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MINI PUCK LED LIGHT 12V 1W surfaced under cabinet lighting LED Spotlight Mini LED Cabinet Light

Model CAS07B

Mini Puck LED 12V DC

MOUNTING:surfaced only, great for under cabinet lighting, niche lighting,

RV & trailers, off-grid solar.

Installation Instructions Mini Pucks

Energy Used: 1W

Halogen Equivalent: 5W

Input: 12V DC

Dimmability: Dimmable with compatible 12V power supplies and sensors

Beam Angle: 100°

Light color options: Soft White 3000K cool white 6000K

CRI 90 + for True Colour Rendering

DIMENSIONS:Φ38*11mm

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How Close Are We To The Holy Grail Of Room-Temperature Superconductors?

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How Close Are We To The Holy Grail Of Room-Temperature Superconductors?

One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical resistance: the fact that you cannot send an electrical current through a wire without some of that energy getting lost, being dissipated into heat. Electrical currents are just electric charges that move over time, and are harnessed by humans to move through current-carrying wires. Yet even the best, most effective conductors — copper, silver, gold, and aluminum — all have some resistance to current passing through them. No matter how wide, shielded, or unoxidized these conductors are, they’re never 100% efficient at transporting electrical energy.

Unless, that is, you can make your current-carrying wire go from a normal conductor to a superconductor. Unlike normal conductors, where the resistance gradually lowers when you cool them down, a superconductor has its resistance plummet to zero below a certain critical threshold. Without any resistance, superconductors can transmit electrical energy in a lossless fashion, leading to the holy grail of energy efficiency. Recent developments have brought about the highest-temperature superconductor ever discovered, but we probably won’t be transforming our electronics infrastructure anytime soon. Here’s the science of what’s going on at the frontiers.

One of Faraday’s 1831 experiments demonstrating induction. The liquid battery (right) sends an … [+] electric current through the small coil (A). When it is moved in or out of the large coil (B), its magnetic field induces a momentary voltage in the coil, which is detected by the galvanometer. As the temperature decreases, the resistance of the circuit decreases as well.

J. Lambert

Superconductivity has a long and fascinating history. We realized back in the 19th century that all materials — even the best conductors — still exhibit some sort of electrical resistance. You can lower the resistance by increasing the cross-section of your wire, by lowering the temperature of your material, or by decreasing the length of your wire. However, no matter how thick you make your wire, how cold you cool your system, or how short you make your electric circuit, you can never achieve infinite conductivity with a standard conductor for a surprising reason: electrical currents create magnetic fields, and any change in your resistivity will change the current, which in turn will change the magnetic field inside your conductor.

Yet perfect conductivity requires that the magnetic field inside your conductor not change. Classically, if you do anything to decrease the resistance of your conducting wire, the current will increase, and the magnetic field will change, meaning you can’t achieve perfect conductivity. But there’s an inherently quantum effect — the Meissner effect — that can arise for certain materials: where all magnetic fields inside a conductor are expelled. This makes the magnetic field inside your conductor zero for any current that flows through it. If you expel your magnetic fields, your conductor can begin behaving as a superconductor, with zero electrical resistance.

Helium’s unique elemental properties, such as its liquid nature at extremely low temperatures and … [+] its superfluidic properties, make it well-suited to a series of scientific applications that no other element or compound can match. The superfluid helium shown here is dripping because there is no friction in the fluid to keep it from creeping up the sides of the container and spilling over, which it does spontaneously.

Alfred Leitner

Superconductivity was discovered way back in 1911, when liquid helium first came into widespread use as a refrigerant. Scientist Heike Onnes was using liquid helium to cool down the element mercury into its solid phase, and was then studying the properties of its electrical resistance. Just as expected, for all conductors, the resistance gradually dropped as the temperature dropped, but only up until a point. Abruptly, at a temperature of 4.2 K, the resistance completely disappeared. Moreover, there was no magnetic field present inside the solid mercury once you crossed below that temperature threshold. Later only, several other materials were shown to exhibit this superconductivity phenomenon, all becoming superconductors at their own unique temperatures:

lead at 7 K,

niobium at 10 K,

niobium nitride at 16 K,

and many other compounds subsequently. Theoretical advances accompanied them, helping physicists understand the quantum mechanisms that cause materials to become superconducting. After a series of experiments in the 1980s, however, something fascinating began to occur: materials composed of vastly different types of molecules not only exhibited superconductivity, but some did so at significantly higher temperatures than the earliest known superconductors.

This figure shows the development and discovery of superconductors and their critical temperatures … [+] over time. The different colors represent different types of materials: BCS (dark green circle), Heavy-fermions-based (light green star), Cuprate (blue diamond), Buckminsterfullerene-based (purple inverted triangle), Carbon-allotrope (red triangle), and Iron-pnictogen-based (orange square). The novel states of matter achieved at high pressures have led to the current records.

Pia Jensen Ray. Figure 2.4 in Master’s thesis, “Structural investigation of La2–xSrxCuO4+y – Following staging as a function of temperature”. Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2015. DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.2075680.v2

It started with a simple class of materials: copper oxides. In the mid-1980s, experiments with copper oxides with the elements lanthanum and barium broke the longstanding temperature record by several degrees, being found to superconduct at temperatures greater than 30 K. That record was quickly broken by using strontium instead of barium, and then was broken once again — by a significant margin — by a new material: Yttrium-Barium-Copper-Oxide.

This wasn’t just a standard advance, but rather a huge leap: instead of superconducting at temperatures below ~40 K, which meant that either liquid hydrogen or liquid helium was required, Yttrium-Barium-Copper-Oxide became the first material discovered to superconduct at temperatures above 77 K (it superconducts at 92 K), meaning that you could use the much cheaper liquid nitrogen to cool your device down to superconducting temperatures.

This discovery led to an explosion of superconductivity research, where a variety of materials were introduced and explored, and not only extreme temperatures but also extreme pressures were applied to these systems. Despite the huge explosion in research surrounding superconductivity, however, the maximum superconductivity temperature stagnated, failing to crack the 200 K barrier (while room temperature is just a hair under 300 K) for decades.

