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Tim+ wrote:
My mother who has macular degeneration desperately needs some better
lighting in her tenement flat kitchen.

At present she has some manly old spotlights with an assortment of CFL
bulbs instead of the intended 60W reflectors so as you can imagine it's a
bit crap.

I was thinking of replacing them all with something like this, a six spot
LED track.

http://www.beamled.com/six-light-12w...light-kit.html

Given that the ceiling is 3.2 metres high, would the lighting be
improved?

The best lighting in terms of being practical for seeing things is soft
light. In other words, the light source is as large and even as possible.
Think a bright overcast day.

Spotlights may look pretty and produce nice looking 'pools' of light. But
that isn't the same as giving decent working light. Unless lots of them
are bounced off say a white wall. To give that large even light area.

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