Lighting for work bench!

[OceanandEarth]

Hi all, my work bench is positioned in the darkest part of my small cottage in an old fireplace inglenook with an over hang so I need to add some artificial light. I’ve been looking at Led lights. Does anyone use Led lights are these bright enough, you can buy them with a controller so you can control the intensity and I like that they are small and will be hidden. I thought fluorescent bulbs would be too intense and the wrong colour. Also the bulb needs to not produce much heat as it will be above my head. Any advice would be great, Many thanks Kerrie


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[Goldsmith]

I use this LED bench light from Cooksons; http://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Professional-Led-Lamp-prcode-997-1409&query=led%20benchlight&channel=uk

My workbench with the LED lamp.

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James

[JewelleryByMandy]

Hi all, my work bench is positioned in the darkest part of my small cottage in an old fireplace inglenook with an over hang so I need to add some artificial light. I’ve been looking at Led lights. Does anyone use Led lights are these bright enough, you can buy them with a controller so you can control the intensity and I like that they are small and will be hidden. I thought fluorescent bulbs would be too intense and the wrong colour. Also the bulb needs to not produce much heat as it will be above my head. Any advice would be great, Many thanks Kerrie


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I had 2 plug in led side lamps before i replaced my light overhead. They were fine. Positioned in front of me one at each side. I usually only used 1 aswell


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[Dennis]

Led lights are fine. You can get warm white (2700K) and for my eyes, 7Watt is just right for the working lamp which is an anglepoise.
One rule is that the ambient light should be sufficient too, so that you don't see spots when you look around. Dennis.

[OceanandEarth]

Led lights are fine. You can get warm white (2700K) and for my eyes, 7Watt is just right for the working lamp which is an anglepoise.
One rule is that the ambient light should be sufficient too, so that you don't see spots when you look around. Dennis.

Great thanks, yes ambient light isn’t great, as no window only a door opening, this is only a temporary solution, I have a plan for a more permanent solution which involves me moving into the garden [emoji3] thanks I will now hunt down a suitable LED light to fix up or lamp.

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Kerrie




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[OceanandEarth]

I use this LED bench light from Cooksons; http://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Professional-Led-Lamp-prcode-997-1409&query=led%20benchlight&channel=uk

My workbench with the LED lamp.

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James

Nice! [emoji3]


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[enigma]

LEDs are fine, I always go for the daylight bulbs myself :)

[CJ57]

I've ordered the led lamp as it's dimmable so I thought it would be useful for my wonky eyes and I had a bit of prize money left and there was 10% off :)

[CJ57]

My light arrived from Cookies today and it's a bit like an octopus with springs! It was almost impossible to fit the clamp to my shelves as I have overhead cabinets so a rethink was necessary after looking again at James's pic. My bench is nearly 2 ins thick so have just drilled a hole straight through to pivot and if there is wear which I doubt will put in a bit of plastic pipe. It gives great light and will also pivot round over my bench drill so it's revived 2 lamps off my bench space providing me with more room to be really untidy!
We think there is one design fault that would have made it perfect, the light itself would have been even better on a ball joint to allow swivel in all directions instead of just back to front and up and down but still a good buy. Thanks for the suggestion James

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[Goldsmith]

Caroline, this is my old fluorescent desk lamp fitting that is screwed to my bench and luckily the new LED lamp slotted into the old fitting OK, so I can swivel the new lamp when required.

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James

[CJ57]

Thanks James. My chunky bench is working in the same way so hopefully it's hard enough

[enigma]

I now have lighting envy :'(

[CJ57]

I now have lighting envy :'(

I was showing it to my friend and discovered that not only wasn't it full up but also on dimmer when I took the photo!
Then I get a post through Fb from a friend who is a bit of a new age conspiracy theorist type with an article (unread ) telling me that led lighting will make us all go blind. Oh well:/

[enigma]

Lol! it probably has a government spy system buried in it too ! :rofl:

[CJ57]

Well there are 88 lights I'm more worried about a plane landing :)

[china]

Canola oil is more detrimental to eyesight tan LED lighting

[CJ57]

Canola oil is more detrimental to eyesight tan LED lighting

Really, not a great fan although our organic farm shop keeps loads of very expensive varieties? We're surrounded by rape fields, it's a cash crop here and it makes us quite ill when in full flower

[china]

I was skeptical, I asked my opthamologist, (I have just discovered I have a cataract in my left eye) he said their is very good evidence that it sends you blind, he is a well respected specialist in south Australia
he said he no longer uses canola oil, that was good enough for me, I only use olive oil in cooking
"They" will never admit it in Australia the canola industry in Australia is worth over 3 Billion dollars a year

[CJ57]

That's good to know. We just use olive oil too. On a small island where settlements are surrounded by farmland we tend to be surrounded by rape and the smell is overwhelming

[OceanandEarth]

That's good to know. We just use olive oil too. On a small island where settlements are surrounded by farmland we tend to be surrounded by rape and the smell is overwhelming

What’s canola oil? I’ve never heard of it! [emoji33][emoji33]


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[CJ57]

What’s canola oil? I’ve never heard of it! [emoji33][emoji33]



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I had to look it up too it's rapeseed which is all the rage as being healthy just now.
Sorry we hijacked your post, it tends to happen on here , we go off on a tangent. In some cases it could be age related:)

[OceanandEarth]

I had to look it up too it's rapeseed which is all the rage as being healthy just now.
Sorry we hijacked your post, it tends to happen on here , we go off on a tangent. In some cases it could be age related:)

Oh I’ll look it up too!

No don’t be sorry it’s how we learn new things, [emoji6]


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