Still image of a liquid nitrogen cooled puck, superconducting above a magnetic track. By creating a … [+] track where the outside magnetic rails point in one direction and the inside magnetic rails point in the other, a Type II superconducting object will levitate, remained pinned above-or-below the track, and will move along it. This could, in principle, be scaled up to allow resistance-free motion on large scales if room-temperature superconductors are achieved.

Henry Mühlpfordt / TU Dresden

Nevertheless, superconductivity has become incredibly important in enabling certain technological breakthroughs. It’s widely used in the creation of the strongest magnetic fields on Earth, which are all made through superconducting electromagnets. With applications ranging from particle accelerators (including the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) to diagnostic medical imaging (they’re an essential component of MRI machines), superconductivity isn’t just itself a fascinating scientific phenomenon, but one that enables some excellent science.

While most of us are probably more familiar with the fun and novel applications of superconductivity — such as using those strong magnetic fields to levitate frogs or taking advantage of superconductivity to make frictionless pucks levitating above and sliding across magnetic tracks — that’s not really the societal goal. The goal is to create an electrified infrastructure system for our planet, from power lines to electronics, where electrical resistance is a thing of the past. While some cryogenically cooled systems currently leverage this, a room-temperature superconductor could lead to an energy-efficiency revolution, as well as infrastructure revolutions in applications such as magnetically levitated trains and quantum computers.

A modern high field clinical MRI scanner. MRI machines are the largest medical or scientific use of … [+] helium today, and make use of quantum transitions in subatomic particles. The intense magnetic fields achieved by these MRI machines rely on field strengths that can only be achieved with superconducting electromagnets, at present.

Wikimedia Commons user KasugaHuang

In 2015, scientists took a relatively simple molecule — hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a molecule very analogous to water (H2O) — and applied an incredible pressure to it: 155 gigapascals, which is over 1500000 times the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere at sea level. (For comparison, this would be like applying more than 10,000 tonnes of force to every square inch of your body!) For the first time, the 200 K barrier was cracked, but only under these extremely pressurized conditions.

This line of research was so promising that many physicists who had become disillusioned with the prospect of achieving a practical solution to the superconductivity questioned took it up once again with renewed interest. In the October 14, 2020 issue of Nature, University of Rochester physicist Ranga Dias and his colleagues mixed hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen, and methane under extreme pressures: ~267 gigapascals, and were able to create a material — a “photochemically transformed carbonaceous sulfur hydride system” — that shattered the temperature record for superconductors.

For the first time, a maximum superconducting transition temperature of 288 K was observed: about 15 degrees Celsius or 59 degrees Fahrenheit. A simple refrigerator or heat pump would suddenly make superconductivity possible.

Inside a material subjected to a changing external magnetic field, small electric currents known as … [+] eddy currents will develop. Normally, these eddy currents decay away rapidly. But if the material is superconducting, there is no resistance, and they will persist indefinitely.

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Last year’s discovery represented a tremendous symbolic breakthrough, as the increase in known superconducting temperatures followed a steady progression in recent years under extreme pressures. The 2015 work in pressurizing hydrogen and sulfur cracked the 200 K barrier, and 2018 research in a high-pressure compound involving lanthanum and hydrogen cracked the 250 K barrier. The discovery of a compound that can superconduct at liquid water temperatures (albeit at extremely high pressures) isn’t exactly a surprise, but it is a really big deal to break the room temperature barrier.

However, it seems that practical applications remain significantly far off. Achieving superconductivity at mundane temperatures but extreme pressures is not significantly more accessible than achieving it at mundane pressures but extreme temperatures; both are barriers to widespread adoption. In addition, the superconducting material only persists as long as the extreme pressures are maintained; once the pressure drops, so does the temperature at which superconductivity occurs. The next big step — one that remains to be taken — is to create a room temperature superconductor without these extreme pressures.

This is an image, taken with scanning SQUID microscopy, of a very thin (200 nanometers) … [+] Yttrium-Barium-Copper-Oxide film subjected to liquid helium temperatures (4 K) and a significant magnetic field. The black spots are vortices created by the eddy currents around the impurities, while the blue/white regions are where all the magnetic flux has been expelled.

F. S. Wells et al., 2015, Scientific Reports volume 5, Article number: 8677

The concern is that there may be some sort of a Catch-22 situation at play here. The highest-temperature superconductors at standard pressures don’t appreciably change in behavior as you vary the pressure, while the ones that superconduct at even higher temperatures under high pressures no longer do so when you reduce the pressure. Solid materials that are good for making wires out of, like the various copper oxides discussed earlier, are very different than the pressurized compounds that are only created in trace quantities under these extreme laboratory conditions.

But — as first reported by Emily Conover at Science News — it’s possible that theoretical work, aided by computational calculations, could help point the way. Each possible combination of materials can give rise to a unique set of structures, and this theoretical and computational search can help identify which structures may be promising for obtaining the desired properties of high-temperature but also lower-pressure superconductors. The 2018 advance that crossed the ~250 K superconducting barrier for the first time, for example, was based on such calculations, which led to the lanthanum-hydrogen compounds that were then experimentally tested.

This diagram shows the structure of the first high-temperature low-pressure superhydride: LaBH8. The … [+] authors on this 2021 work were able to predict a hydride superconductor, LaBH8, with a high superconducting temperature of 126 K at a pressure down to 40 gigapascals: the lowest pressure ever for a high temperature superconducting hydride.

S. Di Cataldo et al., 2021, arXiv:2102.11227v2

Already, such calculations have pointed towards a substantial advance by leveraging a new set of compounds: yttrium and hydrogen, which superconduct at near-room temperatures (-11 Celsius, or 12 Fahrenheit) but at substantially lower pressures than were previously required. While metallic hydrogen — which only exists at ultra-high pressures, such as those found at the bottom of Jupiter’s atmosphere — is expected to be an excellent high-temperature superconductors, the addition of extra elements could lower the pressure requirements while still maintaining the high-temperature superconductivity property.

