Thread: Residential LED lighting

Currently in the middle of a major renovation to the lower half of my home. Gutted 4 rooms down to the studs all along the perimeter, removed all internal non load bearing walls, flooring, plumbing etc. Everything possible gone. Remodel to begin soon will include a new library, washroom, laundry room and family room. Still trying to find the right overhead lighting. I've run across Pixi (link below). Considering this product and wanted to know if anyone has any experience with them or similar product. Anybody using their flat panel lighting?? Anybody have an alternative LED system I should consider? All comments or suggestions welcome.

FlatLight | Residential | Pixi Lighting

No experience, but that's really interesting. I'll ask my brother for you, he's an electrical contractor.

Photos, we want photos...demolition, construction and finished product. please keep us posted.

LED lighting is a large growth industry right now, and so it should be. The biggest issue I see is much of it is very expensive. The last few jobs i did before i quit renovating had LED lighting. There are a lot of color differences out there. I suggest that if it is at all possible to go look at them in action in a large lighting store.

Didn't do an extensive renovation but did replace the bulbs in my lighting fixtures with LED bulbs Philips | LED 7W A-Line Slim Style Daylight - Case of 4 Bulbs | Home Depot Canada . As RezDog says there are a lot of colour differences. I chose the daylight versions at 5000K because I did not like the yellow cast to ones simulating the old conventional bulbs. It is a colder light with more blue in it. It is really best to see which you like if you can. There should also be some energy program rebates available for retro fitting homes with LED lighting.

Bob

I've wondered about LED lighting myself.
I see LED's with 100's thousands of hours advertised lifetimes and they work beautifully in automotive applications. My thinking is to run the lights on a separate circuit of 12V DC rather than paying through the nose for a light that has its own transformer. A 12V DC set up would also lend itself nicely to a low cost solar application.

Haven''t gotten serious enough about to any actual research yet.

I've been thinking about them for ceiling lights in the kitchen. Haven't investigated it yet but I hate the fluorescents that this place was built with.

Originally Posted by Haroldg48

No experience, but that's really interesting. I'll ask my brother for you, he's an electrical contractor.

Please do and let me know what he thinks.

Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

Photos, we want photos...demolition, construction and finished product. please keep us posted.

Will post some once we have a good comparison of before during and after.

Originally Posted by RezDog

LED lighting is a large growth industry right now, and so it should be. The biggest issue I see is much of it is very expensive. The last few jobs i did before i quit renovating had LED lighting. There are a lot of color differences out there. I suggest that if it is at all possible to go look at them in action in a large lighting store.

Planning to do that next week.

Originally Posted by BobH

Didn't do an extensive renovation but did replace the bulbs in my lighting fixtures with LED bulbs Philips | LED 7W A-Line Slim Style Daylight - Case of 4 Bulbs | Home Depot Canada . As RezDog says there are a lot of colour differences. I chose the daylight versions at 5000K because I did not like the yellow cast to ones simulating the old conventional bulbs. It is a colder light with more blue in it. It is really best to see which you like if you can. There should also be some energy program rebates available for retro fitting homes with LED lighting.

Bob

I did the same about 3 months ago. The new flat shaped Philips bulb did it for me. Fits all normal fictures. I also picked the daylight version.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've been thinking about them for ceiling lights in the kitchen. Haven't investigated it yet but I hate the fluorescents that this place was built with.

I agree I hate the fluorescents.

You ever consider natural light? Like maybe a few sun tunnels. They've been very popular in the past few years. I've installed a lot of them and they let in a lot of light and look much like a big pot light on the inside. Of course at night you would still need some sort of lights.



Ahhhhhh! Stupid phone!!!!

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

You ever consider natural light? Like maybe a few sun tunnels. They've been very popular in the past few years. I've installed a lot of them and they let in a lot of light and look much like a big pot light on the inside. Of course at night you would still need some sort of lights.



Ahhhhhh! Stupid phone!!!!

Unfortunately I need the light on the second level down from the roof.