How to install and connect spot lights correctly

Spotlights are sources of directional radiation. The design of the spotlights is simplified as much as possible, it is a case with a front surface, two locks and an electric cartridge with outgoing wires. Sometimes the design is complicated by the use of hinges designed to change the direction of lighting. For the operation of such luminaires, special incandescent lamps with a flattened bulb and a reflector inside, and halogen lamps, are enclosed in an additional glass housing.

Dimensions of lamps intended for the operation of halogen lamps are almost halved. The duration of halogen lamps, as a rule, is two to three times that of simple incandescent lamps. But because of the huge spread of cheap counterfeit, it can be much shorter. Now the world industry began to produce LED lamps, designed to replace both, and others. The plinth, the dimensions and the shape of the case of these lamps are similar to the obsolete incandescent lamps, only inside, in place of the tungsten filament there are powerful LEDs. For energy efficiency and lifetime, LED lamps are simply beyond competition, and it seems that the future belongs precisely to these light sources. And if you are for "classics", then see how to install the chandelier with your own hands. In order to understand how many bulbs are needed in the room and how much power you can use the online calculator.

How to install spotlights

Spotlights can easily be installed on metal, plasterboard, wood and polymer surfaces. In addition to the ceiling, they are mounted in bathrooms and kitchen sets, in various designer plasterboard interior elements. The main condition for a successful installation is the presence behind the panel of the surface of a sufficient amount of space. Halogen lamps will require at least sixty millimeters of depth, and incandescent lamps - up to one hundred and twenty millimeters. It is at this height that it is necessary to lower the tension, the rack or the plasterboard ceiling.

It is extremely simple to install spotlights, the installation scheme is also simple - the electrical wires are sent in advance to certain places, even before the ceiling is installed. After the ceiling is mounted, the holes of the desired diameter are cut or drilled in these pre-defined locations. Here the rational solution will be the use of a circular saw( crown), the photo below shows an example. Then the wires are attached, and the lamps themselves are inserted into the holes of the surface, with clamps tightened to the top. When the latches are in free space, they are released - everything, the lamp is installed.

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Next is the installation of light bulbs. If these are simple incandescent lamps with a screw cap, they are simply screwed. If these are halogen lamps, first you need to install plug-in connectors, after which the lamps are inserted into the fixtures and fixed using the locking rings that are included in the set of fixtures.

Work is best done in fabric gloves. Touching the halogen lamp with your bare hands leads to premature loss of their performance.

How to connect point lights

When lighting significant areas, point light sources, are much inferior to the ceiling lights of diffused light, and their energy efficiency is almost three times lower. When lighting narrow, long corridors, energy efficiency improves, but only marginally. A natural question arises: if spotlights are an integral part of the "eurorepair", then how about the well-known European trend of ubiquitous economy, and electricity, among other things? The whole point is that the original idea was to create separate control for each such lamp. People, engaged in some kind of affairs in the dark, must turn on the light only in the space they need, in a certain area. This, of course, leads to a more expensive installation, because much more cable is consumed and the installation itself becomes more complicated. Instead of simple switches at the entrance to the room, controllers are installed - touch control panels of electronic switching devices, which very often, in addition to alternative switching from the remote control, can be connected to a computer local network and the subsequent realization of the concept of "smart home".

The topic of saving energy due to its cheapness is not so relevant in Russia. And the theme of the cost of repair is very relevant because of the lack of extra money. And so the spotlights are connected by a loop - in parallel, and, accordingly, all at once turn on. When they are very much divided into two parts and through a double switch are turned on separately. See the topic of how to install the switch correctly in our article. With a parallel connection by a loop, the two wires are supplying, and the third is the grounding housing of the luminaire.

This connection scheme for point light fixtures takes place in the "new" apartments, where the ground wires in the lighting system are initially present. In old apartments, there is no ground in the lighting system, and only two power cables are connected.

Especially for the site to repair the apartment with your own hands.