LED Lighting

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I have a brother in-law that is getting ready to build a home in North Carolina. He wants it to be Energy Star Certified and is planning to use surface mouinted LED fixtures. The product he found is made by Seagull, cat # 14101s-14. The fixture can be surface mounted to a ceiling box or made to retrofit an existing 5 or 6 inch recess. The fixture is almost 8 inches in diameter and is 1-1/2 inch in height. This particular model has a white body that might hep blend them in to the ceiling.

Anybody have any experience good or bad with the product? Can anybody suggest something better?

He is asdking for some help with the layout of fixtures but I know nothing about them. I suppose one of these in the center of each small room would be the way to go. That would include closets that would normally get a light fixture. In a large open area I guess I would suggest what I would normally suggest for recess lighting. The kitchen layout would be more of a challenge.

To me, lighting should be as invisable as possible unless it is part of the decor. I'm thinking having these fixtures is not going to be attractive especially in the kitchen/living room area (one relatiely large room) where numerous lights would be installed.
 
I have used it ONCE, it's about a 30* spread, so slightly less than a standard halogen flood beam. There is nearly ZERO spillover that you get with incandescent/cfl though. Putting it in the center of a small room will leave a bright little circle on the floor that doesn't illuminate the rest of the room. It's not for general lighting, this is a downlight specific product.

My application required something in a stairway landing with extremely low clearance, and not enough room to recess. I probably wouldn't consider using this product again, unless I had a similar situation.
 
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I have used it ONCE, it's about a 30* spread, so slightly less than a standard halogen flood beam. There is nearly ZERO spillover that you get with incandescent/cfl though. Putting it in the center of a small room will leave a bright little circle on the floor that doesn't illuminate the rest of the room. It's not for general lighting, this is a downlight specific product.

My application required something in a stairway landing with extremely low clearance, and not enough room to recess. I probably wouldn't consider using this product again, unless I had a similar situation.
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So based on that I take it you would use them in a kitchen because they are usually pretty close together? What about hallways, laundry rooms and closets where the room is already pretty narrow?
 
Laundry room no, not good enough general lighting. Hallway, probably not, would go with a decorative fixture or recessed that isn't an eyesore. Kitchen absolutely not, low cri, not enough spill over, limited...really limited spread, and visual eyesore. Small Closet, quite possibly if they were considerably cheaper in price.

I would look in to recessed lights made for LEDs, or led retrofit kits for them. Fluorescents where general lighting would be required. There are some decent decorative led and bi pin fluorescent fixtures as well, for other areas. Halogen recessed on dimmers for the kitchen, if that meets energy star, or higher quality/color rendering led.
 
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