LED Down lights location/layout help

[Taylortwocities]

Your problem is that many folk on here hate downlights, for too many reasons to go in to here.

From an electrician's point of view, they are a pain in the wotsit to specify and install. In teh good old days there was one light fitting in a room, and that was plenty. Now people want 12. Thats 12 times the pain, as you will find, when you get started.

Even when you've made a plan as to how many and the locations, you'll find that the house has other ideas. There is lots of wood up in ceilings, and pipes, and insulation; so you'll need to modify your plan and engineer clearances, and may enclosures for the fittings.

Lighting design is a BIG subject, and you need to know what you want in terms of light on the surface before you even start. Light degrades with distance, so lighting requirements to a table will be different to what is required to illuminate a walk area./

There are many online tools that may help. Here's one that will ask you some questions that you'll need to answer!
http://www.gelighting.com/LightingW...sistant-toolkit/lighting-layout-estimator.jsp

Or just Google something like "downlight planning tool"

 

[Sam Gangee]

Anyone able to help on where to place these

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The positioning of the lights will be dictated by any joists or obstruction in the ceiling void above.
My rule of thumb is no closer than 600mm from perimeter walls and spacing between each lamp, no less than 300mm, no greater than 1200mm.

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