Lighting the Small Workshop - by Jack Lindsey

[Jack Lindsey]

Good questions, Steve. If your walls and ceiling are a light color, you have typical middle aged eyes with no severe uncorrected visual problems, and are doing common woodworking things like building furniture, cabinets, and some carving then 50 lamps should be fine. As far as the orientation of the rows goes there is no hard and fast rule so using 10 rows of two 8' 4 lamp fixtures and one 2 lamp 4' fixture per row running along the 24' dimension should be fine.

This is based on 32 watt T-8 lamps and following the general recommendations in the article. Let me know if the parameters are different and I'll modify the recommendation if necessary.