Theoretically, all single-element combinations with hydrogen have now been explored for superconductivity properties, and the hunt is now on for two-element combinations, such as the carbon-sulfur-hydrogen compound previously discovered experimentally by Dias. Lanthanum and boron with hydrogen has shown promise experimentally, but the number of possible two-element combinations rises into the thousands. Only with computational methods can we receive guidance on what we ought to try next.

Squeezed to high pressure between two diamonds, a material made of carbon, sulfur and hydrogen … [+] superconducts: transmitting electricity without resistance at room temperature. So long as the pressure and temperature simultaneously remain above a certain critical threshold, the resistance will remain at zero. This compound holds the record for highest superconducting temperature: 15 C (59 F).

J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

The biggest questions surrounding high-temperature superconductivity now all involve the pathway to getting to low pressures as well. The true “holy grail” moment will come when mundane conditions — in both temperature and pressure — can create a situation where superconductivity still persists, enabling a wide variety of electronic devices to leverage the power and promise of superconductors. Although individual technologies will advance, from computers to maglev devices to medical imaging and much more, perhaps the biggest benefits will come from the savings of vast amounts of energy in the electrical grid. High-temperature superconductivity, according to the US Department of Energy, could save the United States alone hundreds of billions of dollars in energy distribution costs annually.

In a world of finite energy resources, the elimination of any inefficiencies can benefit everyone: energy providers, distributors, and consumers at all levels. They can eliminate problems such as overheating, greatly reducing the risk of electrical fires. And they can also increase the lifespan of electronic devices while simultaneously reducing the need for heat dissipation. Once a novelty, superconductivity leapt into the scientific mainstream with the 20th century’s advances. Perhaps, if nature is kind, it will leap into the consumer mainstream with 21st century advances. Impressively, we’re already well on our way.

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LED direct wire

Direct wire LEDs are new lighting technology that requires a direct connection to the voltage line. The direct wire LED doesn’t have ballast, so that means the LED never stops working because of the ballast failure. But it can be difficult to set up initially, but after setting up, it will give numerous advantages to the place with the brightness. The main difference between the direct wire LED from other normal lights is that the direct LED doesn’t need ballast in order to illuminate.

In LED direct wire, no cost or time required to replace the ballast, and that is why LED technology is becoming more and more popular these days. The ballast needs additional 5 watts of energy. That is why direct wire LED is more energy-efficient and cost-effective. If you want to save a little more energy in your workplace and save money, then you should consider using LED direct wire. Ballasts will strip working long before the direct wire, so it would be a more wise choice for you.

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50 Micron Atomic Force Microscope Scanner– An Accessory to Expand the Capabilities of Your Microscope

Samples are held in place on this scanner with a removable cap. This modified tripod scanner utilizes low voltage piezoelectric ceramics and temperature compensated strain gauges. Connections to the scanner are made with a 20-pin ribbon cable.

Description

The PS-2010 and PS-2011 piezoelectric scanners are designed for use with the AFMWorkshop TT-2 Atomic Force Microscope, and scan samples in the X, Y, and Z axis. Both products use temperature compensated strain gauges for linearizing scans in the X and Y axis. The PS-2010 has a temperature compensated strain gauge in the Z axis, while the PS-2011 does not. Both scanners use a modified tripod design for creating motion in the XY axis. Motion is generated through a lever arm. The lever arm in the 50 µm scanner is approximately 5:1 and in the 15 µm scanner it is 1:1. Animations on the AFMWorkshop website illustrate how the scanners operate. Each scanner contains a PC board with circuits for measuring ceramic motion with the strain gauge, as well as a 20-pin ribbon cable connector. The scanners are attached to the XY manual positioner with three M6 socket head screws.

Sample Holding Stage

Mounted on standard AFM metal disks, samples are held on an aluminium metal plate with two magnets. As shipped, the sample holder is electronically grounded to the microscope stage to help eliminate unwanted effects from sample charging. Included with each scanner is a levelling sample puck. The puck enables samples to be levelled, reducing the AFM image background bow to less than a few nanometers. The levelling sample puck is magnetically held to the sample stage, and has three set screws to level the puck relative to the XY scan axis.

Interchangeable

The 15 µm and the 50 µm scanners are interchangeable. The scanners are removed from the TT-2 AFM stage by simply unscrewing three M6 socket head screws and unplugging a 20-pin ribbon cable. It takes less than 5 minutes to remove one scanner and to replace it with the other scanner.

AFM accessories include focus assist and image loggers for AFMs, replacement scanners, probe holders, electronics, and stages, dunk and scan and environmental cell scanning options, and documentation packages for all AFMWorkshop atomic force microscope products. Customers can purchase a standalone AFM stage and customize it to their needs using various scanners and light levers. For more details, please visit www.afmworkshop.com or call at 1 (888) 671-5539.

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Read This before You Remodel a Kitchen

Kitchen remodel is not a simple thing to do so before visiting a showroom or hire a Designer, read on to get a few on creating the best place for you. Make cents out of your remodel- Place your second sink outside the main cooking; a second sink would be helpful for the second chef who can prepare food to wash hands, etc.

Paneled cabinet fixed to any exposed side of the cabinet will give your kitchen a furniture look alike. A full-extension, soft-close drawer glides allow the cabinet to pull out by eliminating the slamming. If you want to design a most comfortable kitchen you should keep the current layout. Hire a home Designer of McDermott Remodeling to get the design according to your expectations.

Find a manufacturer who can guide you about different styles of the door without any charge up. it is very important to avoid the custom manufacturing by using stock wine organizers, cubby unit and the appliance to fill awkward spaces. Select low voltage strips and pucks for the cabinet lighting such as Xeon and Lead. Display your cabinet for the less by ordering two cabinets having a square of glass on the top.

