Caff's Garage Lighting is in, and the 'detailing bay' is now open for business :p

[Caffeine Fiend]

vAs some know I've been obsessing over my garage lighting for some time for my detailing work.

Today my lights finally went in. They consist of:

Dual bank flouros mounted on each side:



And two of these bad boys mounted on tracks. Metal Halide lights capable of putting out over 4000 lux a piece (the average office is lit to 400 lux) One spot and one spread. The track mount makes them adjustable for position up and down, as well as the swivel/tilt adjust on the light and control gear itself:



Left side:


Right side:


Overall:


Metal Halide closeup:


With my very dirty car parked in the garage:




So for all those wonderfully patient people who wanted to get their cars detailed but were waiting for me to get off my arse and install the lights...... we're rockin now


Dan

[Yeldarb]

Sicko

Kidding. I'm just jealous. Awesome setup. But you realize you have just added hours to your detailing.

So the idea is, you have 2 spotties and 2 flood lights.

Pricey? Did you partner certify it? 

[Caffeine Fiend]

Fully partner certified . In fact, she specced the lights (she's a lighting specialist)

Price wise, the flouros were cheap domestic grade with daylight correction tubes (off eBay actually). The metal halides were wholesale through my wife's lighting contacts, but they're commercial grade Concord lights from the UK so even at wholesale they weren't cheap. All up including fitting it came to roughly a couple of grand or so

The metal halides are unbelievable. Once they warm up (about 5 mins) they're like focusable daylight. I made the mistake of glancing directly at one while taking the photos and saw spots for the next two minutes

Unlike halogens they emit far less heat too. After they've been on for 20 mins I can still touch them to reposition the light. No way you'd be able to do that with halogen. You'd burn your hand off


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[Leelu]

Awesome Dan

Pity you don't live in Brisbane

[Jmac]

when im down there in aug you will have the pleasure of cleaning my dirty AB 3 danksi

[Caffeine Fiend]

Cheers Linda

when im down there in aug you will have the pleasure of cleaning my dirty AB 3 danksi

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[mech81]

Hey, Nice setup!! Did u end up going with the Electrician Brown?

[nsayn]

You should also get one of these for checking out those hard to reach places: FireSword V. 3000 handheld lumens - pretty sweet

[Caffeine Fiend]

Thanks Dennis

We ended up going with a contact of one if my wife's co-workers. He was able to work within my timeframe (and he'll do me a cashy deal on the side )

You should also get one of these for checking out those hard to reach places: FireSword V. 3000 handheld lumens - pretty sweet

I've heard a lot of detailers using these types of military style spot lights for inspection work. I need to do a bit more research before buying though. Thanks for the link


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[naasif]

Very cool setup

Did I miss the bit where you went from detailing hobby to obsession ?