[s-cars] NAC - Dream Garage Ceiling and Wall materialrecommendation

[Peter Schulz]

Lee:

You may also want to consider GFCIs instead of regular frounded outlets, or 
a local fusebox in lieu of that long walk to the basement when that 15 or 
20 amp power tool actually draws more than that on startup.

Best thing that I did was to put a 60 amp sub panel in the barn  - ready 
for 220 V if I need it, and yes, my Craftsman 175 psi compressor does 
occasionally trip the breaker.



-Peter



At 07:41 AM 3/9/2005, Lee Levitt wrote:
>I think you're right.
>
>I'm going to talk with my electrician about twin 8' fixtures near the wall
>(will illuminate whether the garage door is open or closed) and another in
>the middle, either parallel to the others or perhaps perpendicular at the
>front of the garage to illuminate the engine bay. Then some more 4 or 8'
>fixtures by my bench.
>
>Most of my real work is done with one car in the middle of the garage, so
>having lights on each side (and one above) makes sense to me.
>
>Lee
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:28 PM
> > To: lee at wheelman.com
> > Cc: Walsh, Edward; Joe Pizzimenti; s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC - Dream Garage Ceiling and Wall
> > materialrecommendation
> >
> > Lee- that might barely be enough, seriously, if you're talking about real
> > light.
> >
> > I have a twin 4' fixture basically right above the hood of each car in
> > the 2 car garage, another fixture right above the utility sink, the
> > plain old stupid 60W lightbulb in the center of the garage and the
> > twin bulbs in the garage door opener. With all of these lights lit,
> > it's not enough to comfortably work on a car at night or with the door
> > closed.
> >
> > Ideally, I'd want two more 4' twin bulb fixtures for above each car as
> > well as some way to illuminate at foot level- lighting sunk into the
> > concrete would be ideal for this, don't know how to accomplish that. I
> > think with some work lights and my 4-tube drop light, that might
> > suffice for the lack of in-floor lighting.
> >
> > So what I'm trying to say is that having about 10 fluorescent 4' long
> > tubes is barely enough for a two car garage.
> >
> > If I were to do it again, rather than having fixtures that run across
> > the width of the garage, I'd have duplexed twin-tube industrial
> > fixtures that run lengthwise front to back in the garage ceiling
> > (total 8ft. length of fixture), two just off from the walls and two
> > spaced equally in the remaining width of the garage. That would give
> > awesome coverage from above and hopefully give enough wall reflection
> > off of the white-painted drywall so that you wouldn't need a ton of
> > lighting down low.
> >
> > This might happen anyway, because the garage is not wired with enough
> > electrical capacity as it stands- if I want to run an air compressor
> > and some other stuff, I'll want to add at least 3 30amp circuits and
> > rewire the existing outlets to use the additional circuits.
> >
> > Taka
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:42:14 -0500, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Funny we're talking about garages...I had an electrician in yesterday to
> > > scope out, among other things, sufficient light for the garage.
> > >
> > > Mine's a two car attached and right now it has 1 decent sized
> > fluorescent
> > > fixture. I'm replacing it with two 4' twin bulb fixtures near the front
> > of
> > > the garage, another in the middle of the garage and 1 more toward the
> > back
> > > over my workbench.
> >
>
>
>
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