Take full advantage of the cabinet interior by selecting the square shelves rather than the angled type of shelves. Drawers versus rollout trays, Drawers take one step to open but in case of rollouts, you have to open the drawer first then pull the tray outside. Drawers are better to store the large cookware whereas roll-out trays are easy to retrofit and better for storing the small number of items. You should consider the open shelving for everyday objects, cookbooks, oversized items, and wine racks. McDermott Remodeling for getting the best and remodeling services for your kitchen.

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Top Kitchen Lighting Tips from Home Design Experts.

There are plenty of things you would rather do in a well-lit kitchen like cutting meat and peeling potatoes. Moreover, the lines between the kitchen and other parts of the house have faded gradually. From being exclusively for cooking, it has evolved into a place that serves as the heart of the household. These days, the flurry in the kitchen isn’t only from the clanking of pots and pans but also the words shared by family and friends. Hence, it’s only correct to take some time to plan the kitchen lighting out. Here are the top kitchen lighting tips from home design experts:

The 4 Lighting Types

   Before moving forward it is important to know that there are four types of lighting that can be used not only in the kitchen but in any room, in any space. These are the task, accent, ambient and decorative lighting. If these layers are blended properly and used with other elements, you’ll be able to create a warm, safe and appealing environment, no matter the size.

Task Lighting

   Task lighting is the first thing to be considered when designing a kitchen lighting system, simply because it’s rudimentary to food preparation. It is should be placed in areas where you intend to do most of the work. Your key locations are over the kitchen island and below the hanging cabinets---anywhere you plan to slice, chop, grind and read recipes.

   Under-the-cabinet lighting can be an asset to the room by providing a warm and soft glow with the help of a dimmer switch. This technique is ideal for homes which have a sleek look, as the bulbs and cords are concealed. Some popular options are puck lights, string lights, and long linear bulbs.

   Over-the-island lighting is a conventional technique too. Pendant lights are the tradition but if you want an uninterrupted look, opt for flush lights.

Ambient Lighting

   Home design experts say that ambient lighting is the most commonly disregarded feature in the kitchen but it is actually what softens the overall lighting design. It softens the shadows and emits a warm glow that will make people more comfortable in the kitchen and add a savory look to your dishes. Place them on corners or hide them behind the moldings. The point is to add drama to the room.

Accent Lighting

   Decades ago, accent lighting was only for museums and exhibits. However, as more people use the kitchen for entertainment, it has become vital to kitchen lighting design.

   You probably want to showcase some areas in the kitchen like the cabinet that holds your china collection or that painting hanging just above the console table. Simply direct the lights towards the object that you want people to look at. Wall sconces, track lighting, directional eyeball lights and up-lighters are just some of the most commonly-used fixtures to accentuate something. For highlighting artworks, design experts recommend low-voltage fixtures.

Decorative Lighting

   Decorative lighting uses lighting fixtures which are evident design elements. Thus, these should catch the interest of people by standing out but still being in harmony with the surrounding environment. Typically, it’s in the form of a chandelier or a pendant.

   Make sure the size of the fixture is only proportional to that of your kitchen. Otherwise, it will overpower other design elements in the room. The opacity of the shade should also be enough to veil the light bulb and keep the glare at a pleasant level.

   Although it is not fundamental to a kitchen’s primary purpose, decorative lighting adds another layer of charm that can be an asset if you do a lot of entertaining or if you’re planning to put the property in the market. Be careful not to overdo this. Limit the bold pieces to 2-3 for an average kitchen for this purpose, and make sure they don’t compete with each other in order to avoid a cluttered look.

How to Make the Them Work Together

   When the four types of lighting mentioned above are used together, you can form a layered lighting design. Start by identifying the best locations for each type then decide on the type of fixture. Do not forget switches and dimmers, as they will allow you to adjust the mood with your fingertips.

Consider a Scene Integration System

   Switches and dimmers are easy to manipulate. Unfortunately, this ease is also available to children. To prevent other people from playing with your preferred light levels, consider a scene integration system. This type of system allows you to preset the lighting levels for different times of the day. However, this convenience doesn’t come cheap, with the standard setup priced at almost $1,000. You can add more scenes but as you do, the cost of the system increases.

What to Keep In Mind during the Design Process

Create a conducive workspace while keeping a clean look by using under-the-cabinet or recessed fixtures for task lighting. Reserve the more interesting ones for the ceiling. Intricate pieces will provide a comfortable glow and keep the kitchen interesting after the cooking part is over.

Design the kitchen lighting system at the beginning of the kitchen design process. It must be planned while considering the finishes of the walls, cabinets, and countertops. Do not flood the room with light if the finishes are already reflective, and vice versa. Otherwise, you’re going to produce a glare. Adjust the lighting design to the color temperature in order to create a comfortable kitchen environment. Mirrors also reflect light, so limit them or limit the source of light.

Do not forget the natural light. Frame out the windows using appropriate treatments.

Use energy-efficient products. Look for the “Energy Star” logo because it is an indication that the product is friendly to the environment, using electricity efficiently.

Complicated installations must be performed by a licensed electrician. You’ll be able to save more time and energy if your elaborate kitchen lighting design is handled by skilled hands. Furthermore, a licensed electrician knows all the safety measures that should be taken throughout the entire project.

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14 Tips to gain light in the kitchen

When designing a kitchen and Cabinet Resurfacing it is absolutely essential to consider lighting. The different activity points and the room as a whole require custom light treatments.

Kitchens are not just for cooking, they are often the place where people gather at home. Whether you are looking for better lighting for your cooking tasks or want to create a more welcoming space for friends and family, here are 14 tips to improve kitchen lighting.

1. Add layers

Since no single accessory will provide all the necessary light for kitchen lighting tasks, try adding layers. Use a top light with smaller layers of lights placed in areas for various tasks, such as near a food preparation station, over the stove and over the kitchen sink. Adding layers will also help reduce brightness.

2. Add environment

Ambient lighting in the kitchen is often overlooked in the kitchen areas, and can help fill any lighting gap, while creating a warm glow for the room and is an economical way to improve your kitchen.

