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Good or bad lighting can just about transform the complete look and feel of your home. While you may have spent a fortune on buying the most contemporary living room furniture, all your money spent can be less than adequately reflected if the lighting is not correct. Good lighting focuses on being functional and elegant at the same time.
Bedroom: This room deserves the right mix of functionality and a chic look. You are going to spend your nights here, and need adequately bright lights to do your work. Fluorescent lights are great in terms of whiteness of the light and energy efficiency, thus keeping your subsequent electricity bills low as well. CFLs are an option that are smart and come in a large variety of designs to suit every need.
The lighting needs to complement your bedroom furniture. Keep a night lamp on the bedside tables for night time reading. Have a focus light just above your dressing mirror, to light up your face well while dressing.
Living room: The first thing to see is the size of your living room. Is it large sized and has vast open spaces, or does it have just about adequate space to place your leather recliners with little to spare? In the former case, you should best go for soft lighting to enhance the areas you want to accentuate.
Have a special painting or artifact you recently purchased? Place it where it draws the maximum attention and enhance it greatly by a focus light. Keep the rest of the lighting around these specific points or articles comparatively dim, so as not to take the attention away. While you are at it, pop into any furniture store to get some good ideas – see the way they display their wares.
If your house has limited space, and your living room just about adequate to seat a few people, no sweat still. Bright lighting is what the doctor prescribed for your room, and will make your room look larger than it is. A light focused on the ceiling would give it a higher and larger look. Combine the corner lamp with a stand to showcase some of the collection you made during your last holiday to the beach – just make sure you limit your display to reasonable sized pieces that do not look outlandish in the small space reserved for them.
The Attic: The attic would generally be filled with stuff that you do not normally require. Yet you do not feel like throwing it away as you feel you may need it sometime. It is for these moments that you need adequate bright lights in the attic. You need not spend money on fancy lights here – need the place to be functionally bright enough.
If you have converted the attic to a children study, or the art studio you always wanted to explore your talent with, there would be specific lighting requirements for each.
You may choose bright colored lamp shades in case of a children room. Keep a switch close to the platform beds for the children to use the lights without much discomfort.
Your requirements for a hobby room would be more simple, but functional, and would fit the exact need for the specific hobby – be it painting, or carpentry. The lighting should facilitate the functional requirements, and must complement your furniture.
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There has always been much discussion of the pros and cons of incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs. To further confuse things, CFL (compact fluorescent lights) and LEDs have joined the argument.
Incandescent bulbs are so called because of the heat produced. Incandescence means to glow with heat. Inside the bulb, there is a partial vacuum with a tungsten filament inside it. When energy is pumped through the wire, the electrons react and there is resistance. Then, the filament will get so hot it will glow.
The inner coating of the bulb diffuses the brightness of the light that the filament produces. Some bulbs do have clear glass, but this only changes the look, and not the way the bulb operates.
The idea behind the light bulb is to simulate the wavelength of the rays given off by the sun. The main factor in determining this is the sun’s surface temperature, which is about 6,000 Kelvin. In Celsius, that would about 5,700 degrees. The formula is K = C + 273. The more commonly known measurement would be 10,300F. This transfers to light bulbs in something known as color temperature.
For the interior, the bulbs have a slightly bluer tint to its light. This means that the color temperature will be a bit less also. Color temperature is actually different from real temperature. When an incandescent bulb glows, it will be anywhere from 120F-200F or more. To get a feel for how hot that is, water boils at 220F or 100C.
Fluorescent bulbs are different so they do not give out as much heat.
Fluorescent bulbs consist of gases or vapor such as mercury and electrodes. One end of the electrode receives some voltage, which is then propelled toward the other end. Along the way, it makes contact with the mercury atoms. This gives energy to the mercury atoms, which is released as the light we see.
The amount of energy lost is almost negligible and thus little heat is produced. For this reason, fluorescent bulbs are a much more efficient form of light. It just means that their energy output is equal to the energy input.
The light that comes from incandescent bulbs is due to the filament actually burning white hot. More heat is being given off than there is light. The issue at stake is that most of the energy consumed for the bulb does not translate into light.
Fluorescents have always been known to produce a different looking light than incandescents. This is because they operate at a different color temperature and spectrum. Fluorescent lighting was usually used in basements and garages before the advent of CFLs.
A fluorescent bulb tends to cost more than an incandescent bulb by at least 3 - 10 times. It’s up to you to decide which is better for you, paying less for a bulb that doesn’t last as long (750-1000 hours), or paying more for a bulb that will last longer (6,000-15,000). Your overall savings for fluorescent bulbs will be about 70%. this includes the electric bill and the initial purchase price.
People do argue about the environmental cost of the different types of light. When compared to other factors, such as auto exhaust and industrial gases, it really has no impact at all. Actually, the amount is negligible and isn’t a point to consider.
The decision is usually based on an individual’s likes or dislikes. This and your budget will be the biggest factors, at least until you learn about LEDs.
