Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 341Jun 22, 2017 12:01 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 344Jun 23, 2017 7:40 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 346Jun 26, 2017 7:14 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 349Jul 29, 2017 9:30 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 353Oct 14, 2017 4:16 pm LED strips under the kitchen overheads and as a feature under the Island Benchtop ..................... Yeah, OK, blame "The Block" and just about every 'modern' display home, but Mrs P_D wants these in our new build . So every time you see 'em on The Block or in the display homes they're always "ON". For those of you who have them in real life, how do you control them in practice ? Do you just have a regular switch where you turn them on in the middle of the day if you have friends coming around who you want to impress ? Do you have them on a timer so they come on at (around) sunset and stay on until (say) midnight-ish ?? What about the ones in the bathroom, say under the vanity unit and in the shower niche ?? Thanks, P_D. . Block settled 07 June 2011 Our little piece of the Interwebs on HomeOne....... viewtopic.php?f=31&t=48577&start=0 Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 354Oct 25, 2017 5:28 pm Pepsi_Drinker LED strips under the kitchen overheads and as a feature under the Island Benchtop ..................... Yeah, OK, blame "The Block" and just about every 'modern' display home, but Mrs P_D wants these in our new build . So every time you see 'em on The Block or in the display homes they're always "ON". For those of you who have them in real life, how do you control them in practice ? Do you just have a regular switch where you turn them on in the middle of the day if you have friends coming around who you want to impress ? Do you have them on a timer so they come on at (around) sunset and stay on until (say) midnight-ish ?? What about the ones in the bathroom, say under the vanity unit and in the shower niche ?? Thanks, P_D. Just a regular light switch as you would for a ceiling light. You could have them on timers but personally I wouldn't want that 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 355Nov 01, 2017 7:27 am First of all, thank you for this thread. Lighting is probably one of the most confusing things about building a new house and definitely one i know least about. Can you please take a look at my lighting plan? I have opted for downlight provisions in living areas and standard batten light in bedrooms. Downlights are denoted by MB on the image below. I want to buy and get an electrician to install downlights after handover so I have more choice. I also have a provision for pendant lighting above kitchen island bench. - What kind of downlights would best suit the set up below? - What about external lights, any suggestions on good brands, models? Cheers, Stefano Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 357Jan 15, 2018 8:58 pm Hi, you are a blessing to most of us here. Thanks for this thread, I have learned heaps. But still I am not very confident with my electrical planning. I am just overwhelmed with the information, and such short time to plan this thing I hope you could spare a few minutes to breeze through my electrical plan. I still feel lost especially on the placement part. Would really appreciate your inputs. Legend: Just the circle means batten light Circle with X (either red or black) means LED downlight (9w, no other specifications given at this point, only wattage) Note that for the first floor, we are planning to convert the standard batten lights to LED downlights after handover, so you will see some odd combos here and there. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thanks in advance for your time, really appreciate and happy to have found this thread. I hope there are other lighting engineers like you in here. Cheers! Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 358Mar 01, 2018 8:02 pm Hi 1960sModernistHome What interior garage motion sensor do you recommend getting? Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 359Sep 28, 2018 3:42 pm Hi Guys, Reading the thread and planning for electrical appointment, Builders range Down lights are useless so thinking to get only provision for down lights and then will buy myself and hire an electrician to place the down lights. Just a quick question - with provision of down lights, do we need to notify builder to keep anything in consideration like Size/wattage etc just for the compatibility purpose to install down lights post hand over ? Re: Ask a lighting design engineer - general Q&A 360Oct 02, 2018 7:11 pm Great thread! I found the following things trending: 1) wireless light switches which can be positioned anywhere on the wall save a lot in light switch box/conduits installation costs; 2) Amazon/Google Home wi-fi light switches, helping you to turn on/off lights downstairs/upstairs without leaving your bed. Can also help to reduce the number of light switches in your house. 3) replacing your traditional data points with just additional power point and run your data over your power cables - you could literally save a fortune here; 4) wireless cheap motion based lights which can be attached anywhere and use rechargeable batteries - save tons on installation costs. You might require re-charging them once a year, depending on the usage patterns. 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