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LED LIGHTING FOR HOME FURNITURE

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The modern lighting technology sees the LED as the main protagonist. There are several solutions that can be implemented thanks to this type of lighting, especially if the furniture in your home is to be illuminated. Any practical examples? Let's take as an example the kitchen, in which the lighting could be made to arrive from a sub-cabinet of variable length depending on the size of the work area. Or again, think of a classic worktop, perhaps placed inside a studio: the ideal would be to have an adjustable LED lamp or a row of spotlights, which will have to fully satisfy the needs of lighting that a studio needs to be able to work in maximum comfort. In the case of the lamp, we recommend a central installation with respect to the work surface, but always elevated (eg: on the ceiling). Similar discourse for spotlights. 1.      The objectives of lighting for furniture 2.      LED lighting for wooden furniture The objectives of ligh...

HOW TO DISPOSE OF OLD LIGHT BULBS

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Neapolitan professor Bellavista DOC used to store light bulbs and then throw them off the balcony at New Year's. These produced a bang similar to firecrackers, but they were much cheaper and less dangerous. Since the 1980s, the time has passed and Professor Bellavista is now of the idea that bulbs that are no longer working should not be thrown from the balcony, but disposed of with care. The light sources today feed a market of 130 million pieces of fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps, LED lights and incandescent bulbs, now almost in disuse given the high costs of production and consumption. Disposal as for almost all materials, is regulated by the current dispositions to safeguard the environment, but also the economic implications of the material of consultation are not negligible: in 2016 over 97% of the disused bulbs have been recovered. As evidence of the business related to the collection of exhausted light bulbs, there is the constitution of numerous consortia fo...

INDIRECT LED LIGHTING: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO GET IT?

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Lighting is a fundamental element in a building, both from an architectural and functional point of view and from that of furnishing: in fact, it makes the rooms usable and enhances the context. There are different ways that can be adopted and the one that is spreading more and more consists of indirect lighting. 1 What is indirect lighting? 2 What are the advantages you get? What is indirect lighting? It is characterized by the fact that the light sources are not in full view, but are hidden: consequently, the light is diffused in the environment by reflection on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling or on the furniture depending on the direction of the light beam. Indirect lighting is more expensive than direct lighting but eliminates the formation of shadows and glare. The result is homogeneous lighting, greater visual comfort, and a more pleasant atmosphere. It is also possible to choose between warm, cold and colored lights depending on the result you want to have. H...

VERANDA LIGHTING: HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT LIGHTS

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When you have a veranda, you often run into doubt about what the right lighting system to install can be. The use of LED lights to illuminate a veranda is one of the most appropriate methods, both for the simplicity of installation and for the result of brightness. 1.      How to light a veranda 2.      Illuminate a wooden veranda 3.      What are the right lights? How to light a veranda The type of lighting to be adopted for your veranda varies, especially based on whether the veranda is completely open and, therefore, subject to external factors such as rain, fog, and wind, or that has a minimum of protection, for example with windows and sliding doors. This difference is of vital importance since depending on the contractor, not of the humidity, you will have to choose to light with different LED lights. In the case of a closed and protected veranda, it will be possible to use the LED strips with IP20 prote...

WHAT ARE LUMENS IN LED LIGHTING?

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"They have already switched off the light, I am the only one left", so the Dik Dik sang on Mogol's text reinterpreting the 1967 song by Procol Harum: in fact, however, is it so romantic to be at home without light? We bought lots of light bulbs with maximum vassaggio, done a lot of tests, but in fact, our house continues to be a little dark. In short, there is something that does not work. 1.      How to illuminate, units of measurement and technologies 2.      Watts and Lux 3.      Lumens 4.      Calculation and use of lumens and room types 5.      The led, this stranger 6.      Show me what led you have and I'll tell you which Kelvin and Cri you use 7.      I finally found the light How to illuminate, units of measurement and technologies But what and how can it be illuminated? First, we need to understand the type of light s...