—OBALS gives you an insight into LED lighting
High-quality indoor lighting is important when it comes to preventing tired eyes and enhancing your mood. Indoor lighting is often used to foil the atmosphere in home decoration, and downlight & track light are the two most common light fixtures. However, most people can’t tell the difference between downlight and track light clearly. Once installed wrong, not only regret, but also waste energy and money. So cut the crap, let OBALS gives you an insight into downlight and track light now.
Downlight
Downlight, also called recessedlight, is usually installed in a circle around the ceiling of the living room.The most prominent characteristic is that it can maintain the unity of interiordecoration, without occupying redundant space to add soft and romantic feelingto the whole design.
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Track Light
Track light, usually a bar shape, isoften used for key lighting to illuminate objects that need to be highlighted,like the commodity, decorative picture, handicraft, etc. Generally, the volumeof track light is smaller than the downlight.
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Downlight vs. Track Light
- The Light Souce
Usually, downlight is installed energy-saving lamp or incandescent lamp. When installing energy-saving lamp is white light, and installing incandescent lamp is the yellow light, but downlight’s illuminant direction is fixed. Track light uses quartz bulb or LED bead as the light source, and relative to downlight, the direction of the track light can be adjusted at will.
- Application
Downlight is used at domestic auxiliary illumination or general illumination commonly, and the light is downy and comfortable. When decorating downlight, you need to consider the interval and uniformity. Track light is generally used to emphasize a specific object, which can make the object more texture, used in commercial stores or exhibition areas.
- Light Effect
All the light of downlight is to project downward, belong to direct deserve light, and the light can increase warm feeling, but its lighting effect cannot change. However, track light is different, which is typical non-dominant lights. In short, it is modern lighting of indefinite scale. If you combine a row of track lights, they can make the light becomes different and pleasing design. As it can transform angel freely, track light has the various radial effect.
- Price
Regarding the price, the difference between downlight and track light is also apparent. Below the same circumstance, the cost of the same grade and quality track light may be higher than downlight.
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Downlight
- Advantages
- Compact and High Luminous Flux
Energy saving downlight uses 1/5 as much power as incandescent bulbs and last six times longer, creating brighter space.
- Two kinds of Reflector Plates with Mirror or Frosted Glass
One is the mirror reflector that brings scintillation feeling, another is the frosted glass reflector that will mediate ceiling with moderate brightness.
- Adopt the Sliding Fixed Card, Convenient for Construction
Thedownlight can be installed in 3mm to 25mm different thickness of the ceilingand can be very convenient to remove the lamp when maintaining.
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- Various Color Temperature
Energy saving lamp has the diversecolor temperature, commonly the three types, 6400K (white light), 4000K(neutral light), 2700K (yellow light). These three types can create a differentatmosphere, suitable for special customization.
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- Suitable for Low cost
It’s easy to install and does not occupy excessive space with generous and durable characteristic, usually used more than five years. At the same time, the style is not easy to out of fashion with low price.
- Shortcoming
The main problem of downlight is in the lamp mouth, some inferior downlight is not resistant to high temperature, easy to deformation, so resulting in the bulb can’t no be screw down. In addition, the disadvantage of downlight is that if one or two light points are damaged, you have to buy the new one instead of fixing it.
Track light
- Advantages
- Save Electricity
Track light’s reflective cover has a powerful refraction function, and the power about 10 watts can project strong light.
- Condensed Light
The light is centered, which can highlight or emphasize some object or space vividly.
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- Easeful
Track light’s color is close to natural light and reflects light on the wall without dazzling.
- Diversity
You can use small bulbs to create different projection effects.
- Shortcoming
Although the wattage is small, the bulb can accumulate a lot of heat, which can produce high temperature inside the short time without professional installation.
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