3. Think of tasks

Properly positioned kitchen lighting to facilitate tasks will provide adequate lighting for tasks such as reading recipes and preparing vegetables. The best place for task lighting is between the work surface and the head of a person, so the lighting placed under the cabinets is ideal. And strip lights are a popular option for this space.

4. Use dimmers

Adding light switches in the kitchen makes sense because bright lighting makes tasks easier, while dimmed lights help create an environment after the meal. The addition of separate kitchen lighting dimmers for each fixture will help you customize the lighting for each situation.

5. Add depth with accents

Accentuated kitchen lighting gives depth and dimension to your space. For example, if you have a cabinet to store decorative glassware or a porcelain collection, find the right type of LED light for space. And string lights and disco lights are popular for this type of cabinet lighting.

6. Add a wall sconce for kitchen lighting

Adding wall sconces for kitchen lighting is a unique way to show what makes your kitchen special, such as highlighting a work of art. And the sconces can also help with ambient light. Try low voltage fixtures for your kitchen light wall sconces.

7. Think of three

Instead of a main kitchen light, try three identical hanging fixtures over the center of the kitchen. Pendants come in a variety of styles, from classic to modern, and multi-watt bulbs can be used, depending on the amount of kitchen lighting needed. It is worth trying.

8. The power of track lighting

Nobody wants to work in their own shade, so this is where the lighting of the kitchen on the floor comes in. In fact, track lighting is increasing in popularity as a superior lighting source because it is available in energy efficiency options. But it also allows you to place each light to personalize your space, among them the rail lighting installation is a project that can be completed in a weekend.

9. Highlight your centerpiece

Don't be afraid to go big when you replace a centerpiece of kitchen light. Whether it's a classic chandelier or something that reflects your eclectic style, a large and bold piece in the center of the kitchen will make a statement.

10. Sometimes less, it is more

When considering the main kitchen lighting options, lighting designers say there is such a thing as too much. Therefore, try to keep a main piece in bold, or two or three pendants over an area. Competitive hanging fixtures can make a kitchen look messy, and if more lighting is needed for work spaces, try affordable rail lighting or lights under the cabinet.

11. Open shelf lighting

If your kitchen has open shelves, add LED light strips or puck lights on the back or under the shelves. This will create light to highlight the objects on the shelves.

12. Be aware of color

When choosing your accessories, think about the color of your kitchen. Since white reflects the light, if you have a lot of white in your kitchen, you may be able to reduce the wattage of the bulbs. But those with darker kitchen lighting may need more power.

13. A light in the dark

Do you have a space that is always dark, like the back of a cabinet or pantry? Install a motion sensor that will activate a puck or LED light when the door is opened. This will help you find the pot you need, or the spice that is hard to see in the dark cabinet, even when you crave a snack at midnight it will be useful.

14. A simple makeover

If you want an update, try the recessed can converters, which are as easy as screwing a light bulb. This will allow you to add elegant pendants for a simple kitchen makeover.

This is all you need to have a more illuminated kitchen, as well as practice to perform the tasks in that place and with a special style. Follow the tips of Kitchens that best favor you and have an ideal kitchen. 

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The lighting of garment steamer

Being an industrial and business grade, it is excellent for kitchens and workshops and garages, bathrooms, etc.. With a warranty, you will barely have any concern regarding the possibility of malfunctioning. Also, this adds on its flexibility because it makes it ideal for bookcases,  Click here sinks, kitchen counter, etc.. Safety of your child is on the check; this light has a low voltage which makes it a very safe option. We rinsed it, disassembled it and then watched the white chunks circle down the drain. Point your steamer, and it will melt and have absorbed by the towel as it melts. Hyperion LED things all around, and you will unquestionably not regret it if you decide to purchase it. With the ideal attributes for a lighting kit that is efficient and strong, there is not any reason not to buy this Eshine lighting. If the purchaser does not provide to your satisfaction, A full refund is guaranteed.

Your electricity bill does not have to cost you an arm and a leg while using these lights; its power consumption lets you enjoy good lighting without needing to pay hefty power bills. The nozzle design enables you to use it like a steamer or even an iron to remove wrinkles. Steam under stress that is less works quite well in eliminating these unsightly wrinkles. High output is an excellent indication of a top quality brand of steam cleaner machines. They arrive depending on the brand Because they are small. All three carpets seem brand new! Another bonus is that it comes with three LED strip lighting that offers lighting which lets you see clearly without being bright. For LED light which allows you to raise or lower the brightness generated, then the Cabrillo is an excellent bargain for you.

This steamer allows you to have clothes steaming routine and comes pre-packaged with tools and add-ons to increase its versatility. It does not get any better than that. If you are searching for an entire package together with the clothes steamer, this is a 1500-watt steamer, which has. This full-size cloth steamer heats up at 45 seconds and comes with a 64-ounce removable water tank that provides steam for up to one hour which is lots enough time to multiple outfits that are un-wrinkle. One of the most significant features of this version is its pre-heat style, which can be used if regularly used daily to conserve energy, such as for a home seamstress or a tailor shop. Being aflicker-free heat light that offers you convenience, durability, and versatility, you are confident that the Abrillo LED under cupboard lighting is an excellent purchase.

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Lighting up Your Life

Lighting up Your Life

You are visiting a friend that has just had a beautiful kitchen remodel done. It is a lovely kitchen with stunning granite countertops and a sharp looking tile backsplash. The glass door cabinets are filled with the good china. Somehow after spending a small fortune the room still looks a bit drab. So many times people spend a wad of money renovating a room and neglect to take the lighting into consideration. Properly placed lighting of the correct type can literally make or break a room. That tile backsplash can be brought to life with some low voltage linear lighting. The china in those glass door cabinets can really show itself off with some puck lights and glass shelves. Recessed lighting and a combination of switching options can give a room many personalities to suit any mood. From bright light for working conditions to subtle lighting for a romantic setting can all be accomplished with switches and dimmers. Accent lighting to highlight certain aspects of a project that were carefully planned but would barely be noticed otherwise. Cove lighting above crown moldings helps focus attention to the detail of the room. In a bathroom lighting is very important and many times overlooked. Placing recessed lights above can cause grief if a supplemental light is not placed on the wall near the vanity. When shaving or applying makeup those overhead lights cause unwanted shadows. By placing an additional light such as a wall sconce can eliminate that problem. When you carefully plan that next renovation project or new home be sure the lighting is well planned out as well.

