Workshop Lighting

[Calpol]

Need to get some lights for ye olde (actually new) workshop. Any suggestions?

Would quite like something that looks cool, a break from the striplights...

 

[Lukey]

Got to be inset Halogens then!


Or Leds...

Very nice.

 

[White House Workshop]

How about concealing some strip lights and bouncing the light off the ceiling for general illumination and then some halogen spots (adjustable of course) for specific work areas?

I have an Anglepoise that is VERY useful - fully adjustable and portable. It won't take an energy saving bulb though - too heavy - so I'll be buying a small stock of 60W incandescent bulbs before they're taken out of production in the next few years...

 

[tnimble]

You could mount high frequency T5 lamps fitted in a flushmount casing with a high gloss reflector. Perhaps the square or round casings which take 4 shorter lamps. Good stable daylight like light, low on electricity, long life time.


You could also mount a couple of these lights at an angle along the wall of the shop above all your tool cabinates.
LED Fluorescent light

 

[druster]

I've got a metal halide lamp at each end of my workshop, good daylight light levels, just can't switch them on and off quickly, so I have them on plug sockets so I only switch them on when i'm in there for a stretch.

 

[Calpol]

Are inset lights those wee eyeball downlight jobbies? Those are the ones I'd prefer, low profile and slick!

Don't halogen lamps cast shadows? Don't know if that's a bad thing, just been told it is! :lol:

Fluorescent lamps don't though, is that right?

 

[druster]

go for a flood of light, use as many lights as you can afford, have them wired up so you can zone them use incandescent lights as well as flourescents, flourescents can make spinning objects look stationary if the frequencies tally, also lots of task lights.
thats what I am going to do anyway.

 

[tnimble]

go for a flood of light, use as many lights as you can afford, have them wired up so you can zone them use incandescent lights as well as flourescents, flourescents can make spinning objects look stationary if the frequencies tally, also lots of task lights.
thats what I am going to do anyway.

This is only true for traditional fluorescent lights they discharge a bright flash of light about 100 times a second. The high frequency lights do this about 200 to 4000 times as fast.

You would than say that still spinning object can seem static for other rotation speeds. No. The flash of light is ultraviolet light. The white coating around the inside of the glass tube is a phosphoric compound. The flash of ultraviolet light charges this compound. The compound itself starts to emit visible light.

The phosphoric compound has an after glow time. Just as you can see an old telly still emit light jyst after turning it off in a dark room.

With hf fluorescent lights the flashes come very fast after each other. Well within the time the phosphoric compound still emits large amounts of visible light. Therefore the light emitted is near constant.

@Calpol:
Halogen lamps are mostly used as spot lights. And there for they cast the most shadows. (altough a laser casts way more shadow, almost an infinate amount) Fluorescent lamps are more or less (depending on the casing) omni directional and cast lesser shadows.

 

[Calpol]

Can you get fluorescent lamps then for those inset eyeball type lights? I can't find any, but they might have a technical term that I don't know...

 

[tnimble]

Can you get fluorescent lamps then for those inset eyeball type lights? I can't find any, but they might have a technical term that I don't know...

They are called ESLs