Thread: Residential LED lighting

Originally Posted by MJC

Updates -
The LED lights arrived.
Timing and elevation are going to make this a Pro-Install rather than DIY.
Very pleased with the kit and I will keep you posted

MJC, Looks interesting. I take it from your comment that it looks like a quality built product. Can you tell from the packaging where Pixi is and where they are manufactured? Is that a 2x2? Also did you go with the Residential 2700K color temp or the Commercial 4000K? Also once you get them up I'd love to know how high you have them and what kind of light spread you're seeing. My project is still at the building walls stage but we have to make a decision about what lighting to use soon. Thanks for keeping this going and the update. Will be very helpful for our decision.

Originally Posted by Brenngun

MJC, Looks interesting. I take it from your comment that it looks like a quality built product. Can you tell from the packaging where Pixi is and where they are manufactured? Is that a 2x2? Also did you go with the Residential 2700K color temp or the Commercial 4000K? Also once you get them up I'd love to know how high you have them and what kind of light spread you're seeing. My project is still at the building walls stage but we have to make a decision about what lighting to use soon. Thanks for keeping this going and the update. Will be very helpful for our decision.

I've scanned the instructions and will set up a dropbox site with the pictures and a scanned copy of the instructions shortly. In the interium here is a link - within the page are downloadable PDF files with the rest of the data. (2700K Version)

2700K Warm vs. the 4000K - hoping that it is closer to warm-white than the yellow-weak that I am getting out of the current fixtures. But I also did not want the Operating Room/Jewelry store look.

They are 1 x 1 - the trim, fit and finish is excellent. If this works I'm going to add them to my home-office remodel plans.

Four will go in a living room with 11' - 8" / 3.35M ceilings - I'm thinking these will work well.

The other four go in a smaller Den with vaulted/angled ceilings that meet at a small rectangle. The light fixtures are in the angled vault. Don't like the solution we have now (incandescent 1 x 1 square flush mount can) but my fear is that the room is going to feel like a paint booth at a body shop...But the current system is so bad that I'm willing to try this.

MJC, Anything to report on the installation. I'm getting close to having to make a decision with my project and would sure like some feedback.

MJC -- I have to apologize, I asked my brother, the electrical contractor, and he had never seen or heard of them. He is waiting now to hear what you discover. Should have told you sooner!

So the good news, bad news.
These are fantastic, but they do not work as a retro-fit to and existing 1x1 flush mount can light.

If, when you take down the exiting fixture you have a flush mounted 4x4 gang box - you are good to go.
If you have a 1'x1' nominal opening in the sheet rock and a fixture mounted to the studs..you are going to have to put in an LED lamp and move on.
Or you can wreck out the fixture, frame the opening and set a 4x4 box and go from there.

I was away - but I have worked with this Electrician for years and the plan we had cooked up on the phone/email did not survive first contact with my slopping ceilings. There was no way to keep it square with the opening.

I have not sent them back, thinking about re-doing the lighting in my home office....

But if I was doing this in a new structure I would not hesitate.
I ordered them from Home Depot, they did not stock them at a store close by.
Very well made, commercial grade fixture - they were about $80 each.

Let me know if you have any other questions. Sorry this did not work in my location but it was not the fixture - it was the pre-existing conditions.