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philward:
One of the things that I find very frustrating when working on my bikes (particularly in winter when I can't wheel the bikes out onto the drive to work on them) is 'shadows' cast in the area from the garage lights exactly on the area of the bike where I am working.
I've tried a variety of lamps/lights/torches - magnetic, flexible and clip on, etc but never really solved the problem.
Whats your recommendations? (as Christmas is comomg - and link to that Christmas present thread)
Thanks
Phil

Skoti:
Phil,

you may want to start by replacing your garage lights with LED strip lamps.

I bought some on fleabay and after fitting them my garage is as bright as an operating theatre, good saving on energy compared to the old lights as well...

Hope this enlightens you!

Skoti

 

philward:
Thanks Skoti - I have 3 x 1800mm double tube lights in my 10m x 2m garage that provides loads of overall light, its working 'in or under' the bike where I struggle. Its more to do with a light that I can clip on somewhere or a decent 'head torch'?

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I replaced all of my old twin tube 6 ft florescents with a similar number of  twin LED 5 ft LED's they put out about three times the Lunatics of very high frequency bright white light. I mean Lumens of course but lunatics reflects the conversion cost. Not that much cheaper to run than florescent so payback time will be about 10 years when they are buggered- good news is they keep on coming down in cost!

I have found the LED lead lamps do not work very well - I have a small Maglite  with an LED bulb conversion to find dropped nuts etc. Another thing I have found is that the lights need to be mounted high and double banked to avoid shadows. You get what you pay for in terms of good light diffusion and design - I have found the wider LED layout better than the half round design of some cheaper arrays. Knightsbridge are excellent but pricey so they are only in  our house!

imho

philward:
Thanks Ted. I need something that allows me to use both hands - so I think (as I've tried clip on/magnetic), I'll look at a decent head torch

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