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Indoor Lighting Technique, Pros and Cons of a Few Designs

Spring is a huge time for home renovations and construction. People are redeveloping their interior and exterior, implementing the ideas that mulled through their head all winter. Since the time for work is now, maybe it’s finally time to change up your home’s lighting design to manage mood, aesthetic, and energy consumption for the coming year. Especially with indoor lighting, there are multiple options for replacement light bulbs and systems that can be implemented early on. Such systems can dramatically change a room or interior design, which is why an understanding of some of the different techniques is going to be helpful to making the best decision for interior lighting. The following is a breakdown of the pros and cons of a few popular interior lighting renovations, and the impact that they will have on a home. Recessed Lighting Recessed lighting pushes the bulb into the ceiling, enabling a softer and indirect light. The installation can be handled by any contracting ...

Solar Power Lighting - Extensive Use of Solar Energy

Solar energy is extensive in its use; among its numerous uses is outdoor lighting and use in powering street lights. Since solar energy use started becoming popular, some alternative energy companies have become well known in manufacturing solar street lights and other outdoor solar power lighting. Usually, the solar street lights do not require any wiring or trenching; they are generally mounted on uniquely designed galvanized poles that have been created to stay for a longer period of time, and at the same time withstand any weather and environmental unfavourable conditions. Solar power lighting can also be applied to park lights, pathway lights, billboard lighting, sign lighting, transit shelters, municipal lighting, streetlamp, road lights, solar light poles as well as security lighting. The use of solar power lighting is very wide; in addition to the ones listed above, other uses include Dock lighting, parking lot lighting, transit lighting, military/civil security and many others...

Choosing New Lighting For Parking Areas

In recent years, it has become a necessity to upgrade many lights used on roads and parking lots. This is due for the most part to the rise of LED lights. Not only are they smaller, brighter, easier to maintain, require less power and safer to use than traditional lighting options, but their price has decreased significantly in the last few years, to the point where it is greatly beneficial to commercial businesses, industries and cities to update to this innovative lighting option. Since parking lots and parking areas are one of the most common uses for all night lighting needs, it’s safe to say that updating to LED lighting is something that nearly every maintainer of a parking area had done, is considering, or is in the process of doing right now. So, where to start when you are tasked with choosing new LED lights for your parking areas? Here’s a few things to consider: First, consider whether you will be replacing existing lights or adding new ones. If you have lights al...

LED Lighting - Whats All the Rage?

“L-E-D”. When it comes to lighting, you’re hearing these three letters over and over again… you see it posted all over lighting websites, and its starting to bug you. It seems to be an exciting new trend…some kind of new innovative light…but you have no idea what it is. You’d like to know what everybody’s talking about- what’s all the rage?  LED’s – Light Emitting Diodes – Simply put, LED’s are diodes that…(huh?) hang on, I’ll explain: a diode is the simplest sort of semiconductor device. (what’s that?) wow, you’re impatient: A semi-conductor is a material with the ability to conduct electrical current. Basically, instead of emitting light from a vacuum (as in an incandescent bulb) or a gas (as in a CFL), LED emits light from a piece of solid matter, its semi-conductor. Stated very simply, an LED produces light when electrons move around within its semiconductor structure. They tell you...