Garage Mod #4: let there be light!

[scheides]

I am sick of using trouble lights for every little thing. Since apparently I get to do another HG job on my car in the near future, I decided to finally get this done. Total cost about $80 for fixtures w/ ballasts, bulbs, and wiring. Took about 2 hours, easy peasy.

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I positioned the lights so they'd be right over the open hood of a car as its parked in the garage. Even leaning way over and reaching down into the engine bay (blocking light with my body) I could still clearly see 10x better than before. I sat down on the futon to admire my work and noticed that there's so much light now that the shiny stuff under my hood illuminates the underside of the hood!

[Swifty1638]

dude, drive to my place sometime and borrow my spotlight if you want..in exchange though, I wanna test those hood struts out!

[Halon]

Nice. I've thought about doing this sometime as well. Right now I just have 2 200W bulbs that do light things up pretty nice, but the car has to be backed up damn near to the garage door to have it so the hood isn't blocking the light.

[Swifty1638]

ya, that's why my floor spotlight is aimed at the car. Over winter it also gave off heat, keeping me warm lol. I didn't realize it had hi-beams too!

This is it:http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100655355&N=10000003+90401+501093

[Kracka]

Looks great; can't wait to try them out :D

[scheides]

Screw the spotlight! I have massive speakers and a futon taking up floor space :)

The coolest thing about these lights are how they provide just tons and tons of AMBIENT light. The walls and ceiling are all painted white, light just gets reflected everwhere. Fuking sucks actually, I can see spots deep in the back of my engine bay that are dirty as fok! Now I will feel obligated to clean them!

[Kracka]

Next project: Lighted glass blocks in the garage floor!

[slowbubblecar]

Next project: Lighted glass blocks in the garage floor!

hmmm, if I was still messing with cars all the time, that would be tempting.

[awd-drifter]

Next project: Lighted glass blocks in the garage floor!

do it!!

LED garage floor?!
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[cmspaz]

Next project: Lighted glass blocks in the garage floor!
They'd have to be angled and off to the side so he's not just throwing the cardboard over them. Regardless, do it!