Megaman Lamps

[Steve]

Just had 6 LED downlights fitted in my mums bathroom. Excellent light colour, and excellent brightness for 3 watts. Very impressed. Not very good spread though, but just put more in - only 3 watts each!!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

LEDs work best at emitting light in one direction, so any LED lamp that radiates in 360 degrees is either employing multiple LEDs or a reflector, the latter of which is introducing another loss in itself.

So maybe LEDs are not an appropriate technology for providing whole room illumination.

I'd say that downlights lend themselves pretty well to LED lamps. If I could light my room with 25w of LED downlighting then I would be quite happy, and I don't think this is at all unrealistic with quality lamps. If that wouldn't settle the downlight argument then I can't think of anything that would.

It will not, and never will, "settle the argument", because no matter how much everyone tries to distort, ignore and derail it the argument is not about how many watts are used to light a room.

It is only about, and will never be anything other than about whether a luminaire is designed for the job of providing general room illumination. If it is not then its use for such is offensive and wrong, and remains offensive and wrong no matter now many lumens/watt it produces.