Hi all, Just whated to take a quick poll. What type of lighting do you use over your bench. Incandesent, floresent, or halide in what type of fixture? I’ve been useing incandesent but have had light refraction problems. Any help would be appericated. Thxs Aardvark
I have incandescent, but the lighting in my workspace is terrible. For painting I have a pair of those giant work lights on a stand, but plan to switch to LED shop-style 4ft LED fixtures above …
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Over my work bench I have a round florescent in one of those articulating arms with a magnifying glass in the center of the bulb. I made sure to get a bulb that throws warm light. This is easier on the eyes then the cooler bluish tone light so I can work longer. This allows me to get the light closer to my work and be able to adjust it at a whim.
Over my airbrush bench I have one of those 4 ft shop lights with two florescent bulbs that throw natural light closer to sunlight in tone. This helps show the true color of the paint as warm light or cool light will change the color of what I see the paint as. I can also compare paint color between both light types.
When I am airbrushing I clip one of those cheap metal clip lights behind me on a chair so that I get light from all angles. The clip light also has a bulb that matches the shop light spectrum.
(2) 8 foot fixture with (2) florescent bulbs plus a high power LED bench light
In addition to recessed ceiling fixtures, I have two of these.
One is over the assembly bench, and the other is over the paint-booth. I often have to position them to assist each other.
You can never have too much workbench lighting, so my next expendature in the area will be an overhead light to cover the whole area. It may be about 4 feet of an LED fixture.
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I use two portable Ott Lights .When I work in the Garage I have two flourescent and one Ott floor lamp . I find the Ott’s live up to their name when it comes to color purity when painting .
I have a couple of articulated desk lamps with daylight builds in them. But i am looking at getting some LED strip light to go at the back of the bench.
I have the same type. They go bad frequently, so I have to replace them. The switches go bad. I suspect the voltage rating on the switches they use cannot stand the high voltage spike from the starters. I would just like to replace that fluorescent tube with a bunch of LEDs and get rid of that fancy but inadequate switch! Those switches cannot be replaced with a regular spst switch.
I have four LED’s.
Your friend, Toshi
I have three halogen light fixtures containing three bulbs each. They get pretty hot, not a good thing for here in SE Texas for 80% of the year. I also have a desktop Ott light and two incandescent lights, as well as the 2 working incandescents in my ceiling fan light fixture.
I also use a round magnifying glass/ flouresent light.
I paint outside about half the time so natural Sunlight 50% of the time.
The other 50% of the time I use a double Haligen floor / work light… but not for very long. It get’s Hot-O A-lot-O !!
4 ft LED shop light over the bench and then I have an articulated desk lamp with an LED bulb at the bench itself.
Hay thats exactly what I have …its great cuss its right over the spray both .[proplr]
Over the bench I have a 4’ shop light with 2 flourescent daylight bulbs and 2 articulated lights, one on either side of the desk with one of them being a light and magnifier. Those two are easy to move to the spaybooth when needed. My new workroom also has a large skylight drectly over the bench for additional light during those cloudy days.
Jim [cptn]
All LED excepting the room light which is a T5 Flourescent fixture. I installed the T5 before linear type LEDs were affordable. I hate flourescents, but with daylight bulbs the T5 is actually a really nice light. I would do LED today though if I had to replace it.
Over the bench I installed track lighting and have a variety of spot, flood and standard lights. I have a long benchtop and the track light system lets me re-arrange or add lights as needed. I like a lot of light and over the years I’ve continued to add until at this point I’ve got around 1000w worth of LED lights although they only consume about 100w and produce no heat. I would melt if they were incandescent or halogen. LEDs also last a long time, my oldest lights are going on 6 years and I have not had to replace one yet.
Track lighting is cheap and easy to install, they even make fittings so you can plug them into a wall socket if you don’t want to mess around with a permanent wiring arrangement.
For years…I had the room light and just a single deskdop type light (incandescent). I added a second desktop type, and things were a little better. I got sick of seeing glaring issues when I moved the project to the paintbooth, which has a flourescent light. Within the last year, I bought a 3ft LED “shop light”(like Rudy mentioned…got it at the same Home Depot he’ll probably get his from!)…it’s made a world of difference!!! Highly recommended!!!
Hi, I got two 4 foot, 2 bulb floresent lights which I,m going to hang, hope I like them. Thank you to all who responded to my poll, really appericate it. Aardvark Keep on buildin.
My new work area will be a 52" Husky roll around tool cabinet, plenty of drawers. Light is a 4’ LED shop light, and another LED desk type light. Painting is done in the open on the porch or at the shop at work, so no booth light issues.
Don: Thats what i just got found it at amazon $69.00 it has 90 leds in it made by circut test I really like it,nice and bright also has a magnafier in it.[2cnts] ACESES5