Independent garage lighting - 7 simple ideas

Installing solar

Like it or not, the most effective way is to install solar panels, thanks to which you can not only make a self-contained lighting in the garage, and an independent power supply for the whole area.Yes, this is a costly option and certainly without the help of experts in the assembly can not do.However, once spent, you can not just turn on the lights during a power failure, but also greatly save electricity bills.

learn how to install solar panels with their own hands, we are told.If the budget allows, seriously think about this option.

Homemade Wind Generator

Alternatively, the autonomous power of the garage and garden as a whole is the installation of the wind turbine, which can generate free electricity.You can buy a ready-made device, but it will cost quite expensive.For 2-kilowatt model will have to pay about 100 thousand rubles.That's why we suggest you to make a wind generator with your own hands, through which it will be possible to use the light in the garage without electricity.

The only thing you need to consider - the wind speed.If in your area or location area no strong gusts of wind to get free electricity is unlikely to succeed.

diesel or gasoline generator

also possible to make the light in the garage with no electricity if you use gasoline generator.In this case, as in the embodiment with solar panels, it is possible to fully meet the electric power station, connecting the generator to the mains.Use this idea is rational only when the light is switched off for a short period of time, and if you use the garage appliance.

the rest, 1 kW of electricity from gasoline generator will cost you quite expensive, so always use them is unlikely to be profitable.For information on how to connect the generator to the network, we are told in the corresponding article.

Application Battery

available in the garage once a car battery is 12 volts?So why not make a stand-alone garage lighting using it?Everything is pretty simple - get LED strips 12 Volt (it is most practical), set above the working area and the length of the room, and then connect it to the battery.The light from the LED ribbon qualitative enough, in addition, if you are wise to approach the selection of the length of the tape, the battery is discharged too quickly.To see how the reality looks so light, you can in the video below:

And the author of the video provided below just upgraded luminaire placingLED tape it.In the picture it looks like this:

For more information see the result, you can in the video:

LEDlamp with battery

the internet now you can find a lot of offers for the sale of LED lamps on batteries.Within 5-12 watt bulbs installed battery that is capable of supporting autonomous lighting for 6-12 hours.

Using this lamp is quite simple - it is screwed into a standard cartridge E27, is charged by the network during the day and then can provide lighting in the garage without electricity.The cost is about 600 rubles, so you can buy two bulbs and forget about intermittent electricity problems.

Garden Solar Light

similar idea - to buy garden lamps with solar batteries, place them in the open air on the territory, and in the evening, if you shut off the light, put in the garage.Such lighting will last for 5-6 hours, if they are qualitative.

only disadvantage is that over time, the brightness of the light will fall, in fact, as a stand-alone lighting time.However, this idea, many use, so there is reason for its existence.

Philippine lights

And the last way, which allows you to make free light in the garage during the day - the use of Filipino lanterns that operate on the principle of light refraction.Make Filipino lamp with your hands is quite simple - cut part of the bottle (although you can use a whole), is mounted on a rigid base and is mounted in the roof.If the roof is made of corrugated board, may be simply cut into a sheet of a suitable hole into which is set a bottle of water, as shown in the photo below:

to rain did not get into the garage, the joints between the roofing material and the bottle should be well repaired with sealant.This idea will suit the residents of regions where sunny weather prevails.Otherwise, the light will be dim and it will not work.If you do it right, the result will be something like this:

Here we have listed all popular ways to make the light in the garage without electricity.Our view - if you really need only a stand-alone lighting, rather than a complete power supply, it is better to buy LED lamps on the battery or make a windmill with his hands.All other technologies are either too expensive or insufficiently effective.

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