Revitalizing Fluorescent Lamps With Fluorescent Light Covers
Posted on July 14, 2009
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| Nowadays fluorescent lights gain more and more popularity. A fluorescent lamp is almost 20 times more energy-saving in comparison to the usual incandescent lamp. It also has a longer working period – up to 10 000 hours. When fluorescent lights first came into use they worked with the help of a special throttle starting controller, that made a buzzing noise that was quite distracting and diminishing the desire to use such lamps. But later on an electric starting controller was invented and fluorescent lights became noise-free. It looked like nothing could stop people from using them again in table lamps, pendants, sconces and other lighting devices. |
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| Nevertheless, some other disadvantages were found. Fluorescent lamps have some different shades of light that can be used according to one’s needs. Daylight lamps provide us a natural perception of colors, lamps with a bright white light are used in places where it is necessary to combine natural and artificial light, lamps of a warm white light are used in different interiors in order to create cozy and warm atmosphere. But anyway, the light of a fluorescent lamp is too bright and creates a certain tension on our eyes, that’s why a fluorescent lamp should be always used with a matt lampshade. Moreover, we have to be very careful about disposing a used fluorescent lamp: every lamp has a certain small amount of mercury inside. And though it is safe to use this lamp, we should always check that such lamps were disposed properly and clean up and dispose the mercury if we somehow managed to break a lamp. |
| While the presence of mercury is the fact we have to put up with, there are some great ideas of fluorescent light covers. There are fluorescent light diffusers imprinted with the look of a blue sky, clouds, ocean water, jets, and so on—intended to replace fluorescent panels that leave a harsher glare. Some companies offer a range of artistic fluorescent light diffuser panels, including sky scenes, panels mimicking the look of stained glass windows, mosaics, stone marble designs, ornamental iron, and other interesting designs, that you can check right here. Isn’t in a great idea for your office? |
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Kitchen Lighting: Making Your Food Even More Delicious
Posted on July 6, 2009
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| The food is judged not only by its taste but by its look also, that is why a proper lighting of your kitchen will certainly improve your appetite. |
| Kitchen lighting can be relatively divided into two types – the ceiling lighting and the extra lighting. The ceiling lighting provide your kitchen with equally distributed dispersed light, its main goal is to maintain a lit kitchen area in the evening and, if the kitchen has no windows, to replace the natural lighting. Such lighting can be created with the help of ceiling lamps, pendants and spotlights that can change the direction of the light beam when needed. |
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| But sometimes it’s very difficult to guess how much lighting you’ll need for your kitchen, so it instead of lighting the whole kitchen area with the same source of light you may try and concentrate certain lights on certain kitchen areas: cooking zone, dining table and a bar stand (if there is one). Providing a good lighting for your cooking area is very important, you may use single ceiling lamps or inbuilt lights situated above the cupboards. If you use ceiling lamps – make sure they are hanged not too low; otherwise you may find it difficult to open the cupboards. If your kitchen’s ceiling is quite low, don’t stuff it with different lighting sources, you can place some diminutive lights in the furniture itself. Some of the pieces have special places – cornices for them. |
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| Lighting the dining table is also essential and you shouldn’t get away with the ceiling lighting only. If the table is placed close to a wall, then you may use a wall light to brighten the area. A modern solution is to place a range of pendants on long stems above the table, but if you like to move your table, than a high table lamp with a thick lampshade might help. It will decorate the table and provide soft soothing lighting. |
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| In any case, make sure that the kitchen lighting doesn’t make your food look unnatural. Soft and well-chosen lighting will make your meals look tasty and create a good kitchen atmosphere. |
Types Of Lamps: From The First Bulb To Modern Diodes
Posted on June 30, 2009
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Just like a diamond needs a decent setting, so does your home need a well-organized lighting. The first rule of the lighting design says that there should be two types of lighting: the main and the accentuating. Main lighting is created by powerful lamps that give us a diffused light. Accentuating lighting is made with a variety of lamps that help to create a certain design and emphasizes the special appeal of each room.
Nowadays we use three types of lamps: electric incandescent lamps, or bulbs, halogen lamps and fluorescent lamps.
Bulbs were the first electric lamps that still serve our needs. Their light is considered to be optimal for our eyes, but they have one huge disadvantage: only 5% of the energy is used on producing light, the other 95 % are turned into heat.
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| Later halogen lamps appeared that turn almost the whole energy into light. Moreover they are good at saving energy: an 11 Watt halogen lamp provides the same lighting a 50-60 Watt bulb does. But they have their drawbacks, too: they flicker, buzz and wear out our eyes and mind quickly. Though today engineers have managed to remove these drawbacks, and you can find a great variety of lights with halogen lamps – like halogen bath wall lamps by Illuminating Experiences. |
| Fluorescent lamps are also popular because the beam of light can be directed on certain working places. Their merit is that they possess great capacity but use the minimum of electricity. But fluorescent lamps need a transformer, which makes the price for such lighting quite high. On the other hand – a fluorescent lamp serve twice longer than a halogen lamp, which makes the price quite reasonable. |
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| The market is being conquered by lamps with diodes recently. They don’t heat up, and require a low voltage. They can work without pauses during 90 000 hours, which allows to embed them in walls or use them for the outdoor lighting. In the picture you can see Floor diode lamps at the Arab World Institute in Paris.They are also very solid and can’t be broken even if you step on them. But their function is decorative only because of the comparatively small capacity. |
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