On 24/09/2014 14:57, Johny B Good wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:52:25 +0000 (UTC), Adrian
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:32:38 +0100, Johny B Good wrote:

Such "Downlighters" are the spawn of the Devil. Sometime in the past,
a **** of a "Lighting Designer" (no doubt calling himself a fashion
designer) in the employ of a lighting accessories manufacturer, decided
the mis appropriation of these lamps into a stylish table lamp in an
exercise of "Fashion over Function" would be a "Jolly good wheeze" and
set the ball rolling which eventually led to the concept of ceiling
downlighter luminaries we loathe today.

These spot lighting lamps did have a legitimate use to begin with
which was, essentially, to provide an unobtrusive source of spot
illumination in retail stores for such things as shop window and counter
displays of the "Goods on Show".

The lamp manufacturers were only too happy to supply the extra demand
opened up by this market demographic (basically pretentious gits with
more money than sense).

We should all go back to lovely flouro strip lights everywhere,
especially in the living room, eh?

I wasn't suggesting going to that extreme as you know full well,
although fluorescent tubes have been available in circular form for
just such "Not out of place in the Living Room" usage for the past 4
decades or so. Now we repeat the same exercise using small, highly
loaded spiral tubes, cunningly disguised as incandescent bulbs.

My message was simply, "For sanity's sake, _don't_ fit ceiling
downlighters _anywhere_ in a domestic property!"

Why not? In some places they work quite well... say a small bathroom,
easy to get IP44 fittings, 4 x 20W 12V halogen lamps give a good white
light.

Wall washers can add a nice atmospheric effect in some locations. The
trick is to use them appropriately and with sensible lamp choices.




--
Cheers,

John.

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