LANDSCAPE LIGHTING | An Architect Explains
Beautifully designed landscape lighting adds charm and elegance to your home. Landscape lighting is a low voltage lighting system. It
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LIGHTING | An Architect Explains
Lighting is an important aspect of all interior and exterior designs. Proper, well designed lighting is absolutely essential for a room to be functionally and aesthetically perfect and to enhance task performance whereas there can be wastage of energy and adverse health effects if the lighting is poorly designed. An Architect explains the different types of lamps and lighting fixtures and how you can use them in your house efficiently and strategically to create a good ambience and correct amount of light………
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LIGHTING LAMPS | An Architect Explains
A lamp is a replaceable component such as an incandescent light bulb, which is designed to produce light from electricity. These components usually have a base of ceramic, metal, glass or plastic, which makes an electrical connection in the socket of a light fixture. This connection may be made with a screw-thread base, two metal pins, 2 metal caps or a bayonet cap. There are more than 200 Lamp types today……
Read moreOUTDOOR LIGHTING FIXTURES | An Architect Explains
A lighting fixture designed for outdoor use and engineered to handle the elements is called an oudoor light. Outdoor lighting
Read morePORTABLE LIGHT FIXTURES | An Architect Explains
Portable lamps are lights (or lamps) that can be picked up, moved and plugged in wherever there is an electrical
Read morePENDANT LIGHT FIXTURES | An Architect Explains
A Pendant is a single, shaded light fixture that hangs from the ceiling, usually suspended by a cord, chain or
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CEILING LIGHT FIXTURES | An Architect Explains
Ceiling Lights are light fixtures that are attached directly to the ceiling. They are commonly used for providing good ‘general
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LIGHTING FIXTURES | An Architect Explains
A light fixture is an electrical device used to create artificial light and/or illumination. A light fixture provides directed light and helps to avoid the visual glare of a naked bulb. Lighting fixtures come in a wide variety of styles. Some are very plain and functional, while some are by themselves, pieces of art. Any material can be used in the light fixture, so long as it can tolerate the excess heat of some types of lamps……
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LED (LIGHT EMITTING DIODE) LAMP | An Architect Explains
A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction
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SODIUM VAPOUR LAMP | An Architect Explains
Like in a Metal Halide lamp, the working principle of a Sodium Vapour lamp is that of a gas-discharge tube,
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METAL HALIDE LAMP | An Architect Explains
Metal Halide Lamps are gas-discharge tubes like the fluorescent tubelight and the CFLs, in which an electric arc is discharged
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HALOGEN LAMP | An Architect Explains
Halogens are Incandescent Lamps where the tungsten filament is enclosed in a transparent glass envelope, filled with an inert gas
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FLUORESCENT TUBELIGHT LAMP | An Architect Explains
A fluorescent lamp or fluorescent tube light is a gas discharge lamp. It consists of a phosphor-coated glass tube with
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COMPACT FLUORESCENT LAMP (CFL) | An Architect Explains
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL), also known as a compact fluorescent light bulb, is basically a fluorescent tube light wound or
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INCANDESCENT LAMP | An Architect Explains
The Incandescent lamp also known as electric lamp or Filament lamp, but better known as the Electric Bulb is a
Read moreWALL LIGHT FIXTURE | An Architect Explains
A Wall Light / Sconce is an indoor, decorative lighting fixture that is placed on walls to accent them or
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