How Luminii's Kendo M can enhance your Lighting Design
Luminii has always been dedicated to the needs of the lighting designer. There are plenty of companies out there who make small form factor sticks of light, but few manufacturers focus so intently on what makes for great lighting. Luminii's obsession with color is what set them apart in the early years of the company. In an age of inconsistent LED tapes, Luminii made sure their tape delivered high color quality and consistency. Since then that complete focus on making great light has extended to supporting dimming drivers that smoothly dim down to 0.1% embracing warm dimming and color tuning.
The Luminii offering is extensive and growing, but this post focuses on the Kendo M. The Kendo M is the most diverse small form factor in the Luminii line. Offering a full compliment of CCTs, and now offering a grazing optic, snap-on louvers and adjustable mounting brackets, the Kendo M is more than a line of light. It's a tool for Lighting designers to enhance the spaces the work on.
The video above will take you through the performance of the Kendo M, including the mounting using the adjustable clips, the grazing optic and the effects of the louver. The video is 9 minutes, but feel free to skim through it, I won't be offended.
This post is going to focus on the nuisances of specifying the product.
All Luminii cut sheets begin with he basic details of the fixtures including their dimension. Revit Files are available as well as ACAD blocks. Don’t skip the features, you might find something like a surprise closet rating.
A recent addition to Luminii cut sheets are these charts explaining light loss with different optic options as well as what combinations outputs and lenses will create dotting.
I’ve truncated this for clarity, but this chart gives you the actual length of every specifiable increment of the fixture as well as the power consumption for driver sizing.
Every compatible power supply is listed on the last pages of the cut sheet including dimming levels, technology, lowest dim level and dimensions at different wattage capacities.
Luminii cut sheets are thorough. But they also know that samples are king. If you need a sample Luminii is ready to help.
