If you are thinking about LED lighting, don't try and replace incandescent bulbs. That works and is what people do but if you are building from scratch yu design the LEDS into the architecture. The most obvious example is to place them under the wall cabinets in a kitchen. Just glue a strip of them on. "Everyone" does this with new kitchens. The idea can be extended to living rooms and bedroom and other places. Use some kind of trim molding to shield the LEDs from direct view but let the light bounce off the ceiling. Convetional designs use one of a few fixtures but with LEDS you want hundreds often distributed over a wide space but hidden by a baffle.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Erik Christiansen <[email protected] > wrote: > On 16.04.18 09:53, Chris Albertson wrote: > > > > > > I'm also looking at a camping fridge with phase-change material inside > > > the insulation. That only needs power for a couple of hours in the > > > morning, and again in the afternoon, so does not load the batteries if > > > there's sun. > > > > > > > Not a "camping" fridge but a marine refrigerator. These are installed in > > sailboats and are really common. First you buy vacuum panels, There are > > made of stainless steel and you assemble the panels into a container > shape. > > Many thanks Chris. "DC marine refrigerator" provides interesting hits. > I'm partial to the ready-made ones, as it'll be much more fun building > LED lighting than reimplementing refrigeration. (Not much call for > glossy woodwork in a fridge, either. I have some centuries old Redgum or > Redbox¹, from small logs that were in a fire at least a century ago. > They are charred on the outside, but the heat darkened the inner wood to > a deep burgundy. Even in the round, it hasn't cracked. Some of it's sawn > up, but some small (8") rounds not yet. They'll make good lamp parts. > Some bits of Manuka burl are sketched in for wingtips on one design. > (With 1/3 of a microwave oven platter as diffuser, if I can cut 'em into > 120° sectors.) Just need time, and either clear out the workshop here, > or build the one there.) > > Erik > > ¹ Eucalyptus > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
