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April 24th, 2011
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Lighting Q&A: Lighting And Light Bulb Basics

By Larry Tibbets

* What are the different types of lighting?

The different types of lights are incandescent, tungsten-halogen, compact fluorescent lamps, tubular fluorescent fixtures, and HID (high-density discharge).

•Incandescent lights have a relatively short life. They can only withstand between 1000 and 3000 hours of continuous use. They are also the least efficient source of regular lights.

•Tungsten-halogen are lights that belong to cateogyr of incandescent lamps. They have become gradually popular in recent years. They generate a white light with more intense standards.

•Dense florescent lights are a kind of fluorescent light but generate color more similar to some incandescent lamps. They combine the standard features of other lights.

•Tubular fluorescent lights are in tubular shape. They have a smaller diameter but are more efficient compared to other lights. They have a magnetic ballast that the lightning features depend upon.

•HID is a type of light that has a high output of light. Its components are mercury, metal halide, vapor and high pressure of sodium lighting.

* What are the different kinds of fixtures?

An extensive diversity of fixtures is available for different purposes. In general, fixtures are practical, versatile, presentable, and durable to make the interior design colorful.

The three main groups of fixtures are end piece fixtures, ceiling lights fixtures, and landscape fixtures.

•End piece fixtures have a design to work with solid standard cable wire.

•Ceiling light fixtures are handled with modified cable with larger diameter and capacitors.

•Landscape fixtures are used for giving colors and additional attraction for the background of landscape.

* What is a fluorescent light?

A fluorescent light produces energy from the atom. It is composed of many small particle pockets that expand to cause momentum. The basic unit of lights in flourescent is “light photons.”

Atoms discharge light photons when the electrons heat up. The electrons travel around certain orbit to increase the net charge and produce energy levels. After that light is produced from the nucleus.

* What is incandescent light?

Incandescent lights produce light by a shimmering filament. The filament is heated by white-hot electric current. Incandescence is the light-giving method. A glass container or lamp encloses the bulb.

It normally has a vacuum with a low-pressure to produce oxidation of filament with a high temperature.

* What is halogen?

Halogen can provide brilliant illumination by the use of electric current to heat the filament of metal and tungsten until it burns. Halogen has a filament inside a container or envelope.

A halogen lamp works much the same way as an incandescent lamp. On the other hand, the chemical reactions between halogen lamps are proficient and brighter than incandescent lamps.

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April 6th, 2011
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Home Lighting: Cost Savings And Design Through LED Lights

By Ben Anton

More and more home, apartment and office owners are looking for ways to go green. The benefits not only improve the quality of our environment, but they also make for significant tax deductions at the end of the year. As energy efficiency is becoming more prevalent in household lighting and home lighting design is becoming more popular, it is no surprise that LED lights are coming to the forefront as a leading choice for illumination.

We are all familiar with the traditional incandescent light bulb. These bulbs are filled with a gas and then a filament is stretched across the inside. When electricity is run across the filament, it heats up to often very high temperatures. The bulb’s glow is a result of the filament heating up. The heat is a result of wasted energy. Incandescent bulbs also suffer from inherent fragility. These lights weaken over time as the heat separates atoms from the whole and causes thin spots in the filament. Eventually these thin spots will break and you will need to replace the bulb.

An alternative light to the incandescent is the halogen bulb. In a halogen bulb the envelope that holds the filament is a lot smaller, made of quartz and is filled with a halogen gas. These bulbs can burn a bit brighter and will last for longer periods of time. It is halogen lighting that is currently used quite often by movie theaters, television studios and movie sets. These bulbs are still heat inefficient, however. The most common halogen light used for indoor and outdoor home lighting is the twelve volt MR16 halogen light.

The LED, light-emitting diode, bulb is a culmination of the best of both the incandescent and halogen worlds but with the efficiency that neither can provide. In an LED bulb, the science on which it is based is completely different from the other two options. There is no filament and very little heat. The light source is a diode that emits light when electricity is applied. This mechanism for creating light allows for much lower energy use, brighter light, and longer lasting bulbs.

