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Modern Light Fixture For Your Home

Try not to underestimate the power of exquisite lighting when building a new home, redecorating or simply revamping your lighting scheme at home, or if you are in charge of choosing new lighting features for your office. With the right lighting, you can change the dynamics of any space, so it is important to find something that sends out the right signals.

When you check out modern light fixtures at CrescentHarborModern.com and other lighting fixture companies, you will find amazing light fixture variety for your lighting project. Find quality, beauty and elegant design for a fair price. Between the dazzling array of modern, contemporary and classical pieces, there is a lighting fixture or two that will catch your eye.

If you want to light a room from on-high, choose one of the sparkling chandeliers, which come in small sets, medium, large and grand or custom sizes and styles. With modern styles of chandeliers, you realize you can update this classic to fit with your keen sense of modern edgy style. Look for linear pendants or something that features drop fringes to mesh a modern and classical style.

With so many bathroom lighting fixtures, kitchen-specific fixtures, ceiling fans, table lamps, pendants, wall sconces and floor laps, you will be ready to redecorate any room in your house with the flip of a switch. If outdoor lighting is part of your project, look for post-bound lights, outdoor wall sconces, outdoor hanging pendants and outdoor ceiling and flush mount fixtures for your property.

Advantage of using Halogen Lights

Halogen lights are one of the newest lighting trends. These special bulbs are perfect for thrifty households and their longer lifespan helps to preserve the environment. Incredibly efficient, these bulbs are the a great addition to any home, office or warehouse. Switching to halogen lighting is not only great for savings on new bulbs, but the lower wattage may lower utility bills over time without sacrificing brightness. The longer lifespan comes from a simple recycling process. Instead of using new materials inside the bulb, the bulb takes advantage of the small amounts of gas that are contained inside, evaporating the particles to chemically produce light. The bulbs use a thicker amount of glass, so they are safe to use even though they are typically hotter than incandescent bulbs. The bulbs are very efficient because the process creates a brighter light while using a lower watt. The lights can easily be dimmed or adjusted, making them softer on the eyes. The bulbs fit just about anywhere and can come in all shapes and sizes. Halogen replacement bulbs from GenesisLamp.com are a great place to start looking if you want to increase the efficiency of your lighting and lower your utility bills.

Why Choose Coiled Bulbs?

In every homes nowadays, they no longer use incandescent lamps or fluorescent lights, most houses are now using coiled bubs or CFL. They say that this kind of light is energy saver and consumes less electricity.

I want to learn more about this kind of light and the news about mercury and all. Some are claiming that the use of coiled bulbs can be harmful to the environment because of the mercury inside it. I have heard that this type of bulb should be disposed properly.

But why choose coiled bulbs in your home?

CFL has a longer span and it can give you savings since it use lesser electricity.

 

Living Room Lighting Idea

If you will notice, living room, aside from the kitchen and dinning room, is the most utilized room in the house. The family usually stays in the living room after a hefty meal or even before. It is the place where you receive visitors. Lighting a living room is done in many ways, depending on the desired effect of the house owner. Here are some typical lighting used in living rooms:

Natural light is used during the day. This is your best light option during the day and it can be easily controlled by the use of blinds and curtains. This can save you a lot in terms of electricity usage. Be practical and utilize the light that the day brings.

Table lamps is a good piece to ad character to the room. It does not only emit low light, which is very apt to the room, it also accentuates a part of the living room and adds drama to it.

If you don’t want to go for the traditional table lamps, you might want to try recessed lights. These are lights attached on the wall or the ceiling, in most homes, it appeared like scattered small lights. Although small, since they are many it also gives adequate light.

Another type of lighting that can be used and is gaining more popularity nowadays is the Task Lighting. This is a type of lighting where in it is only used when needed. A certain part of the house will only be illuminated when this is turned off. This is very practical specially for a family who have kids who needs to study. Instead of turning on the whole lighting fixtures in the living room to give off enough light, using task lighting will be better.

Street Lights

Have you ever wonder who pays the bill for your street light? I do, and good thing that Meralco.com.ph supply some information regarding street lights. Below are some text I got from the Meralco website.

Streetlights serve a role in society that is not limited to enabling people to see where they are going. On a broader perspective, the existence of streetlights emphasizes the value of safety, peace and order and a robust economy. Aside from these, the bright streets give a nice, warm feeling of contentment and happiness.

At present, MERALCO has around 285,000 streetlights all over its franchise area that it installed and is currently maintaining. This goes to show that Meralco is committed to installing and maintaining streetlights, whenever the need is manifested by streetlight applications.

There are however more things that we need to know about streelights, that is not only informative and interesting but also helpful for a general understanding of the intricacies of the streetlighting system.

How To Identify Meralco Street Lights

MERALCO streetlight facilities are identified thru:

  • Pole-mounted streetlights – MERALCO numbers that are written on metal pole tags wrap around concrete or wood poles
  • Ornamental streetlights – MERALCO numbers on yellow stickers installed on the streetlight steel poles. There is also a yellow sticker with the MERALCO logo on top of the pole numbers.

Of streetlights installed, majority are high intensity discharge (HID) lamps. The rating or wattage of the streetlights are 70 watts high pressure sodium (HPS), 125 watts high pressure mercury (HPM), 150 watts HPS, 250 watts HPS and 400 watts HPS. The bulk or more than 90% of the total number are 70 watts HPS and 125 watts HPM. The rating or wattage of the streetlight luminaire can be easily determined and seen from the road surface thru yellow stickers bearing the numerical wattage such as 7 or 07 for 70 watts, 15 for 150 watts, 25 for 250 watts and 40 for 400 watts.

Street Lights Billing:

There are two (2) types of billings that MERALCO charges for streetlight service as follows:

  1. Flat rate streetlights service – Applied to MERALCO-owned streetlight facilities. The amount is based on the rating of wattage of the lamp and electricity consumption that has been computed by MERALCO for a duration of 12-hour night time operation per month. MERALCO has five (5) ratings or wattages for the company-owned streetlights: 70 watts HPS or 125 watts HPM, 150 watts HPS, 250 watts HPS and 400 watts HPS.
  2. Metered rate streetlight service – Applied to customer-owned lighting facilities. The amount of billing is based on the electricity consumption that is registered and read thru the kilowatt-hour meters every month. Customers under the metered rate streetlight service are local government units, barangays, homeowners associations, commercial center associations, industrial estates, and real estate developers.

How The Street Lights Operate:

Streetlights operate during the night normally for 12 hours, from 6 pm to 6 am. They are either individually controlled or group controlled. The switching on and off is thru a device called the photocontrol. The photocontrol is device that senses the amount of light and automatically turns on and off the lamp inside the streetlight luminaire. The photocontrol is mounted on top of streetlight luminaires for the ones that are individually-controlled, and on top of lighting control panel box for the streetlight luminaires for those that are group controlled.

All streetlights owned by MERALCO are controlled by photocontrol for automatic dusk to dawn operation.

Lighting facilities owned by customer are also automatically controlled by photocontrol, however, some do not have photocontrol and are manually operated. Their personnel switch on and off the lights at certain hours.