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What's the difference between downlights and spotlights?
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2021-09-15
When it comes to downlights and spotlights, in the lighting design of modern home improvement, these are the leaders in creating a home atmosphere, especially spotlights, which are often seen in museums, exhibition halls and other places. For beginners, they are similar in appearance and can easily be confused together. What is the difference between the two?
When it comes to downlights and spotlights, in the lighting design of modern home improvement, these are the leaders in creating a home atmosphere, especially spotlights, which are often seen in museums, exhibition halls and other places. For beginners, they are similar in appearance and can easily be confused together. What is the difference between the two?
If you only look at it from the outside, it is really difficult to distinguish the difference between the two. First of all, you have to start with their respective characteristics.
downlight
In commercial lighting and home lighting, it mainly provides uniform, comfortable and soft functional basic lighting. When laying out lights, the spacing between lamps, the illuminance and uniformity of the ground, and the matching degree between the lamps and the ceiling should be considered. It is more suitable for local medium-intensity lighting and auxiliary lighting, such as dining tables and bar counters.
spotlight
It is often used for accent lighting to illuminate objects to be highlighted. For example, commodities, decorative paintings, handicrafts, etc., can produce clean and clear light spots, and focus on objects to enhance the effect. Generally, the volume of spotlights is smaller than that of downlights.
In addition, the two lamps can be distinguished by usage, beam, light source and characteristics.
General Lighting vs Accent Lighting
Downlight: Soft and comfortable light, generally used for general lighting or auxiliary lighting, can form floodlight in a certain space, evenly illuminate the entire space.
Spotlights: make mood lights, generally used for accent lighting or decorative lighting, mainly highlight the illuminated objects through small-angle strong light, such as TV walls, paintings, display cabinets, etc., which can better express the color and texture of objects, Enhance the beauty and enhance the contrast of light and dark in the space.
For lamps of the same power, the larger the beam angle, the smaller the central light intensity, and the softer the light spot. On the contrary, the smaller the beam angle, the greater the central light intensity, and the stiffer the light spot.
non-adjustable vs adjustable
The direction of the light source of the downlight is generally not adjustable and can only be fixed in one direction, which can evenly illuminate the entire space. The direction of the light source of the spotlight is generally variable, and the illumination angle can be adjusted freely according to the needs, focusing on lighting and highlighting the local area.
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