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03-21-2018, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collinsville, IL
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Originally Posted by RONSIM
They do provide good light ---- but noisy!
Ron
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Thanks. I guess I'll find out this weekend when I get them installed. There are always trade-offs!
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03-21-2018, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RONSIM
They do provide good light ---- but noisy!
Ron
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Just get yourself an oilless air compressor-------you will never notice the light noise 
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03-21-2018, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Brookfield, WI
Posts: 81
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Lots of Light
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Originally Posted by Av8rRob
Ok lighting geniuses, help me out here. I have a 40? x 50? hangar / workshop that needs an entirely new light system. How do these lights look?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithonia...L-MV/203812710
I can find them on amazon for about $160 each and Im thinking about mounting 3 along each side of the hangar.
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I installed 6 of them in my 40 X 40 hanger. Lots of light and I?m very happy with them. I have them on 3 switches so I can turn on a pair at a time. I purchased mine at Menards when they had a 11% sale plus they had a special that if you bought 5 or more at a time they discounted the price another $10 per fixture.
I?m very happy with the way it turned out and would do it again.
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03-24-2018, 08:34 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rescue, CA. KROB
Posts: 352
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So I just checked on craigslist and found these 6 lights 5 minutes away. Any ideas how well they would light up a 40 x 50 hangar?
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/ma...525855370.html
Obviously I know nothing about lighting. Im sure these would use more electricity than the leds but for the price its probably worth it if they would work.
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03-24-2018, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
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Rob------where did you get a hangar?
I bought a bunch of 4' two bulb LED shop lights at Costco for our new hangar, good light output and color. As I recall, $20 each on sale.
The lights in your link might use a ton of juice, and have pretty expensive bulbs when it is time to replace one------check them out well before spending the $$.
How goes the 14?
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03-24-2018, 09:03 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pocahontas MS
Posts: 3,884
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I've got four similar units (same metal halide lamp, different fixture) in a 48x50 hangar. Reasonable light; not great color accuracy. Six in a 40x50 should be very bright.
I put them up about 20 years ago because they were free. They are 'good enough'. The biggest downside to lights like these is the startup time; they take several minutes to get to full brightness. Unless you basically live in the hangar, bulb life will come close to your lifespan (unless the bulbs in those fixtures were very high time when pulled down). The nice thing is, if you like the fixtures, you can now buy LED bulbs to fit those sockets. If a bulb dies, just wire around the ballast (simple to do) and screw in the LED.
As to power consumption, its fairly simple to look up the lumens of a 250w metal halide lamp & it's in the specs of most LED shop lamps. Just do the math compared to LEDs. Commercial operations are replacing halide with LEDs because they typically operate them almost around the clock. If you're only in the hangar a few hours a week, the math is very different.
Charlie
edit: those do look like 'high bay' reflectors; how high is your ceiling?
Last edited by rv7charlie : 03-24-2018 at 09:08 AM.
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03-24-2018, 09:10 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: St Louis, MO
Posts: 957
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LED Hangar lights
I picked up some LED lights from Sam’s Club for the hangar and have been very happy with them. No noise, bright light, easy to install and you can link them together.
https://www.samsclub.com/sams/linkab...lp:product:1:3
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03-24-2018, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Battleground
Posts: 4,348
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This might help.
http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...olor+rendering
There is a LOT of bad and misinformation on most of the hangar lighting posts here at VAF.
Don?t bother taking the time to install these fixtures. They are old technology and simply not worth installing.
Yes, the ?bulbs? last a long long time, in that they will put out light but the lumen output depreciates greatly over the life of the lamp.
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03-24-2018, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,768
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Originally Posted by olyolson
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I've had a bunch of these in my shop and both hangars for about a year now and love them.
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03-24-2018, 10:10 AM
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been here awhile
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Alabama
Posts: 4,301
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Originally Posted by olyolson
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Slight digression here but I replaced all the 4' fluorescent tubes in my 24x24 shop with LEDs similar to what is in the above fixtures. It is a huge improvement over the old tubes which I had a hard time getting all burning at the same time. I bought 20 tubes via eBay for ~$100, rewired the fixtures to bypass the ballasts and am very happy with the results. I'm thinking about something similar for the hangar and am finding this thread useful.
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