Need advice....

[Mkelcy]

On lighting, one end of my pole barn is set up as a 30' x 17.5' shop with 11.5' ceilings. When I bought the place, it had six incandescent light fixtures on the ceiling which were pretty inadequate. I thought I'd have to redo the lighting with long tube fluorescent fixtures. Until then, though, I wanted to improve the lighting.



I recently discovered some 4,000 lumen CFLs at Home Depot that screw into my existing fixtures, and the six of them are equivalent to having about 16, 100 watt bulbs in the shop. They are close to instant on, but not at full brightness - once they get going though it's very bright in there.