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Philips Hue – GU10 spots

Efter indkøb af min Hue Sana lampe og min store tilfredshed med den, så har jeg været i gang med at finde ud af, hvilke muligheder Hue systemer giver. Jeg har nemlig et fremtidigt problem med min udendørsbelysning, som i dag består af to sensorer og 23 GU10 halogen spots. De 2 sensorer kan ikke fungere med LED pærer, hvilket jeg har prøvet. Det kostede mig 23 spots og en sensor, der gik i stykker. Og da GU10 ikke længere produceres i halogen, så er jeg tvunget til at finde et alternativ, når jeg ikke har flere halogen pærer.

Derfor har jeg nærstuderet Hue GU10 og udendørssensorer og de muligheder, det giver. Jeg har nemlig forskellige krav til løsningen. Jeg vil gerne have, at lysene tændes i dæmpet tilstand, når det er mørkt, og så skal jeg selvfølgelig have sensorerne til at skrue op for lyset, når der er bevægelse. Det ville også være rart, hvis jeg kunne slukke lyset helt i nattetimerne, samtidig med at der blev skruet op på fuld blus, når der var bevægelse. Og uanset om lyset er tændt pga af mørke eller ej, så skal der tændes for lyset, når lysmængden falder under et vist niveau – også selvom det sker midt på dagen.

Jeg vil også gerne forbedre dækningen af bevægelsessensorerne. I dag er det nemlig sådan, at hvis jeg går den ene vej rundt om huset, så tænder lyset ikke på hele den ene side af huset, før jeg runder endnu et hjørne. Og hvis jeg går den anden vej rundt og er for lang tid om det, så slukker lyset, inden jeg kommer hen til næste sensor.

Heldigvis er bevægelsessensorerne billige – de koster en fjerdedel af, hvad mine nuværende koster, så der er råd til flere. Jeg har købt et sæt farvede og et sæt hvide GU10 pærer samt en bevægelsessensor, som jeg afprøver på mit ene badeværelse. Jeg er derfor i gang med at planlægge, hvor mange sensorer, jeg har behov for/gerne vil have, og så venter jeg tålmodigt på, at de kommer på tilbud 🙂

Hue spots and sensor

LEDs

First, a little background information... 5 halogen light bulbs are usually what lights up one of our bathrooms, but 1½ weeks ago, one of the halogens broke. That started a discussion of whether or not to replace them with something more energy-efficient. For starters, we borrowed a suitcase filled with different kinds of energy-saving bulbs. We highly recommend doing this, since every manufacturer has many types of light bulbs, and the light from them is very different (even from bulbs from the same manufacturer). We liked one of the energy-saving bulbs, but the problem with that kind of bulbs is, that the time it takes for them to turn on is too long. It is very annoying, when you turn on the light, enter the room, and bumps into something before the bulbs turn on. So we started looking at the alternative - LEDs.

We began with buying two cheap LEDs. They were crap - the light was miserable, and we learned that warm white light was yellow! So they ended up along with the garbage. Instead, we bought 1 LED at another store, and it cost three times as much - but then it was also dimmable. That one was comparable to the halogens. Now that we finally had found a LED that we could use, we were tempted to try other types of LEDs (not dimmable). We ended up with two - one watertight and one with a wider beam angle. The watertight LED had a bluish light and a wider beam angle than the halogens, which made them perfect for the position above the mirror. The LED with the wide beam angle had a more yellowish light. We decided to combine the two LED types. Partly because we wanted the combined light in the bathroom to be somewhere in the middle of the two, partly because the watertight LEDs turn on a bit delayed compared to halogens (but not nearly as much as energy-saving bulbs), whereas the LEDs with wide beam angle turn on instantly and turn off a bit delayed. This way we can cut down on the electricity from 220 W to 22 W in our bathroom.

The dimmable LED we bought was not wasted. We use it in the outdoor lighting, which is controlled by a dimmer. A good piece of advice - do not buy the cheap LEDs, you will only be very disappointed. 

LED lighting