Having a professional do your lighting is worth it. There's nothing worse than trying to work in a poorly lit space. It's not as cheap as a Home Depot job but you will get quality lighting with the right amount of wattage, color corrected, arranged correctly for your workspace, etc.. No hum, no flicker, no buzz and instant on to boot. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Erwinspiano at aol.com Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:53 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: workshop set-up In Hi Dean The lighting in this shop are high output fluorescent with color corrected bulbs. What a difference & they do not buzz. The fixtures (125.00) are available at commercial lighting stores as well as the bulbs. Not cheap but good light is everything. Dale Another consideration is lighting. I invested in several 8' double fluorescent fixtures. They cost close to $100 each with the bulbs and they buzz. I would not do this again. I would use the screw in compact fluorescent bulbs. You can get them with 200 watt equivalent light output for about $8/bulb. Add the cost of a plastic fixture, about $1.50, and you've got less than $10 per fixture. They don't buzz and 2 of them put out more light for less energy consumption and a whole lot less money. They also sell a version of them in a dusk to dawn fixture with 400 watt equivalent for about $50. I haven't played with any of those. _____ Start the year off right. Easy <http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489> ways to stay in shape in the new year. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080105/03f763e4/attachment.html
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