Best Value LED Garage Lighting & Install | Budget Workshop Lighting Review
In this video, we talk about experience with cheap shop lighting using cheap LED lighting battens. Having been really impressed with the ones we originally installed in this garage 4 years ago, we decided to expand by adding more of the same.
Here are the garage lights I installed in this video:
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These LED lights may be available locally to you at a cheaper price which is how we got ours. They are manufactured by a brand called Status and marketed as 4ft LED lighting battens.
We'd noticed that the boxes varied between 1500 lumens and 2000 lumens but we haven't noticed a difference in the light output between them, even side by side. I suspect they used a conservative estimate of 1500lm and later changed the packaging to say 2000lm after more testing.
They are also supposedly "Cool White" 4000k light temperature (even though they have written that on a warm white colour background). In practise we have found them to be more similar to daylight 5000k which mean they balance very well with window light in your workshop.
Each tube bulb is 18w power consumption which is very low for lights that output this many lumens. Thanks to this we felt no reservations in wiring up 15 of these lights wired in parallel. It's the equivalent of only 2 or 3 old style light bulbs in terms of wattage.
The above all makes for an excellent lighting choice in your garage, especially if you are shooting videos in there too. We've found they do not flicker in our footage across multiple cameras.
The garage is 5m by 5m and the 15 lights makes for a very bright work environment. We wired so only 6 of the lights illuminate on one switch, and the rest light up on the second. So if you are simply pulling a car into the garage on an evening you don't need the full power of all lights.
We arent electricians and we'd recommend you do your own research of call a professional if in doubt about anything. We wired our garage using some armoured cable from the house up to an RCD, and run separate circuits for the lighting and the power sockets.
We did for a while get a bit excited about installing those LED hexagon ceiling lights you commonly see online, especially in detailers workshops. However when we priced these up, they were vastly more expensive than the garage LED light battens, and with the garage door opener crossing the ceiling we would have been unable to get the full unbroken hexagon light array anyway.
Further to that, these hexagon garage lights are very trendy and likely to look very tacky in a few years time. The LED strip lights are a classic look which will never go out of style, and produce nice catch lights on your car's paintwork.
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