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What’s New With Kitchen Lighting Design?
However, while all these different types of lighting really do help create a stunning look that is both immensely practical and visually pleasing at the same time, there is a price to pay and that is the cost of running it all.
Up until quite recently it was common to use 50W halogen lamps for recessed down lighting. In even a fairly modest with say 10 lamps that's 500 watts just to provide the background light. You can easily see how a well appointed kitchen might be consuming thousands of watts, and with the price of electricity where it is today, that's not exactly small ... Can You Mix ‘n Match Transformers With LED Lights?
Too much or too little and they cannot maintain a steady output voltage.
Thus the converse case is also true, when a transformer that is designed to drive, let's say, a maximum of 500 watts worth of halogen lamps is attached to 20 watts worth of LED spotlights. The expected resistance is not present, the output voltage increases and your expensive, long lasting LED bulbs burn out in short order. The trouble though is that often the damage being done isn't obvious - the lights do ... Fed Up With Outrageous Energy Bills? Read On…
You may very well not be like most people (in which case, apologies...) but statistically that assessment is going to be accurate more often than not.
But those two figures (£140 vs £16) are not plucked out of thin air - that's the genuine difference between a regular kitchen lit using a mere ten 50 watt halogen lamps and the same space lit just as brightly using ten GU10 LED bulbs. Astounding isn't it? Image how much you could save if you did the same for the whole house?
So to get even more bang for your buck then start switching over to ... Still Using Halogen Lamps? Are You Mad?
Despite the continuing worldwide purge of incandescent light bulbs, Halogen Lamps have remained thus far immune from the cull. One suspects that this may be due to the fact that when the ban on incandescent lighting technology was first conceived, the only viable alternative was Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) and these are no way acceptable as substitutes in terms of performance for regular halogen spot lights.
But of course a lot has changed in the intervening years (the phased withdrawal of incandescent light bulbs began in 2005) and not the least of which has been the introduction of LED light bulbs designed and priced ... What To Look For When Buying LED Spotlights
And if you're a typical Westerner, reasonably affluent and aspirational, then there's a very good chance that you are using, not just one but likely dozens of the worst offenders. We're talking about the good old halogen spot lamp - that mainstay of kitchen lighting and much else besides.
Now not only are regular halogen lamps among the greatest exponents of the ignoble art of squandering energy (which means their days are of course numbered), but they are not easily replaced by CFLs either. Most halogen lamps are designed for a snug fit ... 
