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Lighting design ideas

  • 15-05-2008 5:26pm
    #1
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok I got a PM suggesting this sticky from Fishdog, I think its a good idea.

    So here is a place to discuss lighting designs, for the home and more.

    I could be a good place to recommend suppliers (who will be brought forward to the suppliers sticky) and designers but I'd also like a PMs if someone has something negative to say about a fitting. There are so many makes and models out there , and so much muck for sale, that it can be hard to tell if a recommended fitting is a well recommend fitting, so PM me and I'll edit them is this thread grows.

    I have no favorites, they are IMO the car sales men of the electrical industry. :D

    Lighting makes or breaks an installation, so any advice to users would be great.


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  • #2
    fishdog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭fishdog


    Here are some lights that I really liked. I had to dim the lights to be able to photograph them (the light just dazzled the camera) so they appear to give a more yellow light than in real life.

    The pewter lights are a very classic design. In the photo they look darker than they are. They are in a line over a long dining table and controlled by a dimmer switch.

    The wall washing down lighters are also far brighter and give a nice reflected light. They are standard 12 volt type with 20 watt lamps.

    The Bob Bushell twin down lighter is fantastic, but hard to see that from the photo!!


  • #3
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    some nice lights there alright.


    something I've come across lately, on some high end developments dimming systems are installed in houses. Now with the latest environmental ratings for new developments it has made it difficult for halogen lamps to fit in anywhere.
    So has anyone successfully implemented a scene setting dimming system in a house using LEDs, I know the CFLs are available in a dimmed mode but they are not really suitable.

    anyone any ideas, bearing in mind that this would be a networked system?


  • #4
    fishdog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭fishdog


    I installed a Lutron Homeworks Dimming system. The required a minimum lower load on each zone or that zone would not perform reliably. From memory it was in the region of 60 watts.

    One of the problems with LEDs is that it will take alot of them to add up to this value, perhaps alot more than would suit your design.

    LED lights have alot of advantages, but I think they have a long way to go. The only suit limited applications.

    These dimming systems aint cheap either!


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