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Re: New LEGO room
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Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:32:33 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, David Gregory wrote:
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Very nice. I didn’t see any pics that showed the ceiling, so I must ask,
what kind of lighting do you have?
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The original basement room used recessed lighting. I separated the 4 POTS that
are now in the LEGO room from the rest of the basement and threw a separate
switch on them. At the same time I was able to add plugs along the new wall.
I found a 4’ flourescent housing at a garage sale last summer for 50 cents and
mounted it right above my work area, which adds additional lighting to where I
do most of my work.
There are shadows at points when I’m retrieving stuff from the bins, but thus
far that hasn’t really impacted finding things--usually I bring the entire bin
to the work area where it’s well lit.
Going forward I may add lighting to the room but for now, is ok.
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I recently organized my LEGO building room. My parts bins are quite
different than yours, but their placement along the perimeter of the wall is
very similar. The problem I have with my lighting is that I have a single
dome light fixture in the center of the ceiling. Anywhere I stand in the
room to get parts out of a bin, I create a shadow on what I’m looking at.
(The building table is in the middle of the room, so I have good lighting
when actually building something.)
I plan on having 2 sets of fluorescent
lights (each set/fixture uses two 4’ 32 watt lights) installed soon; one near
each end of the ceiling. Hopefully this will give me the kind of light I
want.
David Gregory
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I do appreciate flourescent tubes, but I might have to get a more ‘natural’
lighting method because the greys/bleys blend together in flourescent lighting
(at least for me anyway)
Thanks for checking!
Dave K
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| (...) I really like the layout of the Lego room. Very well organized. One comment on flourescent lighting... I had some Lego sets on display at work many years ago. I decided to take them home when I noticed that the flourescent lighting in the (...) (12 years ago, 1-Nov-12, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| Very nice. I didn't see any pics that showed the ceiling, so I must ask, what kind of lighting do you have? I recently organized my LEGO building room. My parts bins are quite different than yours, but their placement along the perimeter of the wall (...) (12 years ago, 31-Oct-12, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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