Good Garage Light - 12 Volt Any recomendations???

[fly fisher]

Hi,

I have got myself a garage for my car in London, it has been outsidee long enough. However there is no light or 240 volt electrics in the garage.

Is there any good lights which would work off a 12 volt battery, which would light the garage. (Single car garage).

Thanks,
Will

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

If you're using a 12v battery, you want an LED torch - anything else will suck the juice out of it PDQ.

How about a cordless, rechargeable LED torch? That way, you won't even need to risk flattening the battery?

[Ozzie Osmond]

In that same situation I used to use an old car battery rigged through a normal domestic light switch on the wall of the garage and wired to a 12v bulb overhead. Just needed to take the battery indoors for a charge from time to time.

These days with a solar trickle charger from Maplin outside the garage and some bright LEDs instead of the old-fashioned bulb it should be possible to make something very permanent and effective.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/solar-powered-12v-2.4w-bat...

http://www.maplin.co.uk/dc-12-v-flexible-led-light...

[fly fisher]

Would LED give enough light?

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

fly fisher said:

Would LED give enough light?

Cerial? LED's are F.O. bright now.

See those ridiculously bright and distracting 'daytime running lights' on new cars now?

LED's...

[fly fisher]

Will look into it. Sadly garage is underground so sadly dont have access to directly sunlight which whont help a trickle charger sadly. If solar worked of artifical light, it would be perfect but sadly doubt it does..