How to install and connect the spotlights right

Spotlights are sources of directional radiation.The design spotlights the most simplified, is a body with a front surface, two clamps and an electric chuck with outgoing wires.Sometimes design is complicated by the use of hinges, designed to change the lighting direction.For the operation of these lamps created special incandescent lamp with a flattened bulb and reflector inside, and halogen lamps, they are enclosed in an additional housing made of glass.

Dimensions luminaires intended for operation of halogen lamps is almost twice reduced.Validity halogen lamas, usually two to three times longer than ordinary light bulbs action.But because of the huge proliferation of cheap counterfeit goods, it can be much shorter.Now the world's industry started to produce LED lamp designed to replace those, and others.Cap, the size and shape of the body of these lamps similar to incandescent bulbs obsolete, but inside, on the site of a tungsten filament arranged high-power LEDs.On energy efficiency and validity LED bulbs simply out of competition, and it seems that the future belongs to these light sources.And if you are for the "classic", then see how to install a chandelier with his hands.In order to understand how much you need the lamps in the room and a power use online calculator.

How to install spotlights

Spotlights easily mounted on metal, drywall, wood and plastic surfaces.In addition to the ceiling, they are mounted in the bathrooms and kitchen sets in various design elements of the interior plaster.The main condition for a successful installation - the presence of the panel surface of a sufficient amount of space.Halogen lamps require a minimum of sixty millimeters in depth, and the bulb - up to one hundred and twenty millimeters.It is at such a height, lower the tension, rack or plasterboard ceiling.

Set spotlights an extremely simple installation scheme is also simple - the electrical wires are forwarding advance to certain places, before the ceiling installation.After the ceiling is mounted in it, in most of these pre-defined areas are cut or drilled holes of the desired diameter.Here rational solution is to use a circular saw (the crown), the photo below shows an example.Next, the wires are attached and themselves lamps are inserted into the surface of the hole with compressed information and the top clamps.When the clips are in free space, they unclenched - all, the luminaire is installed.

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is followed by the installation of electric light bulbs.If this simple incandescent bulbs with a screw cap, they are just screwed.If it is a halogen bulb, you must first install the plug-in connectors, and then lamps are inserted in the luminaires and fixed by means of retaining rings included in the luminaire package.

work better done in fabric gloves.Touching bare hands against the glass of halogen bulbs, resulting in premature loss of their working capacity.

How to connect spotlights

When covering large areas, point light sources, greatly inferior ceiling lights scattered light, their energy efficiency is almost three times lower.When illuminated by narrow, long corridors, energy efficiency improved, but only slightly.The question arises: if the spotlights - is an integral part of the "European-quality repair", then how can that be if a well-known tendency of the European economy, ubiquitous, and electricity including?The fact is that the original idea was to create a separate control of each such lamp.People engaged in the dark some cases, need to turn on the lights only need them, a certain area of ​​the room.This, of course, increases the cost of installation, because the costs are much greater number of cable itself and complicated installation.Instead of a simple switch at the entrance to the room, set the controller - touch control panel electronic switching devices, which are very often except for alternate switching from the remote control can be connected to a computer network and the subsequent implementation of the concept of "smart home".

theme of energy savings due to its cheapness is not so acute in Russia.And the cost of repair is very relevant topic due to lack of spare cash.And so the spotlights connected loop - in parallel, and, accordingly, are included together anyway.When a lot of them are divided into two parts and through the double switch are included separately.See on how to install the switch right in our article.With parallel connection of two loop wires are feeding, and the third - ground luminaire.

This circuit connecting spotlights takes place in the "new" apartments, where the ground wires in the lighting system is initially present.In older homes in the ground lighting system is missing, and join only two supply wires.

Especially for site repairs apartments with their own hands.