Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design Re: Help needed with light fittings 2Sep 21, 2015 6:55 pm Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Help needed with light fittings 3Sep 21, 2015 6:58 pm Jen (& Dave) Plantation Bronte, Ormeau Ridge, Gold Coast QLD 12/03/2015 - Commencement... 26/08/2015 - Handover! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76446 Re: Help needed with light fittings 6Sep 22, 2015 1:11 am Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Help needed with light fittings 8Sep 24, 2015 3:58 pm We are getting few LED down lights from our builder. They use Beacon Lighting : http://www.beaconlighting.com.au/ledlux ... white.html Other than that I am thinking to get more down lights to be fitted by a sparky after the handover. I could see the Beacon ones are few dollars expensive, but comes with 5 years warranty and 4k rating. Others have got 3k or 5k ones only. I could see them having broader beam angle as well and also a shop front where we can replace rather than sending them back and pay for postage. Is there any place as well from where we can get the quality down lights at reasonable price? Re: Help needed with light fittings 9Sep 24, 2015 9:31 pm Check out the links in my post at the start of thos thread. I bought some Domus Deco 13W downlights from GoLights for my own house for $25ea. They are pretty good value. An apartment building that I designed the lighting and electrical for has just been completed where I specified about 2000 Domus Deco 13W downlights. They're not my ideal downlight but they are good value, and reasonably good quality and good light output. If you can stretch to the $50-60 mark then I would recommend the Domus Scoop or Domus Deep for living areas as they are far less glarey. I recommend 3000k for residential. Re: Help needed with light fittings 11Sep 25, 2015 5:54 pm I think glass diffuser will be too harsh. I saw the opal ones and they looked fine. Prefer 4k compared to 3k. So will keep beacon ones as selection. Re: Help needed with light fittings 12Sep 25, 2015 5:56 pm We have the Beacon 4000k with opal diffusers and they're not glarey at all, and a nice neutral colour, not too yellow or too clinical. Jen (& Dave) Plantation Bronte, Ormeau Ridge, Gold Coast QLD 12/03/2015 - Commencement... 26/08/2015 - Handover! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76446 Re: Help needed with light fittings 13Sep 25, 2015 6:17 pm Ilaeria We have the Beacon 4000k with opal diffusers and they're not glarey at all, and a nice neutral colour, not too yellow or too clinical. Agree to that. Currently they are for 33 or 34 if I remember. So not that much of price diff. You get perfect temp of 4k with 5 years of warranty and shop front where u can see them before buying. 5 dollars extra for that is worth it i suppose. Unless similar specs are available for cheap online. Re: Help needed with light fittings 14Sep 25, 2015 9:56 pm If you buy a house lot you'll get it cheaper than that. We paid about $25 each for ours. Sent from Tapatalk Jen (& Dave) Plantation Bronte, Ormeau Ridge, Gold Coast QLD 12/03/2015 - Commencement... 26/08/2015 - Handover! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76446 Re: Help needed with light fittings 15Sep 25, 2015 10:00 pm Not quite sure what you mean by "glass diffuser too harsh" as the ones with a deep reflector and clear glass cover are low glare. The LED chip is set back into the reflector and the clear glass does not refract any light. This is the closest style to the traditional halogen downlight (if that's what you like). It's actually borderline as to whether the flat opal diffuser type are even technically a "downlight" as they are more like a panel light, as they don't have any optical control. They're a cheap and relatively efficient way of spraying light all over the place, but not really good for visual comfort. I've used the flat opal diffused type in my hallways because I justwant light thrown around the place and into linen cupboards, but I wouldn't use them in my bedrooms or living areas personally. In those spaces I have the deepset style with 45 degree beam and some are wallwashers to shine on walls. Hi - thanks for your reply. Yes I think 'Ill go for whitish with very speckly bits rather than pure white something like this. PS was actually 2008 I built the… 2 11722 That was always going to be a challenge and a test of patience. Full marks to your mate. Did you discuss the wet area near the trampoline? 16 17381 It might be a bit darker in the mornings but the light is still light, so you should be getting it. Similar to what you see from your western windows 3 19995 |