Wood Light Pendants for Track Lighting
5/22/14
I do some high end bowl turning and I've been asked to create a light fixture for a kitchen. 3 pendants attached to funky bent lam frame. The bent lam is easy, it's the pendants I'm unsure about. The specs for each pendant is 5" wide by 6" high. Wood and hot bulbs can't be good, so I was thinking of a small CFL or halogen bulb, something that is lower temp? Does this present a fire risk? Your thoughts please, thanks!!!
5/22/14 #2: Wood Light Pendants for Track Light ...
Look at using LED lamps and a low voltage circuit. Smaller, cool, super long life. Expensive, but they will last forever, and be dimable.
5/22/14 #3: Wood Light Pendants for Track Light ...
Not sure where you are, but it's likely that the only code compliant way that you could do this is with low voltage. LED's are cool, but not quite there yet as far as light quality is concerned. Before you go down that route, know the CRI (color rendering index) of the actual bulb that it's designed for. The worst would be to make a great fixture that the clients can't stand to turn on.