what to use for garage lighting?

[Sorang06]

I'm wondering what everyone else is using to light up their garage so you can see the paint really well all over the car when detailing. my garage is pretty dark, no drywall to help reflect light, just the wood studs. i went to home depot today and looked at some T5 High output fluorescent lights 54w/bulb. Im thinking of buying 4 of these. I have a regular sized 2 stall garage. they have a few color options for the bulbs as well, cool white, soft white, natural and stuff like that. what is the best option?

[richy]

The T-5's are the new skinny ones, right? If so, they will be just fine. Don't get cool white, that is a dull light output. Check the colour temp: it should be 6000 or over. You want it to resemble the light of the sun.

[Mike lambert]

I use the high bay fixtures I found at home depot. 5 t8 bulbs,daylight not cool white. They run about $100 with bulbs. They work very well

[watson1000]

I would also recommend the T8 bulbs in daylight . I have a 28 x 30 garage ,finished inside and I used 48' of lights ,it is very bright.

Glenn

[pixelmonkey]

at home
- x6 - 4' fluorescent lights. 2 bulbs per light.
*20'x 25' 2 car garage

at work
- i'm not going to count all of those!


chris<pixelmonkey>

[silverfox]

Go with the T8s. Here is an example for illustration purposes:

Car Guy Garage: Four 48" Long Linkable T8 Garage Lighting

[oldmodman]

I have four of these in my garage.

250 Watt 120 Volt - 16 Inch Aluminum - Pulse Start Metal Halide Light | High Bay Lights - Warehouse-Lighting.com

I bought them at a "tearing down the warehouse" sale when a local price Club closed down.
I bought 24 of them for $15.00 each. And bought a crate of spare bulbs for a dollar each bulb.

The produce a brilliant daylight temperature light. Only drawback is that they take three minutes to come up to full brightness and stabilize. And don't look at them while they are striking, they are putting out pure UV.

[Agfan]

Flashlight and a couple candles.

Seriously a couple halogen lights works perfect.

[TimmyG]

I use a T5 HO setup (high output). It's 6500K daylight bulbs (4 ft bulbs, 8 of them) = total wattage 432w. This is my main light above the hood of my vette. I have regular T5's throughout the garage for supplemental lighting.

[Sizzle Chest]

I went with the same T5's from Home Depot. I put 6 eight footers up and my garage looks like the sun with all of them turned on! I really like them! (bulbs are expensive though, $10.00 a piece)