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Installing Track Lighting

Track lighting is installed in the garage portion of the barn. Bob reviews the hardware, bulbs and mounting techniques used. New acrylic filters are used to reduce weight and allow better uplighting.
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Installing Track Lighting

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" Let's talk about tracks up on track lights in here well since it's a garage space essentially. You have. Vehicles and such in the center and I understand there's going to be workbench along the side so the track lighting gets the most flexibility in terms of pointing a light where you need it whether it's at a grinder or tool bench. Or even if you're working under the hood OK and what kind of heads are we using these days I mean early track lights -- remember you just put regular floods and what's what kind of had do you have what are these days. This is a small compact halogen part thirty. Which -- terrific output as well as very good energy efficiency for an incandescent lamp OK no idea have to replace this these are not terribly expensive correct. No they're probably in five to ten dollar range here now like this I mean they're low tech from the from that are certainly. Now installing track lighting in a cathedral ceiling like ours where we've got. Well we've got are insulated wall system and we got post and he wasn't an easy job so I know that. What Riley had to do is basically rip down a whole bunch of wood and -- so that you give us a flat surface like we see on the bottom here. Right and then you suspect. This this track it's meant to spend up to eight feet between support since that your rafters -- you don't -- that's why we went to this heavy duty aluminum textures and perfect. So we'll have what a -- 66 cents and each of these tracks. Somewhere between four and six depending on what you're doing day. Now these -- and that when you were designing this space I was talking about big old industrial. Lighting fixtures and these really. Fill the bill they're beautiful. Not a glass well they may look exactly like glass that was the old style -- days were using up. You'd be stabilized acrylic check out the weight on this nothing. And yet it's very very sturdy. Injection molded it gives you 20% up light very clean and it reflects as well as reflects the light. Well -- all these saw tooth textures that you see Aaron as the light comes through the acrylic it bounces it around so that it's. Strange and free thing and get any weird. Patterns on the walls listen and they. Inside surface since it's perfectly smooth yes acts as a reflector. OK and pushes the light down into the useful part of the space and then let's talk about all the pieces here is you've got them. Coming down three or four feet on -- tight. Right and what goes up on the -- basically. There's a balanced. Since this fixture is an HID sorts metal halide you need it requires a balanced in order to operate. And the way that works is it gives the light -- a constant. -- line -- plot so that's what the baluster and regulates the power supply to this odd bulb right tell me about the while this lamp. Technical word for light bulb is a lamp to lamp and there's an arc to been there which contains. Metallic components and how line. Gases so unlike an incandescent lamp where you have a burning filament this one the art tube will Manassas and then you get the line. Why is that. Good for this kind of lighting because. It's much more efficient at putting out the lumens. Which is the light energy right so you get more lumens per watt kind of like better miles per gallon in your heart and of course this takes a few minutes to come up to speed right when you turn it done right takes about five minutes to warm up. So the bottom of the light fixture gets enclosed with this strike this refresh her -- on so it and that's not glaring from underneath Brett and also keeps out dust and certain stuff -- great idea it's a good example of how lightolier's come up with a lot of these interest in light fixtures that. Our improvements on things that were around 3040 years ago and then as well as brand new products and of course these are all Sylvania like -- threat."

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