How to Choose the Best lighting for Your Workshop Area?

The working area is an important area for people activities indoor for a long time. That is important to choose a good lighting system. First, we consider several factorsmin the production workshop lighting system:

  • Lighting Source Type

fluorescent and led lamp

The choice of fluorescent lamps and LED lamps is particularly common. Traditional fluorescent lamps are illuminated by phosphors, which generates thermal energy, meanwhile can causes energy consumption. LED lamp is all converted into light energy, which will not cause energy consumption, its life time reach more than 50,000 hours, which is 4-5 times that of most fluorescent lamps. Therefore, we choose LED lights as the light source of the workshop lighting system in the workshop. It would be a wise choice.

  • Color temperature

5000K color temperature tube light

Normal LED lamp color temperature is between 2500K-6500K, the production workshop requires stronger light. Higher color temperature can stimulate the hormones of the human body, people have a more concentrated mental state, and will not cause work negligence due to fatigue. Related research shows that the color temperature range of 4500K-5000K will be a better color temperature in the production workshop area.
If the color temperature is too high, reach above 5500K, people may feel uncomfortable under high intensity white light for a long time. Easy to cause visual fatigue.
Maybe we need another leisure workshop area, it is recommended to be below 4000K, then the eyes will get a temporary rest.

  • Color rendering index

LED lamps CRI(color rendering index)

If your workshop job requires you to actually see the color (such as wood coatings and stains, automotive coatings, etc.), always check the color rendering index (CRI) rating of the bulb before buying. A rating of 85 or higher is best for authentic colors. Our products basically meet the standard, there is no need to worry about the color rendering index.

  • Installation type

Working in the workshop, not only requires high intensity light, but uniform light output. Panel lights and lamps are wildly used. It depends on the structure of the workshop interior. The ceiling of the ordinary production workshop is not so high, and don't need other special requirements, the installation method of the panel light will be easier. Surface or recessed. The batten strip light  is suitable for a large area of ​​the workshop, we can use the line to hang the light tube, not only the light output is uniform, the lighting effect is also very good.

panel light suitable for workshop

 

strip batten antiseptic light for large workshop area

  • Lumen

In principle, the higher the lumen (unit of luminous flux), the better. It requires increase LED packaging technology or the current to achieve it. It is not wise choice to blindly increasing the luminous flux, it will bring negative effects: 

  1. Higher current will speed up the light decline.
  2. Color rendering will decrease.

Light attenuation and color rendering are important reference indicators for lamps. In addition, the high luminous flux of lamps is closely related to the use environment. Generally, the home lighting does not need too high lumens, but the production workshop needs high luminous flux LED light sources.