The Lamp Room

So we`re re-vamping our stores, and me and Ken had a discussion this morning about lighting.
When its done, there will be 4 sets of racking with a metre distance between them, and 10 foot long bays, lighting the bays, Ken suggests LED, stores boss Tim suggests down lights, but I suggest 2, 4 foot singles in HF down each bay, as Tim dosen`t want it blinding, but just enough to see on the shelves.

What do you reckon, I like my idea best!!

I'd go fluorescent, but switch-start fittings with electronic starters....

Switch start 4' battens

SS is too dear to buy here now, its cheaper to buy HF!!, the price of SS have been hiked the same as 8 foots and SOX, to try and stop people buying them!!

That's just your wholesaler rich, I can still get SS from senate cheaper than HF

Yeah, Electric Centre!, I want 4 foots over LED, or any other, as we have about 10 boxes of new 4 foot tubes in 835 and 840 in our spares stock.

I'd still go for SS over HF

Have to agree with Kev here, switch-start is the best option by far. If you can't get em from your usual supplier, time to try somewhere else!

In my tunnels at the weekend I fitted the lights in the number 6, 2 of the lights had no ballasts as I had removed them it took a brand new ballast and 2 second hand ones to get a good working one!

Well we`re almost done in here, I`m going for a total of 12 four foot twins, (3 in each isle), on 2 circuits of 6, we`ve just got to wait for the fire guys who are re-wiring the fire system, with new smoke detectors and call points, then we can start to board the ceiling up.
We have 3 crappy LED battens lashed up at the minute but the stores is like a dark tunnel in places!
With 24 36watt 840 Philips TLD masters, we will get a nice 82,800 lumen level when finished.