"stryped" wrote in message
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I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?
If they are the brand labelled "Shop Lights"? I bought a bunch (14)of these
from Home Depot. 100% failure of the ballast units in a very short time.
Some didn't last long enough for me to put the ladder away. When I
complained the source sent me a second set of 14. Guess what?? I now have
completed the exchange of those ballast units also. This is for a lighting
system that parallels another similar unit that was installed in 1973 and
the ballasts in those units are original. Voltage checks show the same
voltage being supplied to both sets.

Stu

I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?

"stryped" wrote in message
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I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?

"stryped" wrote in message
...
I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?

Consider maintenance in the future. Fixtures hung from short chains would be easier to maintain
than flush mounted ones; particularly so should you have to replace a ballast, switch or etc. If
yur suspended ceiling is standard height, why not just hang the shop lights 8" or so from the
ceiling? I did that in my shop. Each set of 2 fixtures is equipped with a pull-chain switch.

Bob Swinney

Bob Swinney
"stryped" wrote in message
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I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?

On Dec 1, 1:34*pm, "Robert Swinney" wrote:
Consider maintenance in the future. *Fixtures hung from short chains would be easier to maintain
than flush mounted ones; particularly so should you have to replace a ballast, switch or etc. *If
yur suspended ceiling is standard height, why not just hang the shop lights 8" or so from the
ceiling? *I did that in my shop. *Each set of 2 fixtures is equipped with a pull-chain switch.

Bob Swinney

Bob Swinney"stryped" wrote in message

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I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?
How do I hang these and make them look ok with a suspended ceiling?

On Dec 1, 10:29*am, stryped wrote:
I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?

IMHO the only rule regarding light fixture selection: in a unheated
garage in the winter, if you buy anything that doesn't have a ballast
rated for low-temperature operation you're a fool.

Tim.

I fashioned a hook from 1 link of chain and bent a 90 across one side of the (fig 8 shaped) link.
The hoks were then mounted to the dry wall ceiling material with moly bolts.
"stryped" wrote in message
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On Dec 1, 1:34 pm, "Robert Swinney" wrote:
Consider maintenance in the future. Fixtures hung from short chains would be easier to maintain
than flush mounted ones; particularly so should you have to replace a ballast, switch or etc. If
yur suspended ceiling is standard height, why not just hang the shop lights 8" or so from the
ceiling? I did that in my shop. Each set of 2 fixtures is equipped with a pull-chain switch.

Bob Swinney

Bob Swinney"stryped" wrote in message

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I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?
How do I hang these and make them look ok with a suspended ceiling?

How the ### would we know the policies of a store that's not
even named?

I have a tool, will it do the job?

--
Christopher A. Young
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"stryped" wrote in message
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I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them.
It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage.
Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are
designed for
suspended ceilings?

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:34:23 -0600, "Robert Swinney"
wrote:

Consider maintenance in the future. Fixtures hung from short chains would be easier to maintain
than flush mounted ones; particularly so should you have to replace a ballast, switch or etc. If
yur suspended ceiling is standard height, why not just hang the shop lights 8" or so from the
ceiling? I did that in my shop. Each set of 2 fixtures is equipped with a pull-chain switch.

Bob Swinney

The fixtures over my lathes are hung on chains just high enough to
clear my hair but with the option to lower them by 18". They are fed
by cord sets plugged into a duplex receptacle fed by one of the two
lighting circuits.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

On Dec 2, 12:45*am, Gerald Miller wrote:
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:34:23 -0600, "Robert Swinney"

wrote:
Consider maintenance in the future. *Fixtures hung from short chains would be easier to maintain
than flush mounted ones; particularly so should you have to replace a ballast, switch or etc. *If
yur suspended ceiling is standard height, why not just hang the shop lights 8" or so from the
ceiling? *I did that in my shop. *Each set of 2 fixtures is equipped with a pull-chain switch.

Bob Swinney

The fixtures over my lathes are hung on chains just high enough to
clear my hair but with the option to lower them by 18". They are fed
by cord sets plugged into a duplex receptacle fed by one of the two
lighting circuits.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

These were purchased at Lowes and plug into ceiling outlets and hang
by chains. They are electronic ballasts good for cold temperatures.

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:29:11 -0800 (PST), stryped
wrote:

I have 10 "shop lights" and still have the boxes for them. It turns
out I will have to install a suspended ceilign in my garage. Should I/
Can I exchange these for the ones that fit flush and are designed for
suspended ceilings?


Have to? Why would you want a suspended ceiling in a garage?

Thank You,
Randy

Remove 333 from email address to reply.

Mine are the same or very similar. They are Home Depot's "el cheapos". They are hard-wired to a
stub of Romex coming down through the dry-wall ceiling. They are in sets of 2 fixtures (4 bulbs)
over each machine and over my desk. Each set of 2 has a pull-chain switch. When it became
necessary to replace 1 of the switches - jerked out by getting caught in the folding garage door - I
didn't take the fixture down to replace the switch. I just glued a new switch on the outside and
wire-nutted it in.

Bob Swinney
"stryped" wrote in message
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On Dec 2, 12:45 am, Gerald Miller wrote:
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:34:23 -0600, "Robert Swinney"

wrote:
Consider maintenance in the future. Fixtures hung from short chains would be easier to maintain
than flush mounted ones; particularly so should you have to replace a ballast, switch or etc. If
yur suspended ceiling is standard height, why not just hang the shop lights 8" or so from the
ceiling? I did that in my shop. Each set of 2 fixtures is equipped with a pull-chain switch.

Bob Swinney

The fixtures over my lathes are hung on chains just high enough to
clear my hair but with the option to lower them by 18". They are fed
by cord sets plugged into a duplex receptacle fed by one of the two
lighting circuits.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

These were purchased at Lowes and plug into ceiling outlets and hang
by chains. They are electronic ballasts good for cold temperatures.