great info...thanks





John Davies wrote:

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:33:09 -0500, wrote:

Are there any horizontal variants of these?? We just finished a
basement, and one of the rooms ended up being windowless. Just behind
its rear finished wall in an adjacent unfinished area, there is a
casement window in the foundation...I'd love to move some of that
natural light from that casement window the finished room...if the
fixture didn't look too riduculous.

Anybody familiar with such a product?

The sun tubes can be mounted at any angle, including horizontal, but
they do have limits to the number of bends and total run. I don't
think you will have much luck piping light through a room from a
casement window. You would be better off running a tube across that
room and through the wall itself. The collector looks like a
hemi-spherical UFO, and at night it glows from the interior lighting,
so you may not want that showing at an outside wall!

If there was good exposure at that location it could bring in a
substantial amount of light for part of the day. (The ideal location,
of course, is as high as possible on the roof with a full day's worth
of sun exposure.) You could box in the tube and sheetrock it if it
looked too industrial. SolaTube provides tubes of 10, 14 and 21 inches
OD. The smallest size is suitable for a small space like a closet or
bathroom. The 14 inch is great for larger rooms like bedrooms and
small family rooms. Big rooms need multiple tubes to avoid shadows.

Here are some design resources. You could always email these folks
with your question.

http://solatube.com/res_tech_resource_center.php

http://solatube.com/res_performance_chart.php

http://solatube.com/dea_res_edu.php

Good luck!

John

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