Dimmable LED’s – DON’T FORGET THE DIMMER!!
When you go to a job to replace a bunch of incandescent bulbs for LED bulbs, don’t forget to check what kind of dimmer is present, if there is one at all. I’ve made this mistake in the past.
Category: Lighting
Color Temperature – WHAT ARE KELVINS? 2700K, 3000K, 5000K
The Kelvin Scale is used to talk about color of objects at certain temperatures, whereas other temperature scales deal with actual heat or thermal temperature. Kelvin is used in lighting especially for that reason, to talk about the color of light emission. KELVIN https://www.learner.org The Kelvin is a unit of measure in lighting, but...
Lumens Or Watts? – THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHTS
A lot of people still use wattage to talk about the brightness of lamps, when in reality lumens are the measure of light output. Wattage is still useful to know as an electrician, but we need to stop using it to talk about the BRIGHTNESS of a light. Wattage Wattage is used as a...
HID LAMPS AND BALLASTS – Metal Halide, High-Pressure Sodium, & Mercury Vapor
A lot of apprentices (and journeymen) have trouble understanding what makes HID lighting any different than regular lighting so troubleshooting them can be a bit confusing. Let’s talk about it! HID lamps are easy to understand once you wrap your head around the idea that the light inside of one is produced from an...