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Transformative? New Device Harvests Energy from Darkness

Aaswath Raman was driving through a village in Sierra Leone in 2013 when an idea came to him as suddenly as, perhaps, a light bulb switching on.

The village was not equipped with electricity, and Dr. Raman, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, was unaware he was in a village until he heard the voices of shadowed human figures.

“It took us about five minutes to realize we were passing through a town, because it was completely dark,” Dr. Raman said. “There wasn’t a single light on.”

Dr. Raman wondered whether he could use all that darkness to make something to light it up, not unlike the way that solar panels generate electricity from the sun’s heat and light.

He did. In new research published on Thursday in the journal Joule, Dr. Raman demonstrated a way to harness a dark night sky to power a light bulb.

His prototype device employs radiative cooling, the phenomenon that makes buildings and parks feel cooler than the surrounding air after sunset. As Dr. Raman’s device releases heat, it does so unevenly, the top side cooling more than the bottom. It then converts the difference in heat into electricity. In the paper, Dr. Raman described how the device, when connected to a voltage converter, was able to power a white LED.

“The core enabling feature of this device is that it can cool down,” Dr. Raman said.

Jeffrey C. Grossman, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies passive cooling and solar technology, said the work was “quite exciting” and showed promise for the development of low-power applications at night.

“They have suggested reasonable paths for increasing the performance of their device,” Dr. Grossman said. “But there is definitely a long way to go if they want to use it as an alternative to adding battery storage for solar cells.”

Everything emits heat, according to the laws of thermodynamics. At night, when one side of Earth turns away from the sun, its buildings, streets and jacket-less people cool off. If no clouds are present to trap warmth, objects on the Earth can lose so much heat that they reach a lower temperature than the air surrounding them. This is why blades of grass may be glazed in frost on clear fall mornings, even when the air temperature is above freezing. The cloudless atmosphere becomes a porthole to the void, through which warmth flows like air through a porch screen.

Humans have taken advantage of this effect for millenniums. Six thousand years ago, people in what are now Iran and Afghanistan constructed enormous beehive-shaped structures called yakhchal, which used this passive cooling effect to create and store ice in the desert.

Modern scientists have studied how to harness energy from Earth’s day-night swings in temperature, but that work has mostly remained theoretical. In 2014, researchers led by Federico Capasso, an electrical engineering professor at Harvard, calculated that at best only about 4 watts of energy can be extracted from a square meter of cold space. By contrast, a photovoltaic panel, the most common type of solar panel, generates about 200 watts per square meter in direct sunlight.

Nonetheless, a device that could produce any amount of electricity at night would be valuable; after the sun sets, solar cells don’t work and winds often die down, even as demand for lighting peaks.

Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineer at Stanford and an author on Dr. Raman’s study, has been at the vanguard of this research. Last fall, Dr. Fan’s team described a device that can generate electricity with solar panels during the day, then use the passive cooling effect to chill a building at night. Earlier this year, they also tested an infrared photodiode, similar to the technology used in most solar cells but which uses warmth, not sunlight, to generate wisps of electricity in the darkness.

The prototype built by Dr. Raman resembles a hockey puck set inside a chafing dish. The puck is a polystyrene disk coated in black paint and covered with a wind shield. At its heart is an off-the shelf gadget called a thermoelectric generator, which uses the difference in temperature between opposite sides of the device to generate a current. A similar device powers NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars; its thermoelectric generator derives heat from plutonium radiation.

Usually, the temperature difference in these generators is stark, and they are carefully engineered to separate hot and cold. Dr. Raman’s device instead uses the atmosphere’s ambient temperature as the heat source. The shift from warm to cool is very slight, meaning the device can’t produce much power.

His puck-in-a-dish is elevated on aluminum legs, enabling air to flow around it. As the dark puck loses warmth to the night sky, the side facing the stars grows colder than the side facing the air-warmed tabletop. This slight difference in temperature generates a flow of electricity.

When paired with a voltage converter, the prototype produced 25 milliwatts of power per square meter. That is about three orders of magnitude lower than what a typical solar panel produces, and well short of even the roughly 4-watt maximum efficiency for such devices. Still, several experts said the prototype was an important contribution to a new and relatively unusual space in the renewable energy sector.

“This is a neat combination of radiative cooling — a technique where Raman has pioneered real working devices — with thermoelectric materials that generate electricity if one side is hotter than the other side,” said Ellen D. Williams, a physics professor at the University of Maryland and a former director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. “Both technologies are proven and practical, but I haven’t seen them combined like this. They did this with inexpensive materials, suggesting it could be made into useful products for the developing world.”

One challenge will be improving the device’s efficiency without raising its costs, said Lance Wheeler, a materials scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. Although thermoelectric devices are less efficient and more expensive than photovoltaic cells, they can be more durable.

“You could call this a long play,” he said. “It is just a piece of metal with spray paint on it. It could last for a super long time, and its rivals, photovoltaic cells and batteries, don’t. It can enhance any thermoelectric device as long as it’s outside facing the stars.”

Conceivably, Dr. Raman said, thermoelectric devices could complement solar-powered lights in areas where changing batteries is a challenge, like on street lamps or in remote areas far from electrical grids.

“I figured the amount of electricity we could get would be pretty small, and it was,” he said. “But walking around in Sierra Leone, I realized lighting remains a big problem, so it’s an opportunity as well.”

