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Not all parts for every fixture are sourced from overseas. When you pay top dollar, you are buying better performance:a. Quality reflector coating...
Not all parts for every fixture are sourced from overseas. When you pay top dollar, you are buying better performance:a. Quality reflector coating...
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ViewsHold onto your pocketbook, here are my recommendations:For cheap, cheap, I like Nora lighting. A lot of trim options and a variety of aperture siz...
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ViewsTry leaving the downlights in place, and merely add the pendants you want. You can put them on separate circuits and use the downlights (or not) a...
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ViewsThis is a little different, but why don't you put three sconces down the hallway and bounce light off the ceiling. Downlighting leaves the ceiling...
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ViewsYou want to lower a chandelier? Or lower a lighting system of recessed lights? Chandelier lowering devices are typically not seen, and are locate...
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ViewsDepends on how large your room/window/mantle combination is. I have this old family secret (my grandfather was an electrician) that I will share w...
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ViewsTurn off power (duh) and open the fixture. There is probably a black brick of a ballast on the inside with two red and two blue wires, a black, wh...
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ViewsEveryone is right and everyone is wrong. The best solution is a mix of lamps. Recessed compact fluorescent downlights (horizontal lamps for more ...
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ViewsIn my (extensive) experience with fiber optics, it is overrated unless you're going to install it in a theme park lava pit or animated signage. Un...
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ViewsOnly if the mogul base adapter is made for a 3-way lamp. I know that sounds like a smart ass answer, but the 3-way light uses three contacts inste...
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ViewsBar light, huh? I don't know what that means. Why don't you try using regular track lighting over the entire bar length, then order some of the d...
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ViewsHuh, huh. Pot. Awesom.
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ViewsThey do make those office fixtures that you're thinking about in single lamp fixtures, but you have to go to a wholesaler and order them. $$$
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ViewsCan lights can provide the coverage that you're looking for, but you would have to purchase high performance fixtures, with optics optimized for an...
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ViewsSorry, but that is still (3) switches no matter how you slice it.
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ViewsTo eliminate any interference with television, computer, phone signals, you really want to keep line and low voltage min. 12" apart, preferably 18"...
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ViewsWithout the special tool, you've got a pocketfull of plastic widgets. They wimply won't work without the tool.Hope you can spare an arm and a leg...
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Views...and if the fixture is not IC rated, then you will have to keep the insulation 3" away from the fixture can.
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ViewsAs a courtesy, I like to install switched outlets upside down, with the switched leg undernieth. Kinds of a flag for the next guy that can't figur...
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