Kitchen lighting

[Blatman]

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Just don't like the CFL fittings, a personal thing I guess, but just like the crispness of light from halogen and LED.

Assuming they're available, wouldn't full spectrum bulbs be better?

[Chasmon]

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Another option is LED, although quite abit more expense to install, they use a small fraction of the engery once fitted.

Don't bother with LED replacements for low voltage or mains voltage halogens. They have not quite cracked it yet with the light output and they are really only a direct comparrison to the normal (not IRC) 35w halogens.

Robus lighting have just brought out a 10w LED downlight, they really are the future and absolute comparrison to the 50w low voltage downlight. These would be a fifth running cost of the halogens.

Abit larger than the normal downlights, but ive fitted a few now and are brilliant.

Some details on the LED downlights here.

Hope you find this useful.

Darrell

£90 each   I guess they do last for 10 years though so can see you would get money back but I'm guessing they'll come down in the next few years to go mainstream.

Some really useful info here guys - thanks, I think on the face of it halogens and IRC bulbs will be the way to go and then retrofit in the future if technology moves on to something better.

Any advice on quantity/spacing?