Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 2Oct 03, 2015 5:39 pm Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 4Oct 03, 2015 10:42 pm Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 6Oct 04, 2015 11:38 am Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 13Oct 05, 2015 9:21 pm 18/03/15 Deposit 02/09/15 CDC 22/09/15 Slab 05/12/15 Frames 15/12/15 Brick started. 11/04/16 Roof start 04/05/16 Roof finish 09/07/16 Gyprock. Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 15Oct 08, 2015 4:48 pm Hi, Thank you for your kind offer. We are in the process of building a new house and about to start rough-in electrical. We have an opportunity to make a few changes with the electrical company to our lighting/electrical plan. I have attached our electrical plan for the two floors. We are planning to get a mix of down lights and pendants. We would also have bedside/floor lamps/table lamps as required. There are some changes in lighting I have noted in the original plan - Additional down blights in bed 5 on the ground floor - additional external light between kitchen and dining - additional down lights in the bathroom and master ensuite. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Do you have any suggestions for improvement? Also with down lights we have been considering a few options. We are really keen the down light to be very discrete (85-90mm diameter), white, IP rating of 44 and not have too much glare as they are going in bedrooms and living areas. We have 2.7m ceiling. As we are planning to get nice pendants we don't want the down lights to stand out. The only light we have seen so far that's friendly on our budget (below $30) is the below Domus light. https://www.golights.com.au/led-downlig ... s-lighting Our only concern is if 8w is bright enough? We will be getting warm white. On average we are having about 1 down light for 3 sqm (i.e 12 sqm room has 4) Thanks in advance viewtopic.php?t=78985 Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 16Oct 08, 2015 8:02 pm Okay, I'm just going to do a bullet point list room by room as I see it. This is purely my opinion... nothing you have done jumps as to me as being "wrong" - just offering my suggestions for improvements... A lot of these things are just handy tips that I have implemented on various homes of my own over the years and have found to be good things. Dining Locate the downlights near parts of solid wall, about 500mm off the wall to shine on paintings etc. Use tilt adjustable downlights with about a 30-45 degree beam. Kitchen Shift the row of 3 downlights closer to your overheads - probably about in line with the edge of your bench top. You want the light to light up your cupboards and bench - not the floor Consider LED strip profile lighting under overhead cupboards to shine on bench, and/or below benchtop on island bench for feature. Family Similar to the dining, I would position the downlights where I want them to shine on wall hangings. You'll find that if you shine them toward the wall you will get enough reflected light in the room to provide ample ambient light - after all, it's just a family room, you won't be doing open heart surgery in there also maybe consider dimmers Outdoor room I would be wary about putting pendants outdoors. I think they will get damaged by the weather and will probably degrade quite quickly. Garage Consider having a motion sensor so the light in the garage comes on automatically. The lights on the door openers are pathetic. Bathroom/Powder I would steer away from pendants in here and go for functional light. Also, you cannot have pendants above a bath or shower (despite what you see on TV shows like The Block - it does not comply with AS3000 Wiring Rules and is both illegal and unsafe - I have had the same argument with interior designers more times than I can remember) Bed 1 I would position the ceiling fan so that it is over the centre of your bed. We also have a large master bedroom, I resisted the urge to put it in the centre of the room and put it over the centre of the bed instead - very glad we did, it works much better. In the smaller bedrooms it doesn't matter really. I would have the fan controller next to the bed, or get a remote controlled fan - so you don't need to get out of bed during the night to turn the fan on/off I would have a 3 way switching for the main bedroom lights, one next to the door, and one on each side of the bed I have Clipsal USB charging sockets integrated into our light switches on either side of the bed for charging mobile phones. The light switches, USB sockets and general power sockets are all built in to our built-in bed head/bedsides. These light switches are only about 700mm off the ground so you can reach them laying in bed. Downlights I have some of the Domus Deco 13w in corridors in my home. They are well priced and very bright, but very glarey. I picked them up for about $26ea. Despite them being glarey, I think they would be fine for the other bedrooms, corridors, utility rooms etc. Maybe you could reduce the quantity of downlights in bedrooms to 2 and use the 13w versions, which will save you some money. Then you can put that money towards nicer low glare downlights for the living areas and your main bedroom. Here are some low glare options for you, probably around the $40-60 range: http://www.greenilluminate.com.au/produ ... /invis-10/ https://www.golights.com.au/led-downlig ... s-lighting https://www.golights.com.au/led-downlig ... s-lighting http://enlitelighting.com/Lighting-Prod ... light.aspx (this one is under $30 and is tilt adjustable - you could use this everywhere...) Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 17Oct 08, 2015 8:40 pm Thank you for all the great hints. Much appreciate I had not even thought of some of these items viewtopic.php?t=78985 Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 18Oct 09, 2015 10:33 am Thanks for your advice so far on this forum 1960sModernistHome. I have a quick question. I have ordered some domus down lights from your suggestions. I am installing in a new build. What is your opinion on using heat shields for the insulation? Or should I cut the insulation out around and protrude the downlight through? Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 19Oct 09, 2015 10:50 am This is probably not that helpful sorry, but my best advice is to follow the manufacturer's instructions (should be inside the Domus box when you open it up). The instructions should tell you how closely you can install the insulation, and whether a shroud is acceptable. In practice, LED downlights do not get anywhere near as hot as halogen downlights, so they are not a fire risk in that sense. But if you cover them with insulation it affects the heat disspation of the luminaire. The main issue with shrouding that I can see is that it may restrict heat disspation from the LED heat sink on the back of the downlight, which in turn may affect performance and possibly warranty or premature failures. Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14126 I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 15284 Ardo That is so funny! I wonder how many people know who Larry Haun is these days. I have a couple of young guys we call Mo 1 & Mo 2 who run a crew of 6 boys and… 9 15538 |