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I tell ya- after having worked in semiconductor fab cleanrooms where all the flourescent lights have amber UV filters on them, turning the light an orangish yellow, so as to not activate the photolithography polymers during handling- it just eats at your soul! It's hard to really describe it, but having all the blue, green and UV filtered out of the light is terribly depressing and demotivating.

[This message has been edited by SteveFehr (edited 01-06-2007).]

Lighting is a field of it's own, a bit more then just hanging a fixture is involved to produce the correct effect, and deliver the level needed, there are a number of lighting courses offered by manufactures and lighting engineers, I recommend anyone planning on doing lighting projects, look into these offerings.

When your selling lighting, your selling more then an installation, for example, a commercial customer may want lighting to bring out a color or detail, or hide a color, or detail, lighting placement can be a critical factor in commercial locations, if you don't have the skills to provide these services, you may be loosing out on a large part of the lighting market.

One of the courses I attended, they had two tables of food, with overhead lighting, one table the food looked great, the other table the food looked like something ready for the dumpster, as it turned out, the dumpster food was really the good food, and the other table was the spoiled food, amazing what the proper lighting for a project can do.

The other side of that is the lighting in the produce section of the grocery store. They use some lamps that make bruised, spotted produce look perfect.

If you are getting scalloping or weird artifacts on the wall due to the reflector design of MR16's, I suggest you use a "soft focus" filter. It will smooth the beam quite nicely. These are included accessories on my favorite downlights (IRIS), and I have had great luck with them. If you don't have the room for a filter in your fixure, check out Ushio's line of lamps called the Superline, or the softline series. (http://www.ushio.com/categ_gl_halogen_ref.htm)

Good luck!

I will be bringing the manufactor rep back on site to see what changes can be made to get the effect the HO wants.
Has anyone here gone to classes for lighting? I think it is something I will look into.

Here is the Juno training center information:
http://www.junolighting.com/junolight/edu_home.asp

It is not far away in Des Plaines. I herd it was more then worth the time to go. I never tried to set up something and have not seen any class dates listed for a long time. If you find out more details let me know.

Tom thanks for the info. Want to sign up with me?

Hey guys, I'm in the area too. Did either of you look into a field trip? I'd like to check it out too. Let me know if you've heard anything (or already gone). I might give them a call tomorrow. It doesn't look like they have anything scheduled coming up.