Residential Lighting Control 

What do they do for me?

Lighting controls provide an aesthetic and highly flexible enhancement to your home’s décor and also offer the potential for significant energy savings. The ability to control the amount of light is a very powerful design tool that can create the perfect ambiance in any room or area of your home.

The ability to control the amount of light in a room can reflect your style and allow you to enjoy your home to its fullest potential. Varying the amount of light can add beauty and drama…make a small room look open and spacious… or a large room appear more intimate and inviting. It can create a stimulating atmosphere for a night of entertaining, a cinematic experience for watching a movie, a refreshing “wake up” feeling when the day begins or a quiet feeling of relaxation after a long tiring day. When considering the lighting options for your home, you will want to take into account the types of activities that will occur in each room and the sort of atmosphere you wish to create for the perfect ambiance.

LIGHTING CONTROLS

What are they?

Lighting Controls include several types of products and technologies. The most familiar are commonly referred to as dimmers, which are mounted on the wall in place of a standard wall switch and give you the ability to control the lighting level. They allow you to adjust the intensity of light for a single source, e.g., a chandelier, or for multiple lighting sources in a particular room, e.g., a home theater, or for multizone lighting sources, e.g., an advanced system that controls the lighting in your entire home. Other lighting controls include timers for preset on/off operation of selected indoor and outdoor lighting, motion sensors used mostly for outdoor lighting, and occupancy sensors which turn the lights on and off automatically.

What do they do?

A dimmer switch gives you the ability to brighten or dim the light level of an independent light source in a room. By adding a scene controller, you can control individual dimmers in a room or area from a single convenient location. With scene lighting, any group of fixtures – including multiple lights that draw power from different locations – can be turned on simultaneously at different brightness levels. For example, one group of lights can be set to “full brightness,” while another group can be set to “half brightness.” The brightness levels for individual scenes are programmed into the scene controller. With the simple press of a button, you can recall up to 32 programmable lighting scenes – both indoors and outdoors. Whether you choose standard dimmers or scene control dimming, you can custom tailor your lighting to set a mood or complete a task.