One of the most common LED home light bulbs available is the LED Lenser Leflector. These bulbs can replace any halogen bulb up to twenty watts. The leflector can burn continuously for more than 50,000 hours before needing to be replaced. That is more than five years of continuous use and over thirty years if the bulbs burn an average of four hours a day. LED home bulbs are over ninety percent more efficient than a halogen bulb and can be operated for pennies a year. These features make them perfect for moving your home – kitchen, living room, game room; you name it – to a more environmentally conscious dwelling.

Outdoor applications for LED lights are many. They work well for outdoor accent lighting because of the many color options available and can be adjusted to be both spotlights and security flood lights.

Updating light fixtures in a home or office is an excellent way to reduce household costs, save energy and at the same time improve upon your home lighting design.

~Ben Anton, 2008

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March 8th, 2011
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Phantom’s Canadian Lighting Agents Offer Special Equipment And Support Services To Commercial And Residential Lighting Designers

By Russell Neal

Canadian lighting designers have a new source of display lighting fixtures and art lighting framing projectors. Phantom Lighting has opened a number of field offices in Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec in order to extend personalized consultative services to contractors working in both commercial and residential arenas. Canadian Our lighting manufacturer agents help Canadian service professionals find the right model for their interior design proposals. Both for offices and homes throughout Canada, lighting manufacturer agents not only provide products, but complimentary design suggestions and detailed technical support for installation and user friendly operation.

The agent network was the brainchild of Phantom Lighting owner and founder, Tom Kretzschmar. Kretzschmar believes that contractors need technical support and consultation just as much as end users. Phantom Lighting products are highly specialized, custom lighting fixtures designed to conceal their own visibility in order to better magnify the artwork or showcase on display. Due to the wide range of specific applications that both Contour Projectors and Linear Lighting Strips can be employed for in both homes and offices, lighting manufacturer representatives help contractors with questions about unique product features, low voltage power saving advantages, and special lighting effects that can be achieved with both lines of luminaires.

Phantom Lighting’s Canadian representative agents offer in-depth consultation services over the phone, and they also will perform on site demonstrations of Phantom products by special appointment. Part of the many responsibilities of Canadian lighting agents is to make wise use of consultation time and gather as client data as possible. This information is then passed back to corporate headquarters in order to determine appropriate equipment configurations, series model, lamping options, and custom build specifications that will help them best serve the needs of the contractor’s client.

For example, interior lighting designers are often asked to provide a superior form of illumination for fine art and commercial photography frequently used to decorate foyers, meeting areas, and executive suites. Phantom manufacturers agents will help Canadian lighting designers choose from any of six Contour Projector models that can be used to produce a focused light source over paintings and statuary. Lighting agents also supply the commercial designer with customized templates for three-dimensional or odd-sized picture lighting, and they help designers fine tune the Contour Projector’s beam to fit the exact dimensions of the artwork and create a “lighted from within effect.

Art lighting services aren’t the only specialty that Canadian lighting agents offer to commercial and residential lighting design firms. Commercial designers throughout Canada encounter display lighting needs in virtually every environment to which they submit a proposal. Many times these designers run into a brick wall when they try to chase down lighting agents from multiple manufacturers of under cabinet fixtures, shelf lighting strips, and showcase lighting strip lights. Phantom Lighting agents in Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec equip proposals daily with proprietary, custom lighting strips made to special order for each and every client.

These lighting strips are low voltage fixtures that are custom manufacturered the specified dimensions of any display case, retail showcase, bookshelves, antique cabinet, or curio display. Phantom manufacturer representatives will help commercial designers choose from incandescent, xenon, or LED lighting options in order to best accommodate the functional and aesthetic needs of office managers, store owners, and homeowners. When companies need to replace linear strips in order to reduce power costs, Canadian designers can save these organizations a great deal of money by asking a Phantom Lighting manufacturer representative to custom retrofit existing linear strips with proprietary LED festoons with a lumens per watt radiance that rivals standard incandescent and xenon lamps.

