Hi John years ago i had a related problem after getting led bulbs. After a chat in a proper electrical shop i got some

Led bulbs of different colour temperatures. I now use a mixture of daylight and warm white bulbs without any problems

other than my ancient eyes, and two cataract operations have helped that.

Chas

John,

I’m with Tim,

With just one working eye, only half the normal amount of light gets i so I need a very strong light.

Your LED bulbs were probably just too weak, it is not easy to get direct LED replacements for the old 150 watt types.

You need something like this:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/4lite-advantage-twin-5ft-led-ip20-batten-40w-4900lm-220-240v/919kk#product_additional_details_container

I also have a shorter one over part of the worktop.

I have just bought a clip on battery powered desk  lamp for close up work, I bought mine from Amazon.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296881136987?_ul=GB

It charges up from a USB port on my computer or probably a USB charger would work too.

Colin

In my main workshop I have an array of sunken led lamps in the ceiling and additional lamps directly above the workbenches and the kitchen trolley.

When I converted a room for a model railway I used these rails that have six LED lamps mounted in them but are supplied from a simple single cable fitting, so they can be used in existing rooms where you already have a single cable in the ceiling.  They are suppored on the surface in the middle with a couple of additional brackets at either end.

For the brightest light you can’t beat LEDs, especially bright white lamps.

Hi John

I’m with Chas on this one – it could be a light ‘temperature’ issue. Normal filament bulbs are fairly warm, LED’s can be quite cool. It might seem counter intuative but for light bulbs warm light is towards the red end of the visable scale, cool is to the blue end, wheras a red flame is cooler than a blue flame.

I use a 0.5mm propelling pencil and tend to find it’s OK in ply, but on balsa I have to press hard enough to leave a groove to see the mark.

See if you can get some ‘warm’ led’s, it might help.

I have two double bar 6500k strips and 4 single led converted fluorescent tubes in my shed. The 6500k ones are nice and pure white, however I do have a wander lead with a light on for more focused local lighting for fiddly jobs and looking for dropped items.

Ashley

Years of keeping ship’s Engine Room workshops clean and tidy.  And a good bit of OCD thrown in!

I’m naturally tidy but generally fail due to lack of space! I’m using the fourth bedroom which is great, especially in the winter, but it’s also doing duty as general storage etc. and it’s only small so it’s usually a bit of a mess in there. One advantage is having a big window for natural light which is supplemented by a single ceiling light and my LED strip anglepoise I used to use for my drawing board. Lighting could be better and I’ll kook at improving it once I tackle the room at some point, now that my second son has moved out again (he was using two bedrooms) and I’ve got room to move stuff around.

Fortunately the models I’m not actually working on are scattered around the rest of the house under the pretext of them being ornaments and works of art! I do have to run the gauntlet on this from time to time though or cock a deaf ‘un! Especially when my wife asks if there are any rooms that haven’t got boats in them!

The “workroom” isn’t usually this bad but I’ve just quickly moved stuff out of the back bedroom which we’re going to use during this warm weather. This room has a nice display of mainly Faireys!

Chris

You never know when the drug you are taking to relieve one thing has the effect of messing up something else. And the more drugs you take the more things get messed around with. I somehow suspect that most of us are affected one way or another.

All too true Richard and something that works for one person doesn’t necessarily have the same effect on another.

Whilst you still have your wits about you it really pays off to manage your own personal conditions medications etc. as much as possible on the basis that what works best for you. One thing I have learned over the last few years is not to rely on the NHS to do the best for you. Sometimes they do and are great, other times they fall a long way short. The NHS is like the proverbial curate’s egg – good in parts! I have experienced both.

Colin