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Choosing the Best LED Recessed Lighting: What You Should Know

Recessed lighting is easily one of the most practical and functional additions you can make to your home or commercial building. Recessed lighting — often referred to as downlighting or can lights — is designed to sit flush with your surface (usually a ceiling). These versatile lights work in practically any room. LED recessed lighting is the most common form of architectural lighting found today, and one of the fastest ways to update an existing space with minimal effort. As suppliers of LED recessed lighting, we’re seeing it used increasingly more in both new construction and LED retrofit recessed lighting applications.

Lighting Applications

A Shopper’s Guide to LED High Bay Lighting

Lighting a space like a warehouse or manufacturing facility is a tall order. These cavernous applications require a layout that must take into account the number of luminaries, light distribution, color temperature, and other unique specifications. Whether your lighting involves a new construction project or a customized retrofit design, attention to detail is critical to ensuring proper lighting is achieved with an excellent return on investment. Making wise lighting decisions for a large workspace can enhance productivity while significantly reducing your energy costs. With proper lighting, employees are able to view their work more clearly, concentrate more effectively, eliminate errors, and even increase efficiency. At the same time, it’s important to not lose sight of operating costs. LED high bay lighting is a smart, economical choice that will save big over metal halide and fluorescent alternatives. At PROLIGHTING, we monitor the industry closely to bring you commercial lighting products that…

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An Introduction to Trulux™ LED Tape Light Systems

Thanks to its versatility and flexibility, LED tape lighting is widely used as a creative lighting solution in today’s residential and commercial applications. Often called strip lights or ribbon lights, LED tape lights are popular among designers and decorators because they install easily and are highly functional with different color options, lengths, and customization capabilities. LED tape lighting goes practically anywhere and illuminates nearly anything. We’ve seen tape light used a number of ways – to brighten kitchen counters, on railings, under toe-kicks and stairs, behind mirrors, and tucked inside spaces you wouldn’t think possible. Certain types of LED light strips can display hundreds of colors; adding fun accents to cabinets, TVs, shelving, or inside recessed cove spaces. Most LED tape lights can be trimmed to fit your needs, or extended for longer runs.

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LED Lighting Terms Everyone Should Know

As LEDs continue to reign supreme over incandescent and fluorescent options, it’s important to familiarize yourself with certain LED terms so that you can understand the advantages and select the best LED products for your project. While early LED lighting was primarily used in commercial settings, advancements in technology has caused it to shift substantially to residential applications as well. More and more consumers are making the switch over to LEDs – realizing that while it may require a larger initial investment, the long-term benefits outweigh the cost. LED, which stands for “Light Emitting Diode,” is a two-lead semiconductor light source that emits light when an electrical current is passed through it. During this engineering process, energy is released in the form of photons. But let’s not get too technical – what you really need to know is that LEDs are more efficient at turning energy into light compared…