"RonB" wrote in message
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By contrast our three car garage/shop has three 8-foot, two tube
fluorescent
units serving about 635 square feet. They are arranged in a "T" with two
parallel to the wall opposite the three doors and one perpendicular to the
others in the center of the garage. These three fixtures provide a lot of
light. Shortly after we finished the house a friend drove down a road .2
mile from our house when the garage doors were up. He said our garage
looked like the Cape Kennedy shuttle assembly building - a slight
exaggeration but we do have good light.

Ron


Holy cow Ron - my garage is only a little bigger than yours and I have 9
100W incandescent bulbs, a couple of 4ft shop lights here and there, a
portable 500W halogen or two and it seems I'm always carrying a trouble
light around with me. My garage is a three car garage and is very much a
multi-use garage. It functions part time as a garage (really most of the
time), part time as a paint bay (automotive painting - uses two of the bays
to do this), a lot of time as a repair garage (only consumes one bay), and
one bay is dedicated to my shop area where all of my wood tools call home
(note - this can be translated as collection point for everything that comes
into the garage...) - and I'm really hurting for light. In fact it's
getting so bad that I'm about to do some sort of wholesale lighting changes.
I'd like to go with florescent, but I'm in the cold northeast and unless I
spend a wad of money on cold start, fluorescents just don't cut it up here
for too much of the year. I do have a furnace in the garage, but there's
just too many times that I need light and really don't need to be firing up
the furnace just to warm up fluorescents. Probably will go with more
incandescent. It sucks to be getting old - the eyesight is the second thing
to go.
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-Mike-