a thought why not put lighting in the walls with separate switches? thx for the tips though!!!!! always super informative!!!!!!
:nod: yes it's always good to have options and use as many switches as you'd like. As for lights on the walls I'm doing that as well :thumb: Oh another thing is don't cheap out on the number of circuits you have coming out of your electrical panel. I mean, considering the amount of lights I'm going to have in my new garage I have dedicated 5 circuits for pure lighting and about 5 circuits for plugs. It takes up space in your panel but the last thing you want to do is have your breakers tripping becuase you have too many things pluged in.
