Choose Atara's high-quality shop lights for efficient, bright, and versatile lighting solutions. Available in flush mount or suspended styles, with options including high bays, linear strips, and vapor tight fixtures. Perfect for commercial spaces such as garages, storage areas, and workshops.
FAQs About Shop Lights
What are shop lights?
Shop lights are a lighting solution designed to provide bright, focused light in wide areas. They are ideal for workshops and garage areas due to their durable construction and powerful illumination. Additionally, the adjustable design makes it easy to adjust the light to the different areas of your workspace.
What are the different types of shop lights?
Shop lights come in a variety of styles to suit your needs. Options include fluorescent and LED lights, each with their own benefits. Fluorescent lights are an economical choice, while LED lights offer better illumination and lower energy bills.
What are the qualities to look for in shop lights?
Shop lighting is designed to meet specific requirements for color rendering, brightness, and color temperature. Featuring a CRI of 80, output depending on the size of the space, and color temperature of 4000K (cool white) or 5000K (daylight), this lighting is optimal for shop lighting. Additionally, this lighting includes suspended or surface mounted installation capabilities, and reflectors to help direct the light downward.
What are some common applications for shop lights?
Shop lights provide bright, reliable illumination in indoor spaces such as garages, workshops, utility rooms, and basements. They emit large amounts of light over wide areas, making them an ideal choice for any location where task lighting is needed.
How to wire shop lights?
Depending on the type of shop lights you will be installing, there are several different ways they can be wired. The most common shop lights that are frequently used come with their own cord and plug, which allows them to be plugged into an existing outlet for power. Other types of shop lights will need to be hardwired, which means you will need to pull wire or run conduit from a power source over to each fixture for them to operate.
How to hang shop lights?
The two most common methods used to hang shop lights are suspension and surface mount. Choosing which method to go with comes down to personal preference and the type of space they will be installed in. To suspend a shop light, you will need to attach a power cord to one end of the fixture and use chain or aircraft cable for it to freely hang from the ceiling. If you choose to surface mount your shop light, you will need mounting screws and run the power into one of the knockouts that are located on the fixture's housing.
How many amps do LED shop lights draw?
The easiest way to determine how many amps LED shop lights will draw is by taking the total wattage of an individual fixture and dividing by the input voltage. For example, if you will be using a 40-watt fixture and the input voltage is 120V, the LED shop light would be drawing 0.33 amps.
How many lumens for shop lighting?
To determine how many lumens you will need for shop lighting will depend on the size of the space. As a general rule of thumb, you will need at least 1000 lumens of light output per 100 square foot of space. For example, if your total area is 5000 square feet, you will need at least 50000 lumens for adequate shop lighting.
How many LED shop lights do I need?
To determine how many LED shop lights you will need will depend on the overall size of your space and what type of work you will be performing. However, you can get a base line count of how many fixtures you will need by taking the square footage of the entire space and allocating 1000 lumens of light output per 100 sq foot. For example, if your shop is 10000 square feet and the LED shop lights you will be installing provide 2000 lumens worth of light output each, you will need a total of at least five fixtures.
How to daisy chain shop lights?
There are two ways that you can daisy chain shop lights. The first and most commonly used method is by running wire or conduit between each fixture. The second and newest method is using inline connectors. These connectors allow the power to flow from one shop light to the next and so on until you reach the last fixture.
How to hardwire a shop light?
To hardwire a shop light will depend on the type of fixture you have. If you have a plug in shop light, you will need to remove the plug on the end of the cord that is attached to the fixture. Then you will need to feed those wires into a junction box and connect them to the black (hot), white (neutral) and green (ground) wires. If you have a shop light without a cord and plug, you will need to run electrical wire from an existing junction box to the fixture and connect it to the fixture's LED driver.
How to install LED shop lights?
There are several different installation options for LED shop lights depending on which type you have. If you have a plug in LED shop light the process is simple, you mount the fixture and plug it into an existing electrical outlet. If you have a hardwired LED shop light, first you will need to run power to the fixture from an existing switch and junction box.
How to flush mount shop lights?
If you're looking to mount shop lights flush to the ceiling, you need to follow a few simple steps.
Turn off the power to area where the fixture is being installed.
Remove the cover pan from the fixture to expose the mounting holes and internal wiring.
Use the mounting hardware that comes with the shop light fixture to secure it flush against the ceiling.
Then make all the necessary wiring connections and turn the power back on to the area.
How to install linkable LED shop lights?
When it comes to installing linkable LED shop lights, you need to follow a few simple steps.
Turn off the power to area where the fixtures are being installed.
Starting with the first LED shop light that is receiving power, remove the cover pan from the fixture to expose the internal wiring.
Connect the incoming electrical wire to the LED driver located inside of the fixture.
Replace the bottom cover pan.
Attach the inline connector that comes with your fixture to the opposite end of where the power is coming in and connect it to the next LED shop light in line.
Repeat this connection process until you get to the last fixture in the series.
After all wiring and connections have been made you need to turn the power back on to the area.
What gauge wire for LED shop lights?
Choosing what gauge wire for LED shop lights you should use depends on what the voltage of power that is going to be used to power each fixture. Typically, we recommend using 12-gauge wire to prevent voltage drops that can result in longer runs. It's also important to check with your local municipality to ensure that you will be meeting electrical code requirements.
What advantages do LED shop lights provide?
LED shop lights deliver superior illumination with lower energy costs. The LED technology reduces energy cost by up to 80%, compared with other lighting solutions, and long-lasting bulbs emit bright light that is evenly distributed throughout the workspace. LED shop lights are an economical yet dependable lighting solution.
