Recently, my family and I moved into a new home. We had lived in our previous home for more than seven years (loving every minute in our old house). But we were starting to get just a little cramped as our family had grown from just the two of us to now the four of us. While packing and moving is no fun at all, I was looking forward to the new house because I had some big plans for our lighting. I mean, hey, I do work for a lighting company.
Over the next couple of blog posts, I am going to share the lighting projects that I have tackled in our new home (including pics). Some projects I did and others I had professional electricians perform. My first new home project was adding under cabinet lighting. I had under cabinet lighting installed in our previous home and there was just no way I was not going to have my under cabinet lighting. I literally cannot live without them. We have a favorite saying in our household when we talk about something we want or like. We say, “It’s a quality of life issue.” Well, under cabinet lighting is a “quality of life issue for me.”
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It is that time of the month again – announcing our newest monthly Pegasus Associates Lighting Forum $50 gift certificate winner. I really do like writing these blog posts. This month our winner is forum member Chloe & Co.
Chloe & Co. joined our forum last month shortly after installing new under cabinet lighting in her kitchen. She posted a before and after photo of her kitchen cabinets in the forum. If you want to read more about her under cabinet lighting project, which includes helpful tips on how she chose her under cabinet fixtures and some more pictures, check out her blog post Better After Feature on her Chloe & Company blog. Her new lighting looks great! You should definitely check out her blog post.
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A great, very effective way to improve the task lighting in your kitchen, perhaps the most important room in your home, is under cabinet lighting. Just take a look at this recent article from RocketNews:
The primary purpose of kitchen under cabinet lighting is to provide task lighting for countertops, sinks, and stovetops that complements the general lighting in the room. The underside of cabinets provides an absolutely ideal location for task lighting since the light source is close to the tasks being performed but is concealed to avoid direct glare to your eyes. This is one of those perfect lighting situations where you see the light but not the light source. Under cabinet lighting also reduces the shadows created by the wall cabinets and the overhead ceiling lighting. The illumination on the backsplash also can create a bright attractive surface that introduces a bit of accent lighting that enhances the appearance of the entire kitchen. If the under cabinet light is dimmable or has a low light level choice, it can sometimes be used as a very effective night light. In short, good under cabinet light has the potential for adding another “layer of light” to your kitchen lighting scheme that greatly improves the task lighting, enhances the accent lighting, and adds valuable night lighting.
RocketNews, The Underlying Value of Under Cabinet Lighting
Check out the rest of the article as it discusses the pros and cons of different under cabinet light sources, including halogen, xenon, fluorescent, and the hot light source of the day, LED.
I have not been posting much to the blog lately. I am sorry about that and look forward to writing some new posts very soon. However, in the meantime, I would like to announce our September Pegasus Associates Lighting Forum winner of a free $50 Pegasus Lighting gift certificate. This month, our winner is forum member bigguy. Congratulations bigguy!
To help build our new online lighting community, Pegasus Associates Lighting is giving away:
- Free lighting gifts to the first 100 members who join the forum.
- Free lighting gifts to the first 50 members who post in our forum 10 times.
- A $50 gift certificate to one lucky forum member each month for the rest of 2009.
The Pegasus Associates Lighting Forum is an online lighting community with a primary focus on helping to answer our website visitor’s lighting questions. Answers may come from one of our technical customer service representatives monitoring our lighting forum or another forum member. In addition, our forum is also a place to allow people to share their lighting projects (including images), post lighting articles, and to provide feedback on our products or website.
LED Mini Step Light with Louver
For example, we just had a post from a new forum member who posted for recommendations on the use of our LED mini step lights with louvers and LED in-wall night lights in a home theater room she is building. Check out her post about Step Lights and Home Theater lighting and help out if you can by posting your own thoughts.
Below are our 2009 monthly forum winners to date:
| May: |
cmgeupel |
| June: |
Joe B. |
| July: |
Premium |
| August: |
pbcomm |
| September: |
bigguy |
Recently we received a brand new LED lighting product from one of our suppliers to review with the potential for us to sell it on our website. While we were examining it and discussing its strengths and weaknesses, we came up with the idea to have our customers examine and install the product and then give us their unfiltered feedback. We talked with the supplier and they graciously agreed to provide us with several products to give away free to four of our customers. The only requirement, but very important requirement, is that each customer must provide us with complete written feedback about this new product and photos showing the installation of this product.
