General comments
- Why is lighting important
- How soon should you install lighting
- How much light do you need
Types of illumination
- Incandescent
- Halogen
- Fluorescent
- Exotic (neon / slide projectors / black light)
Lighting concepts
- Color of illumination source
- Lighting for photography
- Eliminating multiple shadows
- Highlighting points of interest
- Point sources vs diffuse sources / spots vs floods
- Dawn/Day/Dusk/Night cycles
- Dimmers & louvers
- Color transitions
- Automation of cycle
Safety considerations
- Fire hazard
- Ventilation
- Electrical practices
- Sufficient circuit capacity
- Permanent vs “Temporary”
- Sufficient wire size
Installation
- New installation vs existing ceiling
- Kinds of lighting fixturing
- Valences
- Distances and geometry
- Lowering lighting from ceiling – storage above
- Multi-deck lighting
Other considerations
- Ultraviolet filtering
- Interaction with photo-detector block occupancy circuits
About this content:
Original author: Dick Lord. Last revised in 1996.
This LDSIG article is ©1996 by Dick Lord