Expert Guide: Best LED Lighting for 30×40 Shops & Pole Barns
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There are lots of shop lighting and pole barn lighting options available for a 30x40 shop or pole barn. In this video, Neil Peterson of LED Lighting Supply takes you through some of the most common options to help you to choose the right shop lighting.\n\nAfter watching this video, you can browse our full lines:\nShop Lights: https://www.ledlightingsupply.com/commercial-lighting/shop-lights \n\nPole Barn Lights: https://www.ledlightingsupply.com/commercial-lighting/led-pole-barn-lights\n\nTranscript:\nHi, I'm Neil Peterson with LED Lighting Supply.\n\nToday I'm going to talk about 30 by 40 pole barns or shops and the lighting requirements for those.\n\nWe get a lot of requests from customers to light their shops.\n\nPole barns you know 30 by 40 feet is a pretty regular size What really varies is your height.\n\nWe see them anywhere from ten to 18 feet.\n\nYou know there are a lot of different fixtures you can use.\n\nThe lower the height, the lower the wattage fixture you're going to want to use, the higher the height, you know, the higher wattage you going to use but not too high.\n\nYou're almost sometimes better to use more fixtures and get a much more uniform light level.\n\nIt also gets back to what you're doing there.\n\nSo a 30 by 40 shop, 16 feet tall, you probably could use six of our 100\nwatt UFOs and that's going to give you 50 to 60 foot candles, which is great for working on vehicles, doing woodworking, doing all sorts of projects like that.\n\nYou also have the ability to hook them up to a dimmer in that environment if you want to, to dim the light down in case you don't want that much light at times.\n\nBut usually we don't find dimmers being used in more commercial environments.\n\nYou know, more homeowner with a large shop dimming could make sense, but you do have to use a licensed electrician.\n\nSo we have lots of options.\n\nGive one of our lighting technicians a call and they can run a quick lighting plan on your space and tell you the right fixture and the right amount of light for your application.\n\nSo have a great day.