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What’s New With Kitchen Lighting Design?

What's New With Kitchen Lighting Design? Well all manner of wonderful kitchen lighting options are available these days ranging from the simple but effective, like these cheap and cheerful chic pendants that actually cost less than some led bulbs (of which more in a second), to some quite exotic and far from cheap fittings. Certainly, one of the main driving forces of late has been low energy energy lighting and in particular LED light bulbs and even more specifically LED spot lights. For anyone who has ...

Not All LED Light Bulbs Are Created Equal

Not All LED Light Bulbs Are Created Equal are a waste of time and money and those who are convinced they more than deliver on their promise with regard to both light quality and low energy consumption? Well it basically boils down to the fact that, as the title suggests, there are huge differences between the various led bulbs available. The give away clues are there for all to see though - you just need to know where to look. In the absence of all other information, price tends to be a reliable guide. If you're looking to pay around a fiver or less for an LED light ...

Can You Mix ‘n Match Transformers With LED Lights?

Can You Mix 'n Match Transformers With LED Lights? 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 still appear to work (until it's too late of course). So anyway, back to the original question, ...

How To Use LED Lighting In Your Own Home

Using LED Lighting In Your Own Home But if you're like most people then your first problem is in figuring out where and how to start. Both bricks and mortar and online retailers of led bulbs seem pathologically intent on confusing the bejesus out of their would be customers with a mix that's heavy on hype and jargon and light on straightforward basic information. So you set off to find a nice new super energy efficient LED light bulb to replace say that 50W halogen lamp that's blown (yet again) and ...

What To Look For When Buying LED Spotlights

What To Look For When Buying LED Spotlights In fact, you may want to consider replacing existing low voltage lighting with mains powered GU10 led bulbs since (unlike incandescent lighting where the higher current on low voltage systems creates brighter light) there is very little visible difference between mains powered and 12v LED lights. The LED light bulbs ...