When you are looking to purchase lights for you home, you would need to consider the different types of lighting needs for each of your rooms. At Yeelight, we believe that your home should be customised to fit your preferences. In this guide, I will be bringing you through the basics of what to look our for, and the common terms you may come across when it comes to picking out your lights.
1. Wattage
Wattage is the amount of power needed to generate energy for your lights. Having a higher wattage would mean that your lights will have greater power to generate brighter lights.
Do take note that if you are looking to purchase brighter lights, referring to lumens rather than wattage would be helpful to your search.
2. Lumens
Lumens is a measure for brightness. A higher value of lumens would give rise to brighter lights, while a lower value will result in dimmer lights.
It is good to note that more energy efficient lights can have a lower wattage for the same lumens!
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3. Lux Level
You can think of "Lux level" as the amount of light that actually fills up a room. If you would like more illumination in your home, finding lights with a higher lux level would be ideal. To understand this better, a hospital would require lights of higher lux levels compared to your average home.
It is very important to consider the area of your space before purchasing your lights. Typically for an apartment, purchasing lights with a lux level of 150 lx to 200 lx can be a good choice, but ultimately depends on your personal preference.
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4. Colour Rendering Index
CRI is a measure of how accurate the light source is when it comes to reflecting colours into our eyes, this index is based on a scale of 0 -100, 100 being just like natural sunlight. You can think of it as comparing your lights to the sun!
Picture this: when a light with low CRI shines onto a red apple, the colour that you see would be dull rather than a vibrant and accurate red like how natural sunlight would. To prevent such dull representations of colours in your homes, you should ideally look for lights that has a minimum of 80 CRI, but >90 CRI would be ideal.
Here is an example for CRI:
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5. Unified Glare Rating
UGR measures how glaring a light source is. If you are wondering what a light with high UGR would look like, you can imagine looking at a car's headlights at night.
Here would be an example of a light with high UGR:
To make sure that your home has a comfortable lighting environment, you should try to get lights that have a UGR of 10 and below.
Here is an example of our comfortable downlights that has low UGR:
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Now that you are equipped with these tips, we hope you have a brilliant time hunting for your next il-lumen-ation!
At Yeelight, we are able to assist in providing insights and advice on the correct solution for you. If you would like to know more about what we do and want to enquire more about our services, feel free to make an appointment with us here!