Increasing numbers of interior and commercial lighting design firms are coming to Phantom Lighting agents to save time in preparing their proposals and to generate a cost-effective, viable competitive advantage that will pass on value to their many clients throughout Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, and British Columbia.

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March 8th, 2011
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Architectural Area Lighting

By R. Neal

Architectural area lights feature an aesthetic component that differentiates them from the purely functional fixtures used in typical site lighting. Although the lamps used in both architectural area lighting and site lighting are often similar–if not identical– light sources, architectural area lights are made with a noticeably higher level of decorative design and ornamentation. As such, purchasing costs can be rather high, and this can deter municipalities, academic institutions, and even small corporations from making an investment that would otherwise serve their outdoor lighting needs on a number of levels ranging from public appeal to commercial branding. When commercial site developers, architects, and contractors encounter this type of resistance, they can turn to RLLD Commercial Lighting for adjunct lighting design support that will enable them to propose cost-effective, energy saving light sourcing that offers both tangible benefits and ROI on multiple levels.

Contractors frequently encounter office buildings, churches, museums, civic centers, municipal headquarters, universities, restaurants, resorts, and country clubs that require a highly customized, often very sophisticated architectural area lighting system that will contribute certain key elements to their property, building architecture, and public image. The fixtures and lamps that will ultimately be used to build these systems must completely accommodate the multiple demands of dark sky laws, increasingly strict LPW efficiency codes, minimum foot candle requirements, and bring the client measurable ROI through reduced power requirements and minimized ongoing maintenance.

If you are a commercial developer or sole proprietor working as a DIY electrical contractor, you can quickly and accurately accommodate these many demands in an expeditious manner is to work with a vendor like RLLD Commercial Lighting that offers complimentary, adjunct design services with a systematic approach. Before we suggest any specific lamps or fixtures, we first want to learn more specifics from you regarding your client’s site. When we understand architectural area lighting to actually be a combination of four separate elements– parking lot lighting, parking garage lighting, building architectural lighting, and security lighting– the right questions to ask become readily apparent. Does your client have a parking lot, a parking garage, or both? What is the total number of buildings located on the property? Are there public park areas, open landscapes, recreational areas, or walkways that require special lighting? How many people work or visit the facility at night? What is the total acreage of the property if it is located on a considerably large piece of land? How much light will the entire system output, what it will cost, and what will be the expected return on investment for your client?

The data gathered from this dialogue is now inputted into sophisticated lighting design software that enables us to calculate on a point by point level the exact photometric requirements needed to determine which specific fixtures will best provide building accent light, perimeter and walkway security, glare free, well-lit parking areas, and aesthetic, shadow-free landscape, and an energy savings package that offers a measurable ROI by means of energy and maintenance cost savings. By eliminating the guesswork from architectural area lighting, RLLD Commercial Lighting helps contractors first determine exactly what lighting levels and power requirements are optimal to propose, and second, which actual products will most effectively and affordably offer clients lasting solutions that are affordable, reliable, and aesthetically superior. By giving smaller design firms and individual lighting design consultants access to software normally affordable only to larger firms, RLLD Commercial Lighting also helps level the lighting design playing field, arming small companies and consultants with competitive advantages that can rival even the largest firms in photometric accuracy, specification grade quality, and multiple benefits at the line item level.

RLLD Commercial Lighting maintains a full selection of architectural area lighting fixtures, lamping options, commercial lighting poles, and mounting accessories that allow the contractor to offer more options to the client at the line item level. As a representative of a number of reputable, domestic, and established manufacturers, we can offer any commercial developer, architect, or lighting designer impeccable lead time on products made here in the United States and drop shipped anywhere in the country to expedite time to market delivery of products and services.

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