![]() The following doesn't follow the order I did things in at all, and also elides some missteps where I installed or bought the wrong equipment. The big constraint was that I didn't want to take down any ceilings or do anything structural. Which came to something over 1.4kW, not counting the patio or shed lights. The patio had ten 60 (?) watt incadescent multi-coloured party lights, of which only three were still working.The study had four 50 watt MR16 halogens and the ensuite one 20 watt MR16 halogen.The upper hallway, with two 5 watt compact fluorescents, and the nursery and main bedroom, with one 11 watt compact fluorescent each, were comparatively sanely lit.The bathroom had five 20 watt MR16 halogens (I use "MR16" to refer to MR16 reflectors with GU5.3 connectors, as seems to be common usage).The kitchen had four 60 watt R63 spotlight bulbs plus three 18 watt benchtop fluorescent bars and an 11 watt rangehood light the breakfast area had four dimmable 35 watt GU10 halogen spotlights. ![]() This provided decent light, but was unpleasantly bright. The sitting and dining room were lit with twenty one exposed 20 watt G4 halogens, nine of them in the sitting room and twelve in the dining room.Covering maybe two square metres, this made the hallway, even with only three of the lights working, the best lit area of the entire house. The entry hallway had five 40 watt GU10 halogens.And back then halogen downlights were popular. The lighting was I think put in by the owner before the previous owners, who did a lot of work himself. And they are directional, which means in some fittings they are brighter than simple lumen comparisons would suggest.īecause they generate so much heat, halogens are also a significant fire risk LEDs are considerably safer. They offer a broader range of colour temperatures: mostly "warm white" or "day white", but in some cases intermediate temperatures as well. They also last longer: lifetimes of 20 to 50,000 hours are common, against maybe 1000 hours for incandescents/halogens and 10,000 hours for compact fluorescents. One obvious advantage of LEDs is that they use way less electrical power: they are even more efficient than fluorescent lights.
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