log home lighting ideas

[baltazar]

One of the options that I have thought through is a string. Two strings (a bare copper wire) stretched diagonally though the room. This is about 12 V. Between them in a glass or a plastic (like butterflies, for example) three LEDs with a resistor.
IMHO, this can be done very nicely. Ponder. With a spot source of light the design possibilities are very large. Only you need to find "your own" decision.
There is a good option when the canisters hidden in the curtains of windows. Then the light will flow from the windows sloped. Lamps will be invisible. And what does it mean "classic"?
Incandescent lamps are disappearing and will be banned soon.
There are energy-saving or "economical" lamps, which fear the number of inclusions, give a decent energy for heating the starting equipment in the lamp socket, less robust and discharge.
There are also halogen lamps that don’t have much difference from incandescent bulbs. Did I miss something?
If you are talking about a kerosene lamp, then it is really unrivaled. My friend bought it for fishing, so, now it does not want to leave it. And the color is so nice (classic) and the autonomy, but still it is warm. Even the mobile phone can be charged. I would not advise. They have a different purpose to create a directed beam of light. The room needs a scattered light.
That's the problem for 12 V for domestic premises there is almost nothing. A clean car, disco lights and RGB are not good, IMHO. For the living conditions bulbs 220 V released. But I was very unhappy with them. Therefore, I began to make DIY as an amateur.

[buldozer]

I think RGB is not very suitable for a residential use. This is a disco, a special interior lighting, but not a daily lightning. Unnecessary energy wastage and money, IMHO. But your purposes, I do not know so I can be wrong. It will be interesting to read about results. That's what I do not understand. And why do you change the color? I immediately say that a temperature of glow:
2360 K – an incandescent, vacuum bulb;
5500 K - direct sun light;
6200 K - close to daylight;
6500 K – a standard fluorescent white light source close to midday sunlight;
7500 K – a daylight, with a great deal of scattered part from a clear blue sky;
2700 K is the most comfortable, but it takes a bit more energy. Consider that 2700 K is not a sunny light as the people think of! A sunny color is what is called "white or cold."

[Summer]

Hello! I want to make a back-lit ceiling, but I do not know how to do it best, with fluorescent lamps, a LED strip or a rope light. I just badly imagine how does shine a LED strip, is it enough? I know that it can have 60 or 120 diodes per meter.

[constructor]

Any LED strip composed of some specific LEDs. Each of them has its own power characteristics, the amount of light in candelas, the angle of light, the light scatter plot with a distance, a glow temperature. Even the experts only on the technical data are unlikely say is this good or not? How could he know what you want? But almost any tape comes with the possibility of cutting. As a rule all the tapes are 12 volts and cut over three LEDs. Buy a sample, it will be inexpensive. Temporarily attach it to the ceiling, 12V supply, even from a battery or a suitable power source. I You'll know you arrange such coverage or not. If you buy the right suit running meter tape. Or look for another type of tape.
In the kitchen at seven squares meters I made a light of six fluorescent lamps 21W. Lamps enclosed in a niche formed by the two-level 6cm height ceiling, the ceiling line curves, so the distance from the edge to the uneven lamps 2.10 cm. It is used as a key light, because at their background 3 crows chandelier using only to create an intimate atmosphere. Its cons :
Lamps are long and do not bend to a ceiling form;
- To do perfectly smooth ceiling, or as I glue a textured wallpaper (because at this angle of illumination shows every speck of dust on the ceiling. Among the pros:
- A very good and even illumination without shadows in the kitchen with a reflected light;
- Switch on instantly;
- Heat up slightly.

[bill]

As for the price it is quite expensive.
I bought a sample bulb in a spotlight for 30 LEDs 12V, then I connected by an electron a transformer and it was over. Then I disassembled its guts, a diode bridge has burned. How to replace it? and to be continued.. The lamp 2 W compared with standing before a halogen bulb 30 watts on the perception shines even brighter. At the expense of blinking I haven’t understood it yet as I installed it in the hall where I could hardly pay attention.
A lamp costs 250 rubles. Interim results of the experiments.
Purchased: a LED strip 5 m
The label on the package NGX-B5050RGB-L60 – 2000 rubles.
So, we get a price for 1 m 400 rubles less than 7 rubles per diode. Segments of 5 cm - 3 LEDs soldered to the tape: 2 for 161 for a green and blue channel and 361 for the red channel. A tape width 12 mm (a previous piece of tape contained 2 to 151 and 271. A width 10 mm. Compared of the glow this segment gives a cold light). The seller claims that this is a new band with wider tracks, which do not burn. Further, the form was modified of contact pads on the edges of segments.
On the market there are modifications to the ribbon soldered resistors (at least on the bench saw three hundred and first). I think those who are going to collect anything on such tapes should pay attention to it. 1 segment of tape attached to a source of 12V consumes 60 mA.