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A Summary On LED Under Cabinet Light

By William Stewart

With regards to a kitchen, lighting is a standout amongst the most significant viewpoints. In addition to the fact that it helps you understand what you were cutting up or blending inside the pot, it likewise characterizes the interesting style and texture of the kitchen space. This is while overhead lighting was the need for some mortgage holders. You ought to likewise consider introducing LED under cabinet light on your work zone. For instance, an individual with visual perception issues may need low-power lightning without the agonizing glare. Dimmers guarantee that everybody can work inside the lighting circumstances they favor best. Dimmers additionally prove to be useful when you need some state of mind lighting in the kitchen. Apparatus focal points are significant in making a uniform light appropriation, limiting brilliant reflections on a counter. Note under cupboard lighting is not only for a kitchen. You can utilize it any place you have introduced cupboards, be it your storm cellar bar or lounge area. Under office, striking can supplement the fundamental overhead igniting. It tends to be particularly valuable in giving concentrated brightening on the work zone and featuring the backsplash. Indeed, even with a splendid overhead light, glooms may in any case structure. This is because of divider cupboards. Setting light under the cupboards kills these shadows, giving sufficient enlightenment to your preparing and nourishment arrangement. Introducing under bureau igniting has a major effect on the appearance of a space. Contingent upon the kind of bright introduced, your kitchen or washroom can achieve a hotter, increasingly contemporary or progressively advanced feel making for an agreeable space. Introduce the mounting top, protecting it with screws. Curve the bright on the top. For recessed puck decorations, you should slice through the agency underside utilizing an opening saw. Secure a mounting top with screws and turn the puck bright inside. The power center point interfacing all the puck illuminations to the electrical plug likewise should be mounted beneath the bureau. For both puck also strip lights, it was a smart thought. We have just spoken a little about warmth yield under vitality effectiveness. To recap, fluorescent, or Drove igniting are best with regards to warmth yield. They were cool towards the touch. This was particularly significant inside a kitchen where convinced sustenance or nourishment fixings could be delicate to warm. Xenon lighting gets somewhat more sizzling than both fluorescent or Drove. Halogen lighting is regularly viewed as the most sweltering. Note that any transformer is vital on the off chance that you decide on low voltage light. The transformer ventures down the high one hundred twenty Volts of voltage in a lower twelve Volts or twenty-four Volts of voltage. For the most part, the transformer would be introduced inside the agency or into another remote area along a circuit. There were two essential sorts of wiring utilized with under agency igniting, hard-wire also basic module. There are a couple of different components that are for the highest part simply a question of reference. For instance, do you drive for puck decorations, direct, or strip lights? Straight lights, for example, Drove strips will, in general, give uniform illumination on a work external. Puck lights then again give spots of centered illumination. Another inquiry is, recessed and surface straddling? There was not much distinction between the two sorts with regards. So, for simplicity of establishment, our suggestion was plug in striking. A few merchants will sell under office striking that could either be connected or designed. Different sorts of below agency igniting are module just or hard-wire as it were. So, ensure you check wiring prerequisites when looking for below agency igniting. A few kinds of under bureau igniting need no wiring necessities by any means. They are battery fueled.

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The Design Of AFM Workshop's 50 Micron AFM Scanner

Samples are held in place on this scanner with a removable cap. This modified tripod scanner utilizes low voltage piezoelectric ceramics and temperature compensated strain gauges. Connections to the scanner are made with a 20-pin ribbon cable.

Description Model: PS-2010

The PS-2010 and PS-2011 piezoelectric scanners are designed for use with the AFM Workshop TT-AFM, and scan samples in the X, Y, and Z axis. Both products use temperature compensated strain gauges for linearizing scans in the X and Y axis. The PS-2010 has a temperature compensated strain gauge in the Z axis, while the PS-2011 does not. Both scanners use a modified tripod design for creating motion in the XY axis. Motion is generated through a lever arm. The lever arm in the 50 µm scanner is approximately 5:1 and in the 15 µm scanner it is 1:1. Animations on the AFMWorkshop website (www.afmworkshop.com) illustrate how the scanners operate. Each scanner contains a PC board with circuits for measuring ceramic motion with the strain gauge, as well as a 20 pin ribbon cable connector. The scanners are attached to the XY manual positioner with three M6 socket head screws.

Sample Holding Stage

Mounted on standard AFM metal disks, samples are held on an aluminum metal plate with two magnets. As shipped, the sample holder is electronically grounded to the microscope stage to help eliminate unwanted effects from sample charging. Included with each scanner is a leveling sample puck. The puck enables samples to be leveled, reducing the AFM image background bow to less than a few nanometers. The leveling sample puck is magnetically held to the sample stage, and has three set screws to level the puck relative to the XY scan axis.

Interchangeable

The 15 µm and the 50 µm scanners are interchangeable. The scanners are removed from the TT-AFM stage by simply unscrewing three M6 socket head screws and unplugging a 20 pin ribbon cable. It takes less than 5 minutes to remove one scanner and to replace it with the other scanner.

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You can add additional modes and accessories to achieve that. AFM accessories include focus assist and image loggers for AFMs, replacement scanners, probe holders, electronics, and stages, dunk and scan and environmental cell scanning options, and documentation packages for all AFMWorkshop atomic force microscope products. Customers can purchase a standalone AFM stage and customize it to their needs using various scanners and light levers. Environmental cells and dunk and scan packages allow AFM scanning for samples submerged in liquids and inert gas.

