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Halogen down lighters - spacing for kitchen
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I was wondering if there are any guidelines as to how close together these need to be for a kitchen where we will have an approx. 4m run of work top in an L shape with no wall cupboards. I am considering the mains voltage 50W type, and want a bright working area. TIA -- Mark |
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Mark writes: Hi I was wondering if there are any guidelines as to how close together these need to be for a kitchen where we will have an approx. 4m run of work top in an L shape with no wall cupboards. I am considering the mains voltage 50W type, and want a bright working area. Oh dear. I suggest you read back through earlier threads on halogen downlighters before going that route ;-) -- Andrew Gabriel |
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Mark wrote:
Hi I was wondering if there are any guidelines as to how close together these need to be for a kitchen where we will have an approx. 4m run of work top in an L shape with no wall cupboards. I am considering the mains voltage 50W type, and want a bright working area. TIA If I may suggest, these arent one of the best possible choices. If you want the look of halogen downlights you'd do better to use 20w halogens, and make up the remaining light level with CFLs. As Andrew said, google, groups, uk.d-i-y for the problems with them. NT |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:19:10 +0000 The Natural Philosopher wrote :
If you are mean and green, use CFL's - but if you want the best lighting quality and accurate illumination, LV halogens are very very good. Mine even dim bless them.Do your sums on electricoity consumption, capital cost and MTBF and make up your own mind. I guess I'm mean and green but think these halogen spots (mains or LV) to be a stupid affectation. The more so since my mother had the bright idea of getting the 2 x 4' fluorescents in her kitchen changed to 2 x 4 x 50W mains halogen spots and I'm the one who gets to change the bulbs. Nasty light with hard shadows in front of you just where you are working (of course due to the fittings being centre ceiling) and costing five times as much in energy and lamp replacements. -- Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk Free SEDBUK boiler database browser http://www.sda.co.uk/qsedbuk.htm [Latest version QSEDBUK 1.12 released 8 Dec 2005] |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 8 Jan 2006 12:48:47 -0800, wrote: If you are mean and green, use CFL's - but if you want the best lighting quality and accurate illumination, LV halogens are very very good. This is popular misconceptions imho. CFL qualities vary, you need to pick the better ones to get good results. Halogens have several downsides compared to cfl, including in lighting quality, anyone can google. NT |
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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:45:31 GMT, Mark wrote:
Hi I was wondering if there are any guidelines as to how close together these need to be for a kitchen where we will have an approx. 4m run of work top in an L shape with no wall cupboards. I am considering the mains voltage 50W type, and want a bright working area. TIA For gods sake get LV and save yourself from expensive bulb replacements every fortnight. Every person I know with mains halogens hates the bloody things and has ripped them out - when you end up with half the lights blown every two months...so will you. How does 4 years average lifetime in a busy are grab you on my 50W LV spots? And bulb price less than half the mains ones? I would put about 1 every meter frankly. Over the worktop. For general lighting 2-5 square meters per bulb, and get wide angle ones. Eyeball firttings enable you to use a bit less, by allowing you to set where the bright patches are. |
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Just fitted 6 times 50W LV recessed lights last weekend. Very pleased
with result. Spacing about 1m |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:45:31 GMT, Mark wrote: Hi I was wondering if there are any guidelines as to how close together these need to be for a kitchen where we will have an approx. 4m run of work top in an L shape with no wall cupboards. I am considering the mains voltage 50W type, and want a bright working area. TIA For gods sake get LV and save yourself from expensive bulb replacements every fortnight. Every person I know with mains halogens hates the bloody things and has ripped them out - when you end up with half the lights blown every two months...so will you. How does 4 years average lifetime in a busy are grab you on my 50W LV spots? And bulb price less than half the mains ones? I would put about 1 every meter frankly. Over the worktop. For general lighting 2-5 square meters per bulb, and get wide angle ones. Eyeball firttings enable you to use a bit less, by allowing you to set where the bright patches are. I use 1.2 to 1.5m spacing, i have fitted loads of mains voltage halogen on diff jobs, 50w lamps cost £2 each last app 1 year in my own kitchen 7 lights for 6x3m floor area, I use "task lighting" for worktop areas, linkable striplights screwfix No 98307, don't like lv downlights 50/50 chance transformer or lamp wiil blow first |
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