garage lighting

[NiteW4tcher]

hey guys and gals

id like your suggestions on the best way of getting adequate lighting into my garage.

the garage is rented from a housing company, it has no power of its own and im very limited to being able to modify the garage.

with the nights being long and dark i need a feasible way of getting some lighting in there.

obviously i could buy a generator but its under flats ect and id rather not piss the locals off having a genny running all time :-/

knowing the area its in id probably be missing a garage door and bike by the morning!!

im thinking high powered torches ...or is there someway i can rig something to run off of a few car batterys?

throw your ideas in the pot please

thanks

Dan

[Swanny]

You can get some very good LED flood lights that are cheap to run

[NiteW4tcher]

You can get some very good LED flood lights that are cheap to run

battery powered?

[Swanny]

Yea I saw some in tool hire shop
Have a look on the screwfix site they may have some

[NiteW4tcher]

cool had a hunt about and your right there are some pretty decent lights

[Mitch9128]

Have a look at the cree floods on Ebay, i have some cree xml t6 single lights and they are awesome, imagine the flood light ones would be great running off a car battery.

[thespirit3]

Before I ran mains to my garage I used a 12V gel cell battery (or, you could use a spare motorcycle or car battery) and a 12V florescent tube with bayonet fitting hung from the ceiling. The bayonet fitting means a standard 240V lamp base/holder can be used - search ebay for "12V 20 Watt DC Fluorescent Bayonet" to see the type of light I mean

Assume current of about 2A for one light. So, a 20AH motorcycle battery would theoretically power it constantly for 10 hours. However, in reality you should never fully discharge the battery - so I'd charge it after 5 hours of use (or carry the battery with you and leave on charge whenever not in use).

Alternatively, as others have suggested, LED lighting may be a good option. Again, I'd get a 12V solution and run it from a spare motorcyle/car battery.

[jonnydangerous]

hello mate! you can use a car battery, and on Ebay, there are LED headlamp bulbs! H7 H1 etc.......
thats the way id go......cheap as chips :-)

p.s. hows my CDI repair, still going????.......hope so!!!

[Conehead]

Candle power works if you dont need to see much and you dont mind the fire risk.

[NiteW4tcher]

hello mate! you can use a car battery, and on Ebay, there are LED headlamp bulbs! H7 H1 etc.......
thats the way id go......cheap as chips :-)

p.s. hows my CDI repair, still going????.......hope so!!!

hey dude

your repair is still holding up............the bike is still under going her full rebuild but way on her way to being back on road