Do-It-Yourself Lighting Projects

Installing Recessed Lights
A step-by-step instructional tutorial about installing recessed lights, the site features installing eyeball-type lighting and downlights. Ideas for spacing lights and finding lighting joists is included with descriptive diagrams. How to disconnect and remove current lighting fixtures is explained, as is cutting drywall for lighting installation. Lighting wiring and specifics of installation are featured. All step-by-step lighting tips are accompanied by interactive video. A lighting materials and tools list is included to ensure all supplies are available.

Lighting Questions and Answers
Site explains Cable lighting, full-spectrum lamps, MonoRail systems, electronic ballasts, UV filters, and low-voltage lighting. Includes helpful question and answer section with questions about kitchen lighting, halogen lamps, types of track lighting and chandelier suggestions. Residential lighting information is included.

Improving The Energy Efficiency of Lighting Systems
The lighting group at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has been working to design and create home lighting systems which will use up to 50% less energy than present systems while still providing the same home lighting that we have come to expect. This site discusses developing exotic light sources, such as Light Emiting Diodes and even Organic Light Emitting Diodes as well as new power supplies (known in the business as ballast) to power them. There is also an in-depth discussion of light distribution systems and new light sources, as well as new and revolutionary controls for automatically determinging lighting needs and intensities for maximum conservation of energy. There are even extensive discussions regarding the human element in lighting. Many of the articles are highly technical in nature, covering such diverse areas as bathroom lighting, kitchen lighting, and outdoor lighting.

Scene Lighting
With scene lighting, a single press of any X10 transmitter can prompt multiple scene-capable SwitchLincs, LampLincs, ToggleLincs or KeypadLincs w/Load Control to respond with an individual action. Typically these actions are to either turn the connected light on to the brightness level that you pre-determine (except fluorescent lights, which can't be dimmed), or to turn the light off entirely. In addition to controlling brightness level, each dimmer can respond with an individual ramp rate - the fade rate at which you want the light to turn on or off. Includes scene lighting options for emergency lighting, night lighting, dinner lighting, movie lighting and reading lighting.