Garage Lighting and Heating (China Diesel Heater?)

dlockers

dlockers

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Hi folks,

I currently have about 14 tube lights in my workshop. I think they use a bunch of electricity but I've never tested.

I'm thinking of replacing with either LED battens or those fancy hexagon lights.

I'm also thinking of a basic 100 quid china diesel heater to blast heat in. Has anyone bought a specific one they'd recommend?

Can anyone give any guidance?
 
dlockers said:
Hi folks,

I currently have about 14 tube lights in my workshop. I think they use a bunch of electricity but I've never tested.

I'm thinking of replacing with either LED battens or those fancy hexagon lights.

I'm also thinking of a basic 100 quid china diesel heater to blast heat in. Has anyone bought a specific one they'd recommend?

Can anyone give any guidance?
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See my thread for the diesel heater side of things. I have a MAXPEDINGRODS but they are 99.9999% the same with really only the control units that differ very slightly between them.

As for lighting, I have a smaller garage than you at ~36sqm but I have 5 40W LED panels (cheapish from Amazon) and the room is as bright as I could ever realistically want it! I had flourescent tubes in there before and I did give some thought to just replacing the tubes with drop-in LED replacements but they still look naff. The panels look far smarter in any case.
 
DRZ said:
See my thread for the diesel heater side of things. I have a MAXPEDINGRODS but they are 99.9999% the same with really only the control units that differ very slightly between them.

As for lighting, I have a smaller garage than you at ~36sqm but I have 5 40W LED panels (cheapish from Amazon) and the room is as bright as I could ever realistically want it! I had flourescent tubes in there before and I did give some thought to just replacing the tubes with drop-in LED replacements but they still look naff. The panels look far smarter in any case.
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Thanks - I keep meaning to read through this. I guess they are all much of a muchess. I was looking at this:

The MAXPEDINGRODS ones all seem to be 12v?

I see you mention smell - is that the heater itself stinking the place up? That is a disappointing bit of news if so! It'll be a gym, so kerosene sickness not ideal :cry:

Lightwise - I hadn't considered the panels. Is it just trial and error to find placement/did you apply any "planning"?

I was looking at these things, but no idea w.r.t lumens etc:

I would probably need x3 though for the full workshop (37sqm).
 
Kero smell is 99.9% from the tank. There is no smell of fuel whatsoever from the hot air output and nor could there be unless there is a fault with the unit. The tanks have a vent/breather in the cap if you keep the factory tank, if you don't use that you'll have a vent on whatever tank you do use (or it won't work...). Kerosene smells a lot worse than diesel to my nose (it is both more unpleasant and generates more vapour than diesel, it seems).


As for the lights, I used to have the same panels in my old garage so I knew how much throw they had etc. The ones I have are here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07WK8NJWJ (and I lied when I said they were 40W as they are clearly 48W!). These are ~1.2m in from each wall in the corners of the garage, making them more central than not. They are bright enough and have a decent enough CRI that it is actually quite a pleasant light to work in. I do all sorts of tinkering with things in my garage, the sort of thing that need good light and not once ever have I thought "oh ffs I wish I had more/better/different light in here".
 
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