Moving and building a shop

I know I could personally build a 24' x 24' building without a kit for a TON less money that 8-11K not including concrete. Not sure of your carpentry skills but you may look into building it yourself. know could personally have a 24 x 24 100% dried in with just one helping hand and most of that would be needed on the roof in 4 days or less.
 
As for lighting definitely LED. Actually our local Sams is selling 4' LED strip lights that are awesome for $35.00 each. They have a 5 year guarantee and incredibly bright. The DOWNSIDE is they are strictly cord and plug and can't be converted to direct wire. So as such they have to be hung with the chain that they come with. For the price I just cut the plug off and ran into my existing ceiling boxes.
 
They make "hybrid" LED tubes that fit directly into many existing fluorescent style ballasts (or can be direct wired sans ballast) as well as full fixtures that look like a tube and ballast setup but are just a housing for LED strips. If you're building from scratch, I'd probably go with something similar to the latter, although they can be a little pricey.
Been thinking about upgrading my shop lights as well.
 
Personally I'd been very hesitant to buy the bulb type LED's that do away with the ballast and use existing 120v on existing tomb stones. Your putting a bulb with exposed ends into 120v tombstones between usually tightly enclosed metal ends. Better never forget to turn the light off before installing that type!
 
LCoop said:
Personally I'd been very hesitant to buy the bulb type LED's that do away with the ballast and use existing 120v on existing tomb stones. Your putting a bulb with exposed ends into 120v tombstones between usually tightly enclosed metal ends. Better never forget to turn the light off before installing that type!
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The average ballast takes 120/240vac anyway, and the output at the pins will be around 600 volts under normal fluorescent tube operation, if I'm not mistaken; the ballast itself being mostly to limit current to 1 or 2 amps (IIRC).

I agree that changing any bi-pin (or similar) bulb without cutting power first, is a poor idea, and I just might be speaking from experience(s). :D
 
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