Well, FWIW, I have 3 rows of 4 lights in my garage. They're on 3 separate
switches. If all I'm doing is going in to look for something, it doesn't
make sense to turn on all 12. When the overhead door is up, that blocks 1
row, so no sense in turning them on. See where I'm going with that? Your
gonna need all them on at one time or another, without a doubt, but there's
time you won't. That's in my garage, your garage may be different. The shop
is pretty much the same way, but with a fourth switch to turn on just a 4
foot fixture, in case I just need to run in there after something. YMMV.

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"x071907" wrote in message
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I just had my service panel upgraded and now I plan on redoing the
lighting in my garage. I have a 26' x 21' garage and I plan on
installing 9 t-8 lighting fixtures (3 rows x 3 deep)(see configuration
below). The question I have is: does it matter how I run the wiring
to each fixture? I am thinking of running the wiring in an 'S'
pattern to each fixture. Or, does it make more sense to run 3
separate T's coming off of the main line? I also thought about running
two separate circuits for the lights. This way I could increase or
decrease the lighting as needed. Which makes the most sense?

SP = Service Panel
SW = Switch
= Lighting Fixture

SP
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SW