LED DREAMS:

This page on our site might have a funny name, but I intend it for good purpose. We have shown LED based products here in Oklahoma for nearly a year now and the response has been very encouraging to say the least. We have over a dozen projects either completed or in the works and we think in time this will prove to be a extraordinary line for us here at Smith Lighting.

What I would like to do with this corner of our site is publish specifier ideas that come to us on how they might implement LEDs on a project.

Any new product or technology has a gap initially between people being enthralled and impressed with it's potential and being able to practically visualize it's use in a space.

We want to show that there are practical and cost effective applications here and now that can be subtle and simple while still providing a "statement piece" in a project.

I'll add one of these every few weeks and I'd enourage anyone who has an idea to let me include it.
06.22.2002: Cove and Sconce Idea
Color Kinetics also manufactures a drop in replacement for any existing MR 16 Socket that can be controlled in sync with any other group of CK fixtures in a space using their patented "juice box" without modification to the fixture itself. One juicebox will power up to 40 I-Color MR fixtures.

What if we were to take those high tech sconces going down the corridor and place in them each an MR16 replacement color changer and synchronize them to match the effect of the cove. People walking through the space would be very impressed at the gradual washes of color on the walls and on the ceiling.

I could see this in spaces like an advertising agency, children's area of a hospital, TV or Radio station, high tech manufacturing company, or a beautiful conference room.

You have a corridor in a space that would be classified as very high tech/trendy. The corridor has a barrel vaulted ceiling with a cove going down each side that you are planning to light with fluorescents. You've placed 5 decorative sconces on each wall going down the corridor. The client would like to have something that would grab people's attention but not look busy or too colorful.

If you place a run of I-Color Cove LT down each cove, it will evenly throw a nice colored halo up onto the white surface of the barrel vault. The gradually morphing colors could be as slow moving as the client desires. It could even be a static color based on different times of the day. Now, here's where it gets GOOD.....