Any lighting experts here? I need advice.

[slowmotion]

I'm fixing up a small room/ nerve centre for world domination. I'm putting in a fixed desk, about 1600 mm wide, on which my 21" PC screen will sit. The desk is about 850mm front to back The ceiling is about 1500mm above it. The computer screen will be about 400 mm from the wall. Can you give me some advice about where I might place a couple of 38 degree LED spotlights in the ceiling? The beam can be adjusted by 15 degrees or so., LED spotlights have a pitiful range of beam angles. Here's a really awful diagram. Thank you.


Here's some mood music....

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[Sharky]

Would a head light work?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'd be more concerned about the hockey stick rammed up your arse.

 

[slowmotion]

I'd be more concerned about the hockey stick rammed up your arse.

Please leave my personal predilections out of this.or I may be forced to call the Mods.

 

[slowmotion]

Would a head light work?
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Errgh...no.

 

[Aperitif]

Keep it flexible - and stylish. Then you decide on your light, and where it falls...either the Z Bar or the equo give dimmable LED

Unpunctured ceilings are 'way to go'!

 

[MarkF]

Send an email to your local electrical wholesaler, their in-house design team will advise you free of charge. It's such a fast moving industry that they'll have better ideas than folk on here, no offence but I used to be a lighting designer..............I'd have a downlight giving you a constant acceptable level of light at your working plane and something like Apertif suggested for as and when required.......

 

[Aperitif]

^ I'd use uplighter/s or incidentals - switched by a simple remote on the desktop - total mood control that would make the worst yellow beer taste like Kernel Citra IPA Mmmmmmm! A motion detector for one 'maintenance' light in order to walk in comfortably in the dark, the conventional wall switch only needed for when the servants need to clean and polish. No fear of reflection on the screen - only in your profound postings, Martin.

 

[slowmotion]

^ I'd use uplighter/s or incidentals - switched by a simple remote on the desktop - total mood control that would make the worst yellow beer taste like Kernel Citra IPA Mmmmmmm! A motion detector for one 'maintenance' light in order to walk in comfortably in the dark, the conventional wall switch only needed for when the servants need to clean and polish. No fear of reflection on the screen - only in your profound postings, Martin.

FFS! I'm only looking for a little place to plan world domination, not some hipster style statement where I can be photographed drinking exotic tea for a LifeStyle Supplement.

 

[Aperitif]

FFS! I'm only looking for a little place to plan world domination, not some hipster style statement where I can be photographed drinking exotic tea for a LifeStyle Supplement.

Don't allow the snappers near then! Your comfort, your eyes, your bien-être...and save the world domination for others - life's too short to bring back hanging...lights.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

 

[slowmotion]

Don't allow the snappers near then! Your comfort, your eyes, your bien-être...and save the world domination for others - life's too short to bring back hanging...lights.

Sorry old bean...World Domination is strictly non-negotiable.

 

[Aperitif]

[QUOTE 4002344, member: 9609"]forget the idea of glarie spotlights and their inevitable annoying shadows, and fit a 5 foot florescence tube instead. best lighting ever.[/QUOTE]
Make it a twin one - about 10,000 lux will kill off all threat of World Domination, Shepherds Bush style.

Sorry about the crappy crop - world domination is-a-calling.

 

[tyred]

I call bullshit on the world domination bit. You haven't got an underground lair in a hollowed out volcano, so are an effete arriviste on the world dominators' forum.

Does he have a white cat and a cigarette holder?

 

[tyred]

The OP