{"id":4131,"date":"2017-04-13T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2017-04-13T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:34:37","slug":"office-desk-light-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"Office Desk Light Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always been the plan to install an L-shaped light over the desks in the north-west corner of the office on the second floor, hence the other lights are elsewhere in the room – four down lights along the south side and a couple of\u00a0wall lights on the east wall – which leaves the north-west corner rather dark.<\/p>\n

For various reasons it’s taken a long time to select the lamp and get it installed. Given the sloping roof a suspended system always seemed a good option but finding a suitable fitting took a while. In the end I settled on the Beta system from Apollo Lighting in Leeds<\/a>. A few different configurations\u00a0are available but to suit the space available I used four illuminated units coupled with a non-lit blanking section and a corner piece. Once nice feature is that each of the lit sections has its own DALI-controlled dimmer which can be controlled independently or as a group, so the unit just needs mains (live, neutral and earth) and the two-wire DALI bus, all supplied via a single 5-core flex, which makes for a very neat installation.<\/p>\n

The electricians had taken care to prepare for the wiring\u00a0(before selecting the fitting) by leaving space to pull in a cable, terminating in the store room on the north side where there are some other DALI dimmers. It was a little tricky to locate the exact position for the cable run but some careful measuring paid dividends and hit the right spot with the first hole.<\/p>\n

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Apollo Lighting Beta system suspended LED light unit<\/p><\/div>\n

It can be difficult to judge the scale from the photo but it’s a big room and those desk tops are each 1.6m x 0.8m and the light is\u00a02.8m x 3.3m (shorter on the left; longer on the right). I chose to locate it 2m above the floor, which seemed about right. The instructions were very specific about a 100-hour “burning in” period for the LEDs (for best performance when dimmed below 10%) so in the photo they’re on\u00a0at full brightness and it’s possible\u00a0to see the illumination on the walls plus some less pronounced uplighting on the ceiling that will work a lot better when the rest of the walls are painted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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