I never had any trouble with cold using two of the cheap 2 bulb 4"
florescent strips (the $10 ones) in my garage in Houston. They always
fired right up and gave good light coverage in the two car bays, The
same, so far, here in Dallas, where it actually can get cold.
I had other lights over my work area, but they were incandescent then.
I recently switched to compact florescent in those fixtures, but
they aren't getting used in the cold enough to rate them one way or
the other, plus the area is MUCH smaller. I miss the size of my old
garage
Patton
On 1/8/07, Lee Daniels <lee@automate-it.com> wrote:
>
> I know this has been addressed in the past - but the available hardware keeps
> changing and I just want to make sense of it all:
>
> Here are the parameters:
>
> o I want a lot of light, fluorescent tubes preferred.
> o Temperatures here (Houston area) don't often get below freezing, but I do
> want good light in cold weather.
> o I want high quality fixtures but replacement tubes that are economical to
> run and replace.
>
> So I keep looking at Home Depot and Lowe's and there are 4' and 8' options,
> there are 'regular' and 'high output (HO)' options, there are T8 and T12
> options, there color temperature options (I think I want "daylight", i.e. high
> color temperature). The HO lighting is, I believe, the best when the
> temperature gets low. The T8 tubes are apparently more efficient. The 4' tubes
> seem to be less expensive in the long run, but I'm not sure.
>
> But mainly I just want to spread a lot of light around in the garage/shop.
>
> Comments?
> - Lee
>
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