LED Shipping Container Lighting. Super cheap solar setup.

It's hard to photograph just how useful and awesome these lights are but here's an attempt.
Reels of LED SMD. £1/meter fixed first with a self-adhesive backing, then stapled permanently into place using small fencing staples. Simple, cheap, and much more useful than strip lights! Costed out the same as buying two 6ft strip lights. LED lights like these are much more useful for the money because the shelving's directly illuminated, no shadows! As well as being more efficient, so they'd run off a single 12V car battery and a sub-100W solar setup, as this one is. Easy!
The lighting I chose as 'Day White' and it's remarkable how accurate that description is. With the lights on there's little colour contrast between inside and out. A curious sensation as usually I'd expect artificial lighting to be, well, much more artificial in feeling.  





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