PHOTO: The lights in my home office computer room previously consisted of a standard single bedroom fixture that I recently replaced with an energy efficient LED track light, shown above, which generates little heat while focusing six bright individual lights onto my standard office metal file cabinet, my antique oak roll-top desk, my old-fashioned drafting board, my office copy machine scanner network printer, my storage closet and my computer work table. Although I still often need to see, given my low vision blindness, a flashlight magnifier along with other vision aids these new 2700 degree Kelvin color temperature LED lights have made things easier for me (I can't see very well with the higher color temperature LED lights). I also installed identical track lights over both aisles along my kitchen counters, and so I am now fully committed to using this technology for at least 20 years -- I pray it will last for the rest of my life without any maintenance or reliability issues. The manufacturer rates their LED units as having a life of 35,000 hours, which given my average usage should last for more than 20 years. The reason I wanted to have identical LED lamps in both my kitchen and office is so that I can easily store a few spare fixtures I can swap in if one or two fail prematurely. (To see the other sides of my office, see previous post Still alive after 'upgrade' to Windows 7 HP Workstation and Dream Color Monitor (1/26/14))
See previous posts:
- LED Pixi flat panel light replaces under cabinet fluorescent light over kitchen counter desk area (9/25/15)
- LED Pixi flat panel light replaces my laundry room light (4/10/15)
- LED and CFL bulbs hard to see with blue-orange-yellow color blindness due to their higher color temperature (8/1/15) - includes photo of burned out bulb in a row of ten old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs)
See following links to the manufacturer's specification sheets:
- Acuity Brands, Inc. "About Us" acuitybrands.com accessed Oct. 21, 2015 - "Acuity Brands, Inc. is a North American market leader and one of the world's leading providers of lighting solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications."
- Track Lighting acuitybrands.com page accessed Oct. 21, 2015
- Lithonia Lighting Series: LTIKMSBK; LTIHMSBK" acuitybrands.com accessed Oct. 21, 2015
- Specification sheet LTIKMSBK-KIT-LED_pdf Integrated LED Track Kit (PDF)
- LTIHMSBK-HEAD-LED_pdf Integrated LED Track Head (PDF)
- Recommended Track Dimmer (PDF)
- Lighting Five year warranty (PDF)
- lightahome.com is listed on retail box for non-commercial home warranty redirects to acuitybrands.com -- WARRANTY REGISTRATION
