New shop.........."build"

[dontlifttoshift]

My shop is 15.5' to the ceiling and the highbays didn't work out for me. No matter what we had shadows that I hated. It's too much light from one source and at a 14' ceiling height you will have even less spread than I did. They aren't servicable so when one fails you have to replace the whole thing........and it probably won't match the ones you have. After 7 years with those I had replaced about half of them. (these are on about 50 hours a week) At that point I just replaced them all with T8 fixtures with LED tubes. The light is much more even, I can swap a bulb on a ladder without any tools, and it wasn't anymore money in materials than the high bays.

It's a lot of fixtures to put up but it will go fast on a scissor lift in an empty shop.



I have one Hunter Industrial fan and it's awesome. I need some more. Also be sure to plan your fan placement so that it doesn't cover the lights, that can be super irritating.

There is gobs of information here. https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/...ctions.289441/