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LED Down Lights

Using downlights to light up mirrors in the bedroom or bathroom works very well, mainly when trying to apply make-up and shaving. The kitchen where task lighting for food preparation is needed, under cabinetry to light up the bench-top and the ceiling to light up the kitchen island. Also recommended is to keep downlights on separate switches, not all lighting needs to be on when going to the fridge to consume a quick snack. The boundary of rooms such as the living room, artwork and pictures can be highlighted and down-lights over an armchair, where reading takes place are also great places to install downlights.

LED Benefits

Energy Efficient – L.E.D downlights are evidently more energy efficient than your hot halogen globes. Your L.E.D downlights have a lifespan of 30,000 to 50,000 hours compared to your halogen downlights of 1000 hours. Up to 80% energy savings can be made when replacing your
halogen downlights to the energy efficient L.E.D downlights.

Save On Maintenance Costs – A common problem with halogen downlights is the constant changing of globes. One of the qualities of the energy efficient downlight is they have a longer life, up to 10 years or more lighting hours.

Reduced Fire Risk – The heat produced by the halogen globe can reach up to 200c making it to hot to touch. When switching a halogen globe on, it instantly produces only 20% of light with the other 80% turning to heat. If anything above the ceiling was to come into contact with the 80% of wasteful heat, especially cabling, could result in a fire. A way of preventing this to happen is to install L.E.D downlights.

Environmentally Friendly – L.E.D downlights do not contain any mercury or any other harmful gases and do not emit any damaging UV rays.

Inexpensive – When most people are thinking of changing their globes, cost is the biggest factor in making their decision. Buying one L.E.D globe will last you 10 times that compared to buying a dozen that keep burning out over the same period of time. So in the long run spending the bigger money today will have substantial savings in the future and that does not include the running costs of electricity for the halogen type globes.

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What you need to know when choosing L.E.D Downlights

Choosing The Right LED Light For Your Home

With a staggering amount of different brand types of downlights in today’s market, it can be quite daunting choosing the correct L.E.D
downlight for your home. There’s a great deal to consider when deciding on buying downlights compared to your incandescent or halogen globe. From choosing the right location, to how much wattage will be needed, will they be dimmable or non-dimmable, what shade of colour, a narrow or wide beam angle and of course what do you want your downlights to do.

Location . Downlights can be positioned to provide light on a specific spot within a room or a number of downlights can be integrated to light up an entire area. Also worth noting, installing downlights to close to a wall will create shadows that can end up making a room look smaller than it already is.

Colour Temperature

– Selecting the right colour temperature is a personal choice as will help set the ambience of the room. Colour temperature is how the light looks coming from the downlight and is measured in degrees, kelvin. Most L.E.D downlights come in tri-colour and have 3 selector switches to choose from to see what colour suits your needs, warm white, cool white and natural white.

  • Warm white – 3000k
  • Cool white – 4000k
  • Natural white – 5000k

Lumen & Wattage – The higher the lumens the brighter the light while your wattage only measures the amount of energy used to produce the light. A standard 9 watt down-light will produce 7 – 9 hundred lumens depending on the light colour. When replacing halogen or incandescent bulbs to L.E.D always compare the lumens and not the wattage. If replacing a 50 watt halogen globe, an L.E.D downlight of 9 – 12 watts that produces about 800 lumens will be a sufficient amount of illumination to replace that halogen globe.

Dimming your lighting
installations

A dimmer switch works on the principal of reducing lighting levels to your light fixture. A dimmer offers smooth control, silent running and soft start that will enhance the life of your L.E.D downlights.

Always check when buying downlights that your transformer/driver is an electronic device which has been designed to work with a dimmer switch. Using a dimmer switch with a non dimmable transformer will cause lighting to flicker and switch off while being dimmed.

The brand of downlights we offer comes with a 5 year warranty from the date of purchase. It uses 9 watts of energy and produces 800 – 900 lumens depending on the light colour you choose. Has the 3

selector switches on the back giving you the option of choosing between warm white 3000k, natural white 4000k and cool white 6000k. It is IC approved meaning insulation can be rolled near or over the downlight. And finally it is dimmable, has a 90 degree beam angle and the L.E.D driver comes integrated with the downlight.

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