Kit Lighting
There is nothing more gratifying than a home improvement project that goes well, and nothing more frustrating than one that goes wrong. The key to successfully installing pendant lighting in your home is being prepared before taking on the project.
Go into the room where you have decided to install the pendant lighting. It’s time to look around and make sure this is an appropriate lighting option for the space. First take note of how much light you really need in the room. Will one pendant light do the trick? Or will you need a series of lights to offer the illumination you want.
Next, consider headroom. If you have very high ceilings, this is not a problem. But if you have lower ceilings, you should make sure that the area where you put pendant lighting is not a high-traffic area, or those lights could become a battering ram when you have a tall friend to your house. Take measurements so you know how long the lights can be to do the job, but not be a head-bumping hazard.
Now it’s time to make some style decisions. Look at the décor style you have chosen for this room. What type of pendant lights will fit in? Thanks to the advent of online catalogs, this part of the process is much easier. In many cases you can take your computer in to the room where the lights are to go and click through the pendant lighting options on the market. This allows you to picture the light with the room’s décor. You want pendant lighting that goes with the room, not stands out as something that doesn’t fit the rest of the space.
If you are having a tough time finding good pendant lighting to go with your space, you should contact a lighting store to find out of there are any custom options available to create a light that will better suit your needs.
Once you have selected your pendant lighting, it’s time to install. This is a pretty easy process and you can usually do this with a set of insulated wire cutters, insulated pliers, a screwdriver and a ladder. The first thing to always remember when putting up a new light is to make sure the power is shut off to the area you will be working on. It’s best to do this from the circuit breaker.
Next take your pendant lighting out of its box. Look at the wires coming out of the light. They should have at least ½ inch of wire sticking out from under the colored plastic insulation. If not, you should remove that amount, so the light wires can be attached to the house wires.
If you already have a light in the space where your pendant lighting is to go, it needs to be removed. As you take it apart, you will see there are wires from the light and from the house twisted together inside the ceiling. These need to be untwisted so you can remove the old light and put in the new.
Now you need to take your pendant lighting bracket and screw it in place in the ceiling. You now will attach the wires from the light to your house wires. Match the wires by color. There should have been wire screw tops on the house wires before you started, put these back on to the newly attached pieces of wire.
Push all the wiring up into the ceiling and attach the rest of the pendant lighting to the ceiling. Make sure you have put a light bulb in the light, and then turn the power to the room back on, and test it to make sure it works.
Pamela Tice is the owner of several home lighting stores, including SimplyPendantLighting.com. You can find expert advice and more information on pendant lighting and other decorative and functional hanging lamps by visiting her website.
I have a Bowens lighting kit and lately when I shoot a polaroid I get a black image even though it flashes.?
The flash goes off, but the image remains unexposed. What could be the problem? Could it be my sync cord? Or is it the flash itself? (this problem occurs when using different cameras and lenses)
Could be several things.
I’ve had this problem with another unit, and it was the flash element. It needed to be replace. They all go eventually. Check to see if it looks black. It will still fire, but not correctly.
Check to see if it works when you use a very slow shutter speed.
It could be the sync cord, these too fail terribly sometimes, but my money is on the flash element.
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