Re: Supply for LV lighting application?

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From: Ken Taylor
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:34

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"Watson Ammonium Chloride Name" <alondra101@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Kzria.304$Na.28555554@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
> wesk@prodigy.net mentioned...
> > NOT TRUE!!!  First of all, if your house burns down, and if the
insurance
> > company finds that YOU built and installed the fixture, yea, they'll
> > probably pay you.  But best of luck finding insurance on your future
home.
> >
> > Secondly, fixtures that are built from UL components does NOT make them
UL
> > LIsted....  HUGE difference.  Fixtures that are UL approved are
TESTED... to
> > make sure they meet code, and more importantly, to make sure they do not
> > exceed the temperature parameters for the fixture type.
> >
> > Anybody can put a socket in a V8 Juice can and call it recessed
lighting,
> > but voila the DIFFERENCE between 'that' and the 'real thing'...
> >
> > Wes
>
> I often work up in the ceiling pulling cat5 cable, and I really enjoy
> those recessed lighting fixtures.  They leak so much light up into the
> plenum that it makes seeing really easy.  Seems to me that they would
> let less light go upwards and make more of it go down.  But that's just
> the way it is.  Just another reason why we like to pull cables down
> hallways.  :-)
>
They also allow heat to escape, which is pretty sad when it's a cold climate
and heating is expensive!

Ken

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