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A Summary On LED Under Cabinet Light

By William Stewart

With regards to a kitchen, lighting is a standout amongst the most significant viewpoints. In addition to the fact that it helps you understand what you were cutting up or blending inside the pot, it likewise characterizes the interesting style and texture of the kitchen space. This is while overhead lighting was the need for some mortgage holders. You ought to likewise consider introducing LED under cabinet light on your work zone. To be sheltered, get the splendid choices and after that introduce a dimmer for additional control. Introducing a Drove strip is genuinely simple and clear. You simply need to quantify the length of a bureau along where you mean to introduce the lights and after that remove a similar length from your Drove strip. You will require additional low-voltage wires on the rotten chance that you intend to associate a dimmer towards the band. Halogen or xenon installations can be particularly glaring making it important to incorporate focal points in your buy. Vitality productivity has turned into an extremely significant piece of private illumination. In the event that you are searching for the most vitality productive under bureau illumination choice, Drove is the spot to go. Some Driven installations use as meager like 5 watts while as yet radiating sufficient brightening. An additional bit of leeway is that Driven lights are anything but difficult to diminish, adding to their energy sparing capacity. They likewise produce next to no warmth. Xenon lights were less energy productive however are still much superior to anything the power-eating brilliant lights. They have a pleasant warm shine, giving your kitchen an unattractive mood. They are additionally dimmable that can help spare some energy. Introduce the mounting top, protecting it with screws. Curve the bright on the top. For recessed puck decorations, you should slice through the agency underside utilizing an opening saw. Secure a mounting top with screws and turn the puck bright inside. The power center point interfacing all the puck illuminations to the electrical plug likewise should be mounted beneath the bureau. For both puck also strip lights, it was a smart thought. These are typical voltage illumination or low voltage illumination. There is no critical distinction in vitality reserve funds, bright quality or life expectancy between high voltage also low voltages under agency striking. Low power illumination anyway has a couple of points of interest. For one, you could utilize littler apparatuses, making it conceivable to fit more illuminations inside a tight space below the agency. Besides, low voltage bright produces less warmth. As glowing lights keep on losing their gloss throughout the most recent couple of years. Driven is a truncation for light transmitting diodes. This sort of lighting utilizes various diodes to transmit light. Glowing bulbs then again, use wire fibers that are warmed to deliver light. The absence of warmth was one of the essential reasons why LEDs were more vitality productive and last more. Hard-wiring includes associating the decorations straightforwardly to the current wiring inside the house. Power was drawn legitimately from any power source. Fitting in draws control from an electrical plug, regularly a divider attachment. Clearly, module igniting is the less difficult and most economical alternative that you could even introduce yourself. For a hard-wire alternatives, the administrations of an expert circuit tester will be essential. A great many people accept that surface straddling puck decorations would look ugly. Be that as it may, these apparatuses are generally meager, guaranteeing they do not stand out grossly from under the bureau. Seeing that they were the most famous alternative for property holders, we have given a concise review on the best way to introduce Drove under bureau igniting to introduce that need hard-wiring to capacity or style and lessening glare.

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Undercabinet Lighting Boosts Kitchen Efficiency

Hardwired LED fixtures illuminate backsplash and countertops.

When light in the kitchen is at a premium, undercabinet lighting makes a huge difference. Seldom does a Madison WI homeowner say “I have too much light on my kitchen counters.” More likely it’s “I hate working in the shadows. Overhead cabinets, shelves and kitchen helpers all cast shadows on the work space. Traditional light fixtures don’t cover all the nooks.

Kitchen lights come in three basic categories: task lighting, accent lights and decorative fixtures.

Task lighting – fixtures designed to illuminate work space like food prep areas, inside pantries and above islands. Undercabinet lights are important additions to this category.

Accent lights – highlight specific areas and add depth and dimension to the room. Track lighting and recessed fixtures fit this group.

Decorative lights – add interest to the kitchen as well as light. Include chandeliers and wall-mounted fixtures in this group.

The correct lights make a kitchen both functional and attractive. Lighting underneath the upper cabinets provides important benefits:

Better working condition – when working in the kitchen the entire counter space is illuminated. You can “see what you’re doing.” No more shadows.

Enhance design and ambiance – the entire look of the space changes when lights shine from beneath the cabinets. The room takes on a warmer look and feel.

Evaluate Undercabinet Lighting Options

In a potentially dark space, evenly-spaced lighting beneath the cabinets creates a warm, shadowless space.

Choices for lights beneath the cabinets include LED, fluorescent and incandescent sources. In choosing the type right for your kitchen remodel, consider:

Voltage – there are two options: normal household 120V; and low-voltage 12V or 24V lights. Low voltage allows the use of smaller fixtures so more lights fit into a small space. However a transformer must be used with the system.

System wiring – many systems link multiple fixtures and the entire system is “just plugged in.” Hard-wired systems can be included in house wiring and operated by a wall switch.

Can you dim the lights – modern systems allow you to dim the undercabinet lights to control the amount of light on the counters. Dimming reduces glare from bright counters, as well.

How hot do they get – LED lights and fluorescent bulbs generate the least heat and remain cool to the touch. They are the first options for most home remodeling projects.

Energy use – LED lights are by far the most energy efficient.

The High-tech Kitchen Lighting Choice

Advances in technology and multiple design styles give an edge to LED lighting. A typical units has an average lifespan of about 50,000 hours – lifetime in a kitchen. The ability to dim, low-profile designs and cool operation make the natural selections.

LED stands for Light Emitting Diodes.  The lack of heat is one of the main values of these high-tech lights. In a room where larger appliances generate plenty of heat, lights that don’t are valuable. LED lights are said to be more than 90% more efficient than standard light sources.

There are two typical LED styles: strip lights and individual or “puck” lights. Your design and style dictate which works best. Both are popular. Both are dimmable many have replaceable lenses to change the intensity of the light.

Consider these benefits of LED undercabinet lighting:

Energy efficient – enhances the kitchen workspace without increasing energy bills.

Low heat output – they don’t add heat to an already easily warmed room.

Long lifespan – they outlive competitors by years.

Installation options – can be hard-wired to your system or installed as a simple plug-in series.

Dimmable – control intensity and add ambiance as well.

No system is perfect. There are some drawbacks, too:

The main drawback of an LED system is its initial cost. Although prices are steadily coming down they are a bit higher than other options. However the cost difference is often overshadowed by the system’s energy savings.

Westring Construction LLC specializes in remodeling Madison area homes. No assignment is too large to take from planning through final finishing. Call Westring Construction LLC at 608-441-5435 or email us to discuss the latest undercabinet lighting for your Madison WI kitchen.

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