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LED panels. Built mine for less than $250.
Table Light Recommendations
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LED panels. Built mine for less than $250.
Plenty bright. Works just fine.
I'll buy a brand new table because of break problems, but a $250 light, that's just too expensive.
Nice, but the glare while being seated is too much for this player to want/enjoy playing for hours. I'd need a hat and shades.I got 2 of the 2x4 led light panels from homedepot. Made the frames and hangers from recycled materials on hand in my shop. It is a shop table.They panels were discounted due to damage in handling at the store.
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The damage was slight.
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Each panel was framed individually then a splice plate tied them together.View attachment 887770
The lighting is good.
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It ain't purty but it's good lighting.
The good thing about commodity drop-ceiling light panels is the egg-shell grates are also commodity. HD sells them. They can be added to any 2x2 or 2x4 LED panel. That's why Diamond/Littman/even old fluorescent GC4 lights are so good, and Perimeter/Arena lights blind everyone.
$20 at HD: https://www.homedepot.com/p/PLASKOL...-Crate-Light-Ceiling-Panel-1199233A/202025149
About a $170 in parts and a little woodwork time. There is a diffuser on it also. It's an incredible light, so much so that someone on here contacted me about making them commercially and wanted a diagram with dimensions and parts used. didn't offer to pay me anything. Maybe I should sell them, I do have a full workshop.
Great job! The room looks super.
If they contacted you for all of that info, they were not qualified to make them commercially.
The led panels are a soft light. The first and last pictures are taken with the light on. I don't notice any glare when playing.