What Is The Difference Between LED Downlight And LED Spotlight?
Jul 15, 2021
What is the difference between LED downlight and LED spotlight?
The LED downlight has a wide range of illumination, the basic lighting of the living room is the choice, but if it is matched with the spotlight, the effect is even more. Spotlight manufacturers answer
What are the differences between downlights and spotlights
1. Ceiling openings
The opening sizes of home downlights are generally 2 inches, 2.5 inches, and 3 inches. The larger the opening size, the higher the overall height of the downlight and the greater the depth of your ceiling. Generally speaking, downlights The height after all stretches is between 10 cm and 13 cm, so the ceiling depth of the downlight installation should generally be more than 13 cm. If the ceiling is too shallow, you can consider installing ceiling spotlights or horizontal downlights. The ceiling spotlight installation ceiling requires only 6 to 8 cm.
2. Light efficiency requirements
The inner part of the LED downlight uses energy-saving lamps. The colors are available in white and yellow light. The diffuse light source is non-condensing and low in temperature. It is an auxiliary type lamp, so it is mainly used for lighting. The angle of the light source can not be adjusted. It is generally used In the aisle, around the bedroom and around the living room.
The spotlights used in home decoration are divided into built-in spotlights and exposed spotlights. They are generally used in living rooms, bedrooms, TV background walls, wine cabinets, shoe cabinets, and so on.
3. Light source
From the perspective of the light source, the downlight can be equipped with incandescent bulbs or energy-saving lamps. It is yellow when the incandescent lamp is installed. When installing energy-saving lamps, depending on the type of bulb, it can be white or yellow.
Because the number of downlights in the home is generally relatively large, considering the energy saving problem, energy-saving lamps are generally installed inside the downlights. Now there are mini energy-saving lamps dedicated to downlights on the market. Energy-saving lamps are divided into 2U tubes and spiral tubes. There are four types of wattage: 3 watts, 5 watts, 7 watts, and 9 watts. In addition, the downlight is fixed, its light source direction cannot be adjusted, and the spotlight's light source direction can be changed. \
4. Danger
Generally speaking, downlights are safer than spotlights. Generally, spotlights cannot be used to illuminate wool fabrics at close distances, nor can there be flammable obstacles at close distances, otherwise it will easily cause fires. Downlights will not have much of this aspect. Considerations.
5. Look at the same grade from the price, spotlights are more expensive.






