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Originally Posted by john hall
So what type of lighting are you going to install? Our farm shop had old fluorescent that my uncle got from Lord only knows where. Well, over the last 30 years a lot of it has died. So, dad got a bunch of used 4 ft fixtures from a drugstore that was being renovated. Now most of it has died. He even bought some new 8' fluorescent fixtures and those are flaky. A while back I bought a bunch of 4' LED fixtures at Costco, but haven't been able to coordinate getting my electrician buddy to replace them. We switched to all LED at work this past winter and are quite pleased. According to the power company those lights will pay for themselves in a few years. Of course in a home shop, the light bill is fairly negligible. I often pay more just for the power to be turned on than we actually use for that month.
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I'm not sold on the LED lights just yet. At least the big ones for shops and outdoor use. I still see a lot of them that fail; either the whole thing goes out, sections go out, or they flicker. I've been using the 4' "shop light" at Lowe's for $15 (plus bulbs). Just put electric outlets in the ceiling where the old lights were and plug them in. If one goes out, it's easy to take it off the chains and swap in a new one. Bulbs are very reasonable too, and price varies depending what color temp you want.