Cove Lighting Construction
Linear light strips are excellent cove lights for new construction projects. The majority of public buildings, new homes, and commercial offices feature some type of cove or variance at or near the ceiling level of the room. Installing cove lighting in these areas can add both aesthetic and a practical, functional element to the building provided you use a flexible cove lighting source that can be adapted to virtually any environment. It also adds value to new construction prices to install a cove lighting source that can be controlled by the user, and that can be custom-fitted to seamlessly mount to any environment. Phantom linear cove lighting strips fulfill all three of these requirements in the form of a low-profile, flexible, custom manufactured lighting strip that will fit in building coves as small as 3” from the ceiling and wall.
In new construction homes and offices with extraordinarily narrow coves or valances, linear strips offer a distinct advantage over fluorescent light fixtures or even cove rope lights. Fluorescent ballasts and fixtures are clearly visible in such places and present a visual distraction from the ambience of the light itself. The same quality of light can be achieved with our concealed light source which can be designed to fit any radius and literally disappear along the top surface of a cove, valance, or soffit. This is because Phantom utilizes remote magnetic transformers that are concealed from normal viewing angles. These low voltage transformers are fully dimmable, allowing the end user to dim the low voltage festoon lamps at will for accent lighting. This also offers the facilities manager or homeowner the added value of minimized maintenance through prolonged bulb and fixture life, and it proves the most effective method of apparently sourceless lighting in hard to reach areas where other fixtures cannot be installed as unobtrusively.
Further value is added with your choice in lamp types. Cove lights by Phantom can be fitted with incandescent, xenon, or LED festoon lamps. If you are involved in any level with new construction LEED certification, you really want to take a close look at our proprietary LED festoon lamping technology. We have engineered a lamp that combines multiple bulb combinations into a single festoon unit that can be fitted to any cove lighting strip. These festoon lamps are so powerful they rival the lumens output of incandescent lamps and nearly approximate those of xenon. This gives the lighting designer creating a system for a new construction project the full range of cove lighting accent options by comparing festoon lamps ranging from cool and warm color accents to state-of-the-art green technology that mimics traditional technology with minimal forward throw heat and 80% less the total power costs.
No cove is built the same, and the professionals at Phantom can assist with design development as well as engineering retrofit applications. Our festoons can act as replacements to lamps in existing linear strips provided certain compatibility requirements are met. Power leads can also be ordered to accommodate unique wiring runs, and to balance loads to secondary transformer fusing. The greatest benefit you will receive from our unique approach to cove lighting strips is a very precise and custom approach to applied technology housed within a fixture that is pure aesthetic on the surface, pure engineering underneath.
United States Phantom Lighting Agents will help you determine which cove lighting options will best meet the needs of your current construction project and act as liaisons between you and the factory to place your order and arrange for drop shipping to your site. Contact us now for a free consultation, visit our lighting blog or call toll free 1-800-863-1184 to learn more about our indirect cove lighting products..
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