sctanton52

Mooty, its expensive but if you can switch to LED Highboys for your lights. No Buzz, they come on very quicly and cost less to operate. I going to switch over my Calgary Hanger in the next few months. My Hanger neighbour did it in the Fall, and the lighting is just great in his bay, much better than my MH's. I had Sodium Vapour and MH's in my wifes Greenhouse and we switched over to LEDs, much much nicer.

66Mustang, is your dad looking for any new sons? I clean up pretty well, a shave, a hair cut and some nice cloths, and I 'almost' look respectful. Love that light blue XKE, I think perhaps the most beautiful car ever made, even Enzo said that.

Birel22

AC SATCO will probably have some suggestions... Isnt he a LED/Lighting guy?

martinmp42

nuvolari612

Would be a small world if he is - used to own an electrical supply and lighting showrooms.

Mooty - check if there is an incentive energy saving program from your local utility company. Problem is you may have to fudge things and say they are on 24/7 to get an energy savings rebate.

If not and to save some money if the ballasts are good you can get away with only changing the light bulb and get the same light results as a new fixture.

LED's are brighter just make sure you get the right color rating.

http://www.lamp-plus.net/product_806...-e40-base.html

fastmd

Mooty, I struggled with lights and I ended up going with these commercial LED highbays and LED Cans. They are all 5000K color temperature with a 90+CRI rating. They are dead silent and are on dimmers.

My ceilings are 22'.

These 2 pics show them at about 70%. Each highbay is 18K lumens. I can forward the link if you want to the distributor, he is in CA.

I have no idea why the pics are sideways....

sctanton52

fastmd, nice lights! Oops, I said Highboy I meant Highbay, my bad.

I would also like the link, if you would be so kind.

Thanks.

nuvolari612

It's the way you took the picture - drop it in your photo's and it should auto correct.

Great looking garage - can't decide always wanted a big *** fan and now they make matching lights

https://store.bigasssolutions.com/fans/14ft

sctanton52

Hey martinmp42, nice collection!

mooty

thx guts
and i'll ping satco

JDHertz11

Bigass sent a couple of Mormon bikerider look alikes to me a year ago. I was interested in using their products in my 10,000sqft warehouse. Long story short, they kept pushing to send me product for the entire space (20+ fixtures) for free to try. I insisted on a written proposal which took weeks. They play the game to send you the product so you install it and then bill you a fairly high amount knowing that you won't want to remove and return the lights.

Same thing happened with the $10K high efficiency credit from FPL. Bigass claimed it was purely paperwork and that they would handle it. In the end, it would have ended up costing much more than I would have saved (using the $10K credit) if I would have to use the certified FPL installers. I bailed and rebuilt the MH that had blown ballasts. My tenant pays the electric bills anyway. No good deed goes unpunished!

mooty

^ yes, they did keep push products to me. but wasn't for trial. they just wanted me to buy the stuff.

AC saatco was great he set me up on my home garage light. wonderful
i emailed him. let see what he comes up with.

this man cave is costing me more than i want to spend. right when i NEED to buy two more cars.

murhphy is my best friend.

martinmp42

Thank you

911Königin

Besides their high price tags and luxury features, the homes share another ingredient: dramatic garages.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...-to-homes.html

32-car garage home for sale

http://www.dispatch.com/content/slid...for-sale-.html

nuvolari612

I have done a lot of energy credits it's very simple to do yourself thru the utility company - zero maintenance new lights etc but there has to be a good incentive program and where I live 12.00 LED light bulbs are free the credit is equal to the price of the bulb and even better on the 400w.

Only buying 10 or so lights and a fan and they are discounting 20% a good LED that may not look as good can be bought for 125.00 all day long so they really do make sense. FYI you could have stuck it to your tenant in CAM it's not a capital expense Those ballasts still use more electric than a new LED so amortize the cost over the length of the lease.

nuvolari612

Yes electrical distributor / showroom.

PM sent - sold out over a decade ago to my brother - sell him some products they have a separate energy division and he just bought his first Porsche.