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Pi kappa alpha fluorescent light panel creates the effect of artwork in homes and provides an instant face-lift in any room either in office or home. The light panels add soothing, satisfying and colorful dimension to fluorescent lighting in a house, office or clinic. These light panels are highly efficient yet available from the market within budget. These are perfect for health and medical communities due to the overall pleasing qualities. In hospitals and medical facilities pi kappa alpha fluorescent light panels are used in relieving patient anxiety. The pi kappa alpha are designed in such a way that light rays are diffused equally through it and gives a pleasant atmosphere in the room.
So, try to brighten up your home and office by using pi kappa alpha decorative fluorescent light panels. Use them inside the rooms and even in lobbies and get rid of dull and yellowing fluorescent light diffusers. The bulbs that are used in the light diffusers provide brightest white backlit effect, full spectrum color-corrected and a beautiful daylight balance.
this is for a 20 gallon freshwater tank with a couple of goldfish. I have been using a regular 15W light bulb but the whole socket, etc. broke and I’m wondering if I should replace it with a fluorescent bulb or just keep it as a regular light bulb. Thank you!
Oh, I forgot to mention — all the plants in there are plastic. I had some problems with algae but got rid of all it with algae killer and cleaning the tank.. it’s all under control now. The tank is in indirect sunlight so they do get some light at least.
Incandescent light bulbs produce light through heat: an electric current passes through a thin filament, heating it up. The heat makes the filament white-hot, producing the light that you see. 90% of the energy used to create the heat that lights an incandescent bulb is wasted.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs use a different technology: they contain a gas that produces invisible ultraviolet light (UV) when the gas is put in the presence of electricity. The UV light hits the white coating inside the fluorescent bulb and the coating changes it into light you can see. Because fluorescent bulbs don’t use heat to create light, they are far more energy-efficient than regular incandescent bulbs.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, if every household in the United States replaced just ONE regular incandescent light bulb with an Energy Star approved compact fluorescent bulb (CFL) we’d save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
Such a savings is possible because a fluorescent bulb creates light using an entirely different method that is far more energy-efficient, in fact, 4-6 times more efficient. This means that you can buy a 15-watt compact fluorescent bulb that produces the same amount of light as a 60-watt regular incandescent bulb.
ENERGY STAR qualified lighting provides bright, warm light but uses about 75% less energy than standard lighting, produce 75 percent less heat (cutting energy costs associated with home cooling), and lasts up to 10 times longer. They save about $30 or more in electricity costs over each bulb’s lifetime, and are available in different sizes and shapes to fit in almost any fixture, for indoors and outdoors.
As for drawbacks, CFLs don’t operate well in frigid conditions, limiting their use for exterior lighting in cold areas. But the biggest problem with them is their mercury content. It’s recommended to recycle CFL bulbs, since breaking or incinerating them releases mercury into the air. The poisonous metal can then find its way into soil, water, fish and fish-eating humans.
The mercury problem can be avoided through proper handling and recycling of the bulbs. Other than that, considering that lighting accounts for roughly 7% of the average lighting bill (compact fluorescents will reduce that by over half), CFLs make sense for just about everybody, both financially and environmentally.
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The history of light has not reached its end as of yet. In fact, it has been revolutionized by the new compact fluorescent bulbs now in the market. These new fluorescent bulbs give consumers an alternative to the old halogen light bulbs. Halogen light bulbs are variants of the original incandescent light bulb invented by Thomas Edison. Like incandescent bulbs, halogen bulbs are outdated and grossly inefficient. They are also very hazardous, although they are cheap and therefore convenient; they have the ability to create costly damages.
How Halogen Bulbs Work
The reason halogen bulbs are so ineffective and dangerous is in how they make energy. Like incandescent bulbs, they generate energy to create light. The problem, however, is that all the energy they create is not used effectively. Most of the energy created actually causes the bulb to emanate heat reaching extreme temperatures, which can cause burns or even ignite fires, instead of being used for lighting purposes. This in turns means that most of the energy used is wasted, dangerous, and ineffective.
Fluorescent Bulbs Solve the Issues of Halogens
The fluorescent bulb on the other hand solves all three issues. Compact fluorescent bulbs do not use heat to produce lighting but instead use a variety of gasses and electricity. This in turn means that they don’t heat up as much as their counterparts and are safer to use. In fact, several Universities have opted to use these bulbs over the halogen bulbs to prevent accidents.
Not only do these bulbs produce light more effectively but they are more cost effective. Their initial cost may be higher but their long term cost saves money in the end. For example, a halogen bulb can last up to two years whereas fluorescent bulbs have a life of up to five years! It seems well worth it to invest in fluorescent bulbs over the highly inefficient halogen and incandescent bulbs.
Weighing the Pros and Cons
When the two bulbs are compared, it becomes obvious which one is superior. Yet, as life has it, everything does have its advantages and disadvantages. The fluorescent bulb does hold one consequence: mercury. One of the gasses found in these bulbs is mercury, a contaminant. To this one problem, the fluorescent bulb has two pros though, by being more energy efficient it should reduce the amount of mercury production and can serve as an option to going green, a step to prevent global warming.
It seems as though there are trade-offs to either scenario, but when you factor in all the environmental benefits, monetary and energy saving benefits, and the safety benefits, I think you will agree that fluorescent light bulbs are the lighting technology of the future.