When it comes to Shop light there is a lot of different options available. The question is witch one is the right one?
It come down to selection between choosing fluorescent, CFL, incandescent or even metal halide lights. Now they all come in a wide variety of lumens and you should size it appropriately for your shop.
Coverage is also important sine each light has a focus area where it produces the most optimum results. This Table I found when I was researching my light requirements Lamp-Outputs-and-Coverage
So by spacing you light fixtures appropriately you can deliver the most optimum and equally distributed light thru out your shop.
For me I have achieved good coverage with My 12 CFL can lights that i installed, but still have some individual focus areas that I control light on like my work areas and i have a extra lamp on my Drill press also.I also painted my shop White so that i cam maximize my of the light that is available to me.
One more thing i did to my shop is to install top Garage door panels that has windows in them to deliver more daylight in the shop. There nothing that delivers light like the sun.
Optimizing Light in your wood Shop is the best thing in my opinion that you can do for yourself that will give you better results almost immediately, and installing light fixtures was not to hard and I’m pretty happy with the result that was achieved at the end of the day.
It’s nice to see that my table is useful for things other than indoor-growing 🙂