Phantom Lighting System

What benefits does Phantom lighting offer to the lighting distributor or lighting designer?
Custom build to specific client need is the number one benefit we can offer to you to pass on to your customers. Our linear lighting strips are fabricated to the exact vertical, horizontal, and radial dimensions of the many cabinets, display cases, bookshelves, and ceiling coves you encounter daily in on site visits to both commercial and residential prospects.

We are a one-source low voltage lighting manufacturer for all forms of storage and display cabinet lighting. Regardless of whether you are subcontracting under a builder and starting from scratch, or retrofitting an existing cabinet with new light fixtures, Phantom has a modeled designed to meet the specific needs of your client base.

How easy is it to conceal these strip lighting fixtures from normal viewing angles?
Very easy—our motto is “See the Light, Not the Fixture.” The transformers we use are smaller than those used in other lighting strips because all Phantom LED strip lights are low voltage devices. Our cabinet lights install in a manner that is very unique to the industry. Because they are custom made to order, you can specify exactly how you want to wire the strips to best conceal the wiring inside the cabinet.

The most popular way of doing this when installing display cabinet lights is to exit the cabinet and splice the wires on the backside of the furniture. For kitchen cabinets built into the wall, there are a number of other concealed wiring strategies can be implemented through the complimentary consultation services provided through our network of lighting agents.

What specific linear strips models do you manufacture?
The vision of our engineering team is to proactively anticipate each and every lighting our distributors and agents will encounter in the field. We carry six variations of custom cabinet lighting fixtures, each of which is then analyzed by your lighting agent to be the best possible fit for your client.

Once that determination is made, the strips are then custom designed and manufactured to precise dimensions, voltage (12 or 24), and festoon lamp types to match the fixture exactly to the needs of your client.

This procedure will add tremendous value to your cabinet lighting installation service proposal, as you can literally analyze each and every cabinet in your client’s home or office and propose a custom lighting installation unique to that specific, individual cabinet.

What can I do for my clients on an extremely tight budget?
You can easily address and accommodate these concerns by recommending they go with LED replacement festoon lamps. Our patented lamp design emits approximately 50 lumens of light per lamp—five times the lumens output of competing LED manufacturers. We offer five colour temperatures now; making LED the near equivalent of xenon in superb lighting quality and the leading contender in energy efficiency, bulb life, and UV/Infrared free lighting.

We also recommend that you install a user-friendly dimmer switch that will allow your clients to turn their display cabinet lighting up or down like a volume control on a stereo. Any clients you have who host events on a regular basis can use these controls to both regulate power consumption and to set lighting levels appropriate to activity, occasion, and mood.

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We invite you to contact us at 800-863-1184 X 125 to request a color brochure of our accent lighting fixtures. In addition to low voltage strip lighting we also manufacture fine art lighting equipment.

What is the most difficult aspect of curio cabinet lighting?
When lighting curio cabinets with mirrored back panes the biggest problem is reflective glare.

This is an almost unavoidable disadvantage when lighting a display cabinet in front of a mirror of any type.

For lighting curio cabinets made from solid wood, the problem is shadows and uneven distribution of light.

This is why some of these showcase cabinets have two or more light fixtures to light the objects from multiple angles. The disadvantage here, though, is that too many lights creates “fixture clutter” that diminishes presentation.

What about these lights that come pre-installed in some curio cabinets?
Honestly, they are not a bad way of lighting a curio cabinet, provided that it is a standing wall cabinet of larger than average size, and provided that the shelves are made of glass. Light passes downward through the shelves and reflects off the mirror, wrapping itself around the collection in the process. However, there will still be reflective glare from certain viewing angles such as couches and chairs near the display.

In a wall curio cabinet made from dark, solid wood, glass shelves will allow overhead light to pass all the way to the cabinet floor without the nuisance of reflective glare. However each object casts a shadow that requires either multiple fixtures top-mounted fixture or some sort of alternative, secondary source of lighting for the curio cabinet.

This is where Phantom under cabinet lighting fixtures can prove invaluable tools to truly impeccable presentation.

OK, so how do Phantom linear strip lights overcome these obstacles?
If the cabinet is made of wood, there is a great deal of creative freedom and flexibility you can apply to either supplementing in cabinet lights or using Phantom LED strips as the primary source of curio lighting. Cabinets made of wood will accommodate up to three major Phantom Strip Series, all of which are designed to remain concealed from viewing angles.

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Furthermore, in spite of the nuisance of reflective glare, Phantom HM series make for some of the best curio cabinet lights you can use for wall-mounted display cases. Whereas mirror panels in larger cabinets may actually show reflections of the linear lighting strips themselves to seated guests, wall mounted cabinets feature more narrow surface depth that actually helps create the optical illusion that the lighting strips are actually built into the top of the cabinet.

What bulb types are the best choices for curio cabinets?
Phantom Lighting manufactures strip lights with incandescent, xenon, or led bulbs, each of which offers unique advantages to the specific type of curio cabinet they light and the nature of the collectibles on display. Wooden curio cabinets with no interior mirrors need the brightest illumination possible, so we generally recommend xenon low voltage bulbs that are renowned for producing the whitest light. You can set the dimmer switch to a higher setting when guest are active throughout the home, then turn the lights down to leave them at lower levels once most people have gone to bed. LED lamps will replace xenon lamps as colors improve.

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