Workshop Led Strip Lighting.
I'm planning to go off-grid with the workshop lighting, what I've got in mind is to run led strips across the bottom of the roof trusses and then add a few extra hanging lights over work benches and machines.
The solar panels will be 2x 250 watt 24v panels ( same as used in a typical grid connect system ), 24v 200 ah battery and solar regulators..
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Originally Posted by
FenceFurniture
Yes please Ray. Bobl & Geoff Sims have some good input on this as well, so it'd be great to start a dedicated thread. Bob found that he ended up disappointed with his LED system (too dim), and Geoff's doesn't look bright enough for general use either (but excellent in his chosen application). Then you end up with too many strips (and more $$) to get the required illumination level blah blah.
Maybe you're looking at some higher output strips than they are? Not sure that we can compare them either - your talking lumens and they're talking watts (IIRC).
Lumens.. Watts.. Lux... all very confusing, I no longer have any sort of feel for how bright a light globe is, the experience is based on the old incandescent globes, but the wattage ratings on the newer CFL and LED globes I just don't have a "feel" for how bright they really are..
So, Lumens is possibly a better yardstick than watts, I know how bright a 100 watt tungsten filament globe is.. so my rule of thumb is that a 100W tungsten filament light globe is about 1600 lumens, a 36" typical fluro tube is about 2800 lumens.
The led strips i'm getting are Ultra Bright 5M 12V 300 LED 5050 SMD Flexible Pure White Strip Light Waterproof | eBay which are supposed to be 780-900 lumens per meter, so that's roughly equivalent to a 60 watt incandescent for every meter.
Solar panels, not sure which supplier as yet, but my backup supplier is this one Solar Panels 24V
There is a heap of 188 watt solar panels on Gray's at the moment, but it's pickup only in Tasmania... :no:
Regards
Ray
Thanks for the heads up Brett
I'm watching this one too as I want to do some led lights too