LEDs Light
Up the Garage as Well as the Home
Today made
me really wish we had a garage instead of just a carport. As I keep hammering away, there are just days
left before we leave for Hawaii. Which
means there’s only about a month left before we move out of the only home our
son has known. This is where the garage
comes in to play. We would not have
hauled several boxes and storage tubs to our UHaul storage facility today if we
had a garage. The things in those tubs
would probably be stacked neatly on utility shelves in that garage. It’s not as though garages are uncommon in
Arizona, but many homes around here have them.
The major
thing I miss about not having a garage, aside from having a virtually
weather-proof place to store things, is that it’s secure to an extent. People have been suffered break-ins that
occurred through their garage door being tampered with. The only way you can get in to most garages
is through the main door you drive into, which is usually controlled by a remote
opener. The machines I guess you’d call
them, that open the garage have lights on them, usually in the front and sometimes
in both front and back.
The light,
of course, takes a standard incandescent bulb.
The LED replacement for said incandescent is the A15, the one I talked
about yesterday. But the garage door
opener is a rather specific and different sort of use for it. The A15 will emit light in all directions and
is the perfect size for a limited space such as a garage door opener device.
Think about
how bright – or dim – your garage seems now when you open the door. Now think about what LED lights do in other
areas of your home. Especially with
detached garages, the extra light is helpful as there’s likely no other light
source.
Well, I’m
off to flip the switch on a very small LED light and dream of the day I’ll own
a home with a garage – and an LED light in the opener.
http://www.agreensupply.com/led-garage-door-opener/
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