Lighting for this Winters Projects

Jumping right back into life here at the farm, my garage finally has some real lighting! I had been planning on putting in LED strip lights and I still may because you can never have enough light.  Before I bought the LED lights a set of 2x4 t8 lights and a box full of bulbs fell into my hands.  The t8 lights are almost as efficient as LED lights and these being of the free nature they sounded great to me!

This first photo needs more explaining in another post but you can see just how dim it is working in the shop and if you reference one of the many Oliver posts from last winter you will see how dim the lighting is and probably even see me wearing a headlamp.  Well headlamp no more because we have lights!

I put the lights right next to the existing lights so that I could daisy chain power off from them easier and to keep them centered in the garage.  Just on the Bongo truck you can see an amazing difference on how bright it is. 

 The Oliver has not moved much but someday soon I will get back to it and have it running nicely.  On the plus side at least now I can see what I am working on! For Christmas Santa brought me even more lights so that it looks like daytime in the garage at night.  With four lights to work with I picked the dimmest working areas of the shop.  Over my bench, over my toolbox and the front of my garage bay.

The picture quality is pretty bad on this last one because taking pictures of lights doesn't always come out to well.  Now in the shop i wear my sunglasses BUT I haven't needed a headlamp while working so I guess i have to pick my battles! Until next time stay tuned and check back often!