I have researched a ton, and read the sticky article posted here, among many others, about how to best light my shop. I feel that some of the recommendations are over the top as far as required lighting levels, but have tried to consider them and incorporate a couple stages of lighting to allow for more/less as needed desired in case I'm wrong or my needs change over time.
Anyway,
I'm in the process of building a new shop, and wondering what people think of this lighting plan. Its based on 4' LED strip lights, probably about 3200 lumens at 4000K, or something similar. Basing that off some Commercial Electric ones I've used from HD, but am open to other suggestions.
White lights in the pic I was thinking would be the main lighting circuit, with the grey ones on a separate switch, so I could do higher or lower level of light as desired, but without getting too complicated with the wiring, etc.
I thought wrapping the entire room with strips would give a nice pleasing wall wash and make all wall workspaces well and evenly lit. I also took the sides further into the corners than just making a box, to try to avoid a dark corner.
Think all relevant dimensions are marked in the pic, other than that the ceilings will be 9' high, and the perimeter lights are at 3' from the walls.
Also, this is a 2nd floor above a garage (urban area, only way to get a decent space and we really need the garage for cars - crazy I know)... so there is no concern of dust collection piping getting in the way of closely spaced lights. It will be run inside the floor trusses and come up through the floor to each machine, with cyclone in the back corner of garage.
Any thoughts, suggestions, etc from the more experienced out there? This will be my first proper shop space, want to get it as close to perfect as possible from the get go. Nice thing with these kind of lights is they're plug in and use linking cords, so can be rearranged a bit as necessary - but would be nice to get something that works well from the beginning.
Thanks everyone!