So, if you are interested in helping us with this review process, you first need to express your interest by adding a comment at the bottom of this post. The rules are as follows:
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Each month, for the rest of 2009, one lucky member of the Pegasus Associates Lighting Forum wins a free $50 Pegasus Associates Lighting gift certificate. This month, our winner is forum member pbcomm. Congratulations pbcomm!
To help build our online lighting community, Pegasus Associates Lighting is giving away:
- Free lighting gifts to the first 100 members who join the forum.
- Free lighting gifts to the first 50 members who post in our forum 10 times.
- A $50 gift certificate to one lucky forum member each month for the rest of 2009.
The Pegasus Associates Lighting Forum is an online lighting community with a primary focus on helping to answer our website visitor’s lighting questions. Answers may come from one of our technical customer service representatives monitoring our lighting forum or another forum member. In addition, our forum is also a place to allow people to share their lighting projects (including images), post lighting articles, and to provide feedback on our products or website.
Below are our 2009 monthly forum winners to date:
| May: |
cmgeupel |
| June: |
Joe B. |
| July: |
Premium |
| August: |
pbcomm |
This post is for all of you “weekend warriors” out there that are working hard to finish up those summer projects. Yesterday I received a phone call from one of our manufacturers with a request. They wanted to offer a special Labor Day promotion on their wireless LED battery-operated lights; a $3 instant manufacturer rebate. Nothing wrong with that; so I said, “Absolutely!”
Starting today, and continuing through this coming Labor Day, Monday, September 7, six of some of our most popular LED battery-operated light fixtures have been reduced in price by $3. Since this is an instant manufacturer rebate, there is nothing that you, the customer, have to do to receive this rebate. The special Labor Day price, including your instant rebate, will automatically be applied when the product is placed in our online shopping cart.
So, go ahead, and take some of the “labor” out of your summer projects with LED lighting that:
- Includes a bright white LED
- Mounts anywhere
- Lights up automatically when motion is detected
- Turns on only in darkness
- Automatically shuts off after 30 seconds
- Can be used indoors or outdoors
- Provides easy safety and security lighting
- And, may even be remote-controlled.
The Labor Day instant manufacturer rebate applies to the following products:
All of us at Pegasus Associates Lighting hope you had a great summer and that you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.
Within the past month we expanded our website by adding a new energy-efficient lighting section. This new section of our website makes it easier for our website visitors to find the energy-efficient LED light fixtures, fluorescent fixtures, metal halide light bulbs, air tight recessed housings, California Title 24 compliant lighting products, and ENERGY STAR® light fixtures that we offer.
LED lighting is really exciting. For example, the 6-inch LED downlight module uses 85% less energy than a conventional incandescent downlight, and 50% less energy than comparable fluorescent downlights. This, obviously, amounts to considerable savings on an electric bill. We look forward to offering our residential and business customers an ever growing line of energy-efficient lighting in the near future.
Dr. Thomas E. Farin, President and founder of Pegasus Associates Lighting.
We formally announced this new website section on August 27. You may read our press release “Energy Efficient Lighting Makes an Impact on Pegasus Associates Lighting Website” for further information.
It is that time of year again; back-to-school time. From now until mid-September, students are heading to college dorm rooms all across the country. In addition to dorm room rugs, televisions, video games, and computers, lighting is an essential addition to any dorm room’s décor. “Institutional dorm lighting is not exactly the most cheerful. Putting a few better light sources in your room can make the space much more pleasant,” says Naomi Rockler-Gladen of Suite101.com.
As we all know, school, work, social, and study schedules rarely match up between roommates. One potential area for disagreement is over the room’s lights. Either they are kept on most of the night or are turned on suddenly while one roommate is sleeping. However, wireless, energy-efficient LED lighting is a quick and inexpensive solution to help avoid these potential dorm room disasters.
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A couple of months ago we posted an article to the Pegasus Associates Lighting website that listed the 10 things to know about LED lighting. Number nine on our list of 10 things to know was OLED.
9. OLED An OLED is an organic light emitting diode. It is an LED that also contains carbon. OLEDs are generally manufactured as flexible lightweight sheets. Today, OLEDs operate at significantly lower efficiency than inorganic (crystalline) LEDs. OLEDs typically generate less light per area than inorganic, solid state LEDs, which are usually designed for use as point-light sources.
www.PegasusAssociates.com, LED Lighting: 10 Things to Know
Today I learned that scientists from the independent Stanford Research Institute (SRI) found an innovative design to increase light output and energy efficiency of OLEDs. The answer is cavities. The device that they produced is called, watch out for another acronym, COLED. Yes, the C stands for cavity.
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