Lighting the "work area" - wiring up a light?

[RobL]

Hey all

 

Recently I noticed I was struggling to see whilst painting figures/miniatures or doing any modelling at all and I had noticed the LED daylight bulbs in the ceiling light in my "work area" weren't putting out much light, so I bought some new LED daylight bulbs (£2.89 each from Screwfix), and the new one's are, an illumination - the old LED ones had very obviously faded in the 5-7ish years since I bought them!

 

I've also got a garden floodlight suspended from the ceiling on fishing line, directly over my "work area" about 2ft above it,  that I suspect also needs replacing (one of those cheap V-TAC one's that were popular among members of a certain private modelling forum a few years ago).  It's been up for about 5 years now and gets used at least once a week.

 

So I'm considering buying an LED panel light, like this - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254645557698?hash=item3b4a0ed9c2%3Ag%3AIqoAAOSw1b5fAtHQ&LH_BIN=1

 

Anyone here use such panel lights for lighting up their work area?

 

I'm wondering how to wire it up - can I just put it on a standard 3 pin UK plug and plug it into the wall?

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited May 15, 2021 by RobL

[Tzulscha]

I have two of those in my shop replacing two similar sized flourescent units.

I just wired them into the existing junction box as a direct replacement.

 

I don't see any reason why you couldn't just wire them to an electrical cord and plug them into an outlet though.

 

They work well, but I still have a number of flexible desk lamps clamped to the edge of my desk.