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The perfect LED lighting for your garage

Grafik: Autos in einer Garage

Tips for perfect light in and around your garage

First and foremost, garages serve as parking spaces for cars. However, there is also room for tools, garden tools, bicycles and garden furniture. In order to keep an overview, bright lighting is desirable. And the driveway and the paths around your garage should also be well lit. This reduces the risk of accidents. How you can best implement this and why you should rely on LED, you can find out from the lighting expert.

✓ high-quality interior lighting 

✓ safe outdoor lighting 

✓ Efficiency and durability thanks to LED technology 

✓ Safety and comfort

Why you should use LED lighting

In the past, fluorescent tubes were often used for garage lighting. They scored with brightness at high efficiency. 

However, fluorescent tubes also have some disadvantages: at low temperatures they tend to start slowly and flicker. It can then take a while until the full luminosity is reached.

Modern LED luminaires do not have to struggle with this problem. Even at sub-zero temperatures, they provide full luminosity immediately after switching on. 

They also score points for flexibility, maximum energy efficiency and long service life. This means that the investment costs for converting your garage to LED will pay for themselves very quickly.

Interior lighting of your garage

The ideal garage lighting is sketched out very simply: as soon as the garage door opens or a person enters the garage, the light should come on. It should be bright! And then the light should switch off again quickly. Automatically! 

At the same time, the lighting must be rustic and must be able to cope with the ambient conditions of a garage!

Sounds complicated? 

It's not complicated! We will explain to you which requirements the lighting in your garage has to meet and show you how you can implement this easily and cost-effectively.

Requirements for your indoor garage lighting:

Protection against dust and moisture

>IP54. Your garage lighting does not suffer from direct moisture from rain or similar. Problems are often increased humidity and the occurrence of condensation.

Impact protection

Bulky items are often stored in the garage. This can easily lead to unintentional, violent contact between the object and the lamp. Therefore your lighting should be sufficiently impact resistant. You can recognise this by the IK code.

Motion sensor

Choosing the right motion detector is very easy - but many people make mistakes. People as well as cars, motorcycles, scooters and the like should be detected. So a high frequency motion detector (HF/radar) should be chosen. Passive infrared (PIR) transmitters make little sense, because they would not detect cold vehicles entering the vehicle.

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The installation of the garage lighting is very simple:

When mounting the sensor, ensure that the detection radius is as large as possible. It should trigger when someone enters the garage, but should also register if someone moves inside the closed garage. 

  • The surface-mounted box is mounted at the suitable place with two screws + dowels. 
  • The disturbing "wings" of the sensor can be removed with a side cutter (they are not needed and take up unnecessary space). 
  • Carry out the wiring of the sensor Two holes in the ceiling (+screws+plugs) to attach the "clips" for the damp-proof luminaire When clipping in the lamp, make sure that it is not covered by the door. 
  • Connect light and motion detector.

Before wiring on the power side, remove the fuse and secure it against being switched on again.

Das Ergebnis

Robuste LED-Garagenleuchte mit Sensorik

Sicherlich gibt es viele alternative Lösungen auf dem Markt. Oft haben sie aber den Nachteil, dass sie einen PIR/Passiv-Infrarotsensor verwenden, welcher nicht auf Wärmeveränderungen reagiert.

Das Licht schaltet sich erst ein, wenn das Auto bereits in der Garage ist. Im kritischen Moment der Einfahrt lässt es einen im Dunkeln stehen.

Die Installation ist nur durch fachkundige Personen (Elektroinstallateure, elektrotechnisch unterwiesene Personen etc.) vorzunehmen. Strom kann lebensgefährlich sein.

Outdoor lighting for your garage

Outdoor garage lighting, parking lot lighting and backyard lighting is offered by many manufacturers. We will show you what requirements LED outdoor lighting for garage or backyard must meet.

Requirements for your outdoor garage lighting:

Protection against dust and moisture

At least IP54! Wind and weather should not affect the LED lighting. Sufficient protection against rain, snow and humidity must be provided. The higher the value, the better. The IP value should not be underestimated. Even if luminaires with a lower IP value initially still function: the change in temperature (solar radiation versus cooling at night, but also heating up due to operation versus cooling down due to switching off) draws air and thus also air humidity into the interior. When the luminaire warms up, the luminaire "breathes out"; when it cools down, the luminaire "breathes in the air and humidity". Air humidity and dust damage the electronics/LED.

Weathering/UV

Although many luminaires offer the necessary IP protection, they are damp-proof luminaires for inside use. Sunlight contains a UV component that makes many plastics and seals brittle within a very short time. The luminaire should be explicitly approved for free weathering.

Light quantity/luminous flux

At least 5000 lumens for areas of 8x8 meters. In many garage areas, backyards, parking lots a lot of light is needed, but there is little other ambient light. Luminous flux is measured in lumen (lm). The higher the value, the more light comes out. For classification: 100W incandescent lamp = 1000 lumen, 500W halogen spotlight = 10,000 lumen. And: the more light, the lower the risk of accidents and the greater the "burglar resistance". According to the recommendation of the police, the best protection against burglary is a glaring bright light that is switched on unexpectedly (motion detector).

Energy efficiency

not less than 100lm/W. The higher the value, the greater the amount of light that is obtained from 1 Watt of electricity. However, many luminaire manufacturers still use "old", cheaper chips with significantly lower efficiency (<100lm/W).

Lighting Technology

LED should be. In the past, halogen lamps were mainly used. Halogen bulbs are susceptible, frequent switching damages the lamp (motion detector?!)... and not infrequently, after 2000 hours, it was over. Replacement is then difficult... . With LEDs it is the other way round: robust, durable, switching does not damage the LED, immediately bright when switched on.

Motion sensor

For most requirements absolutely necessary. A motion detector reduces the time switched on immensely and thus also the power consumption. You should only make sure that a passive infrared sensor is used. A high-frequency motion detector would report every falling leaf... . Of course a motion detector is also a deterrent against burglars.

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Application example: exterior lighting of a double garage of Zapf

In our example a double garage of Zapf (9x6m) should be illuminated:

  • Entrance area / passage area (spotlight 1 and spotlight 4): should be as bright and non-dazzling as possible so that the entrance is accident-free. 
  • Back door (spotlight 2): so that you are not standing in the dark as soon as you leave the bright garage. 
  • Circumferential corridor and staircase area (spotlight 3): with corner mounting.

With our product range you can create the ideal outdoor lighting for your garage in a simple, efficient and inexpensive way.

If you have any questions about your new garage lighting or suitable alternatives, please feel free to contact us.

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