Over the past six months, we’ve been working hard in the background to redevelop the Caribou website and to make it even more powerful, user friendly and jam packed full of the key resources you, as specifiers, need for documenting your lighting designs. Caribou has alwasy sort to encompass quality, value and design in all the products and collections we provide. The new website will be testament to this and we’re confident you’ll enjoy the experience when using the site.
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This is a question we often receive from clients. How high should we mount our wall lights? Often architectural plans won’t make mention of the height of wall lights, rather just a symbol on the plan of their location.
If the plans do have the height mentioned, often the designer will include the height followed by AFFL. So what does AFFL actually mean? AFFL means “Above Finished Floor Level”, which is the uppermost surface of a floor once construction has been completed but before any finishes have been applied. So, in concrete construction it may be the uppermost surface of a screeded finish, or in timber construction, AFFL will denote the top level of the floorboards.
For general wall lights inside or outside the home, we suggest these be mounted 1.8M (1800mm) AFFL.
There’s another type of wall mounted light to consider and that is an indirect wall light, which illuminates the ceiling and provides reflected light into a space. These wall lights are often used when ceilings are higher than normal (in excess of 3M high). These wall lights will be mounted higher than general wall lights; typically around 2M – 2.4M AFFL. The WEDGE and the BLOK are ideal solutions for this type of application.
We should also consider the mounting position of low level lights. These are an important element of an interior for both steps and pathway lighting inside and outside the home. For low level lighting, we suggest a height of 200mm – 300mm AFFL. Here are some low level wall light options to consider for your project; SIERA, NICHE, STRIPE.
For external low level lighting, take a look at TOMMY, KIRRA, SERGIE, and SMILE.
Explore some of Caribou’s other popular wall lights; Harvard, Nova, Boxster, and Swifty.
An office corridor is not only a traffic zone, it is the space where people relax, collaborate, work in teams or even meet with clients. Lighting is used to emphasise different zones in a circulation or corridor area, but must not create an uncomfortable environment for those working inside adjacent rooms. Corner-mounted linear systems provide glare-free, wall washing light to the walls and ceiling. Indirect light makes corridors seem bigger and more inviting.
By casting more light onto walls, ceilings and people’s faces, the conditions for visual communication are improved. Wall illuminances in circulation areas should be a minimum of 50 lux and the ceiling should have at least 30 lux. In sitting groups and communication zones, higher illumination levels should be considered, as well as cylindrical illuminance and the light’s modelling effect.
Recessed downlights are often used in corridors, but more effecively direct/indirect lighting will offer appropriate light in conversation zones.
What is Casambi?
Casambi are a world leading technology company who have been developing modern wireless lighting control systems based on Bluetooth Mesh Low Energy technology since 2011.
Casambi offers a reliable, cost effective and future-proof wireless lighting control solution for projects ranging from basic individual fixture controls to industrial scale solutions with cloud-based remote control, monitoring and data logging.
Casambi technology can also be integrated into fixtures, LED-drivers and LED-modules, creating an optimal solution in terms of ease of installation and functionality with minimal additional hardware and deployment costs.
IESviewer is an application that you can use to visualize photometric data files which are saved in IES and LDT file formats. The photometric data files contain measurements of light beams as they are perceived by the human eye and are widely used by lighting professionals.
The application is user-friendly, presenting a simple main window that will allow for quick access to IES and LDT files from your computer. Once you have opened a new file, the tool will automatically display a graphic representation of the light beam.
Throughout the Caribou website you will find a lot of our products with associated IES files that can be directly downloaded and used within lighting software like AGI32 and Dialux for light planning of projects.
AGI32 is a subscription based light planning tool, but is considered the industry benchmark amongst electrical and lighting engineers.
Dialux is a free software and excellent for those people wishing to explore lighting design. Don’t underestimate the power of Dialux. Once you get to know some of the tools, it is a very powerful design tool, which is still used by lighting professionals.
Download IESviewer here : iesviewer.software.informer.com/download/
A Dim-to-Warm LED works like a halogen lamp when dimmed. Its specialty is that when you dim it the color temperature gets warmer creating a soft ambient experience ideally suited for residential and hotel projects. Dim-to-Warm LED imitates the effect of the halogen lamp which gets warmer by dimming. With full power you can get the colour temperature range of 3000K through to 1800K.
Caribou stocks Dim to Warm LED modules to suit our Down Light collection as well as our Razor linear LED systems.
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Caribou Lighting are very proud to have supplied the lighting for the new vertical State Secondary College in Fortitude Valley. The inner-city flagship state secondary school is the only one of its kind to open in the past 50 years.
This is another quality project by Hutchinson Builders. Caribou Lighting has a long history of providing quality lighting solutions for many of Hutchinson’s projects, including Capri Hotel, the famous Calile Hotel and Australia’s single largest residential tower, Skytower.
In 2020, as the company celebrates its 70th anniversary, Studio Italia Design changes to Lodes, to consolidate our commitment to distinctive decorative design.
