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ABSOLUTE SERIES™ 99 CRI LED Flexible Strip for Dental Practice Installation
We are establishing a dental practice. I am very interested to have Absolute series LED in our practice, I would like to have your recommendations on ceiling design ideas in terms of the covers we can use while maintaining the high CRI.
Our ABSOLUTE SERIES 99 CRI LED strip lights sound like a great fit for a dental office where high CRI and full spectrum coverage would be essential.
The recommended housing and fixture solution for this product would be our aluminum channel. I've included the product link below. Our measurements indicate that while there is a minor shift in color temperature, the CRI values are essentially unchanged.
We are establishing a dental practice, and we are planning to relay on these LEDs to lighten the inside for of the operating rooms. Is there a recommended number of meters of LED to have to cover a square meter?
While your specific brightness needs will depend on the installation location, room layout and even personal preference, we would recommend a starting point of 50 footcandles. This works out to approximately 5000 lumens for every 10 square meters.
At 1250 lumens per meter, you would then need approximately 4 meters installed for every 10 square meters of space.
The 4 meters/ 10 square meters would allow to depend on these LEDs as the only source of my lightening?
The estimate of 4 meters per 10 square meters of space was based on a 50 footcandle requirement. This is a generally sufficient amount of lighting for a brightly lit office space, but for dental work we would imagine additional lighting near the patient would be desired.
Of the projects we work on, the brightest lighting requirements are up to 100 footcandles for applications such as art and photography studios. In this case, you will want to more than double your lighting budget to 8 meters per 10 square meters of space.
Does it matter if install 2 LED stripes in a 5 cm width profile? Or is it preferred to have single stripes in narrower profiles?
Installing two rows of LED strip lights in.a 5 cm width should not be a problem. The only concern would be if there are any aesthetics concerns, as larger gaps between LED strip rows can result in dark spots that are visible on the diffuser.
We are installing the absolute series LEDs. We are facing problems with the available profiles with same dimensions as yours, as we are seeing the dots. Therefore, we will instal deeper profiles (by 5mm- total 12 mm in depth). Do you think this would affect the quality and strength of the light?
We have not tested any deeper aluminum channels, but we would not expect any significant changes in color quality. Light intensity may diminish slightly, due to the increased distance between the LED strip and the diffuser layer, so we may recommend testing prior to any permanent installations.
The profile your company sells doesn’t have the dots issue, is that guaranteed?
The ABSOLUTE SERIES LED strip lights have a lower LED density, so the dots are likely to be visible if one looks directly at the diffuser cover.
We would recommend either using a higher density LED strip light, or a deeper aluminum channel as you suggested in our prior email exchange.
The dots will be reduced significantly, but not completely hidden with the ABSOLUTE SERIES LED strip lights.
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