- Appearance: Height 1.80m, head does not swivel. Who is over 1.90 m will probably be dazzled by the uplight. The Russet is rather dark, matt and has a rather rough surface. Experience with the sensitivity (dust, scratches) I have not yet, but very fine cloths could get stuck in it. The brass color of the two controllers is a matter of taste, but it fits better in my opinion to the brown than in the usual black, or chrome. The lamp is quite stable and wobble-free, the foot is under the cover, a heavy rubber base. Lack foot controller goes from just one cable from the socket.
Due to the two glass bowls of powered ceiling lamp radiates the light, as opposed to a model with metal screen, both downward and to the side from. This has like everything in life advantages and disadvantages. Advantage: The space is illuminated directly below the top edge and works by brighter. Disadvantage: This more direct shadow caused. Both of the reading lamp itself, as well as furniture, plants or people.
In a glass bowl of reading lamp clearly outweigh the disadvantage for me that the hidden "backwards" emerging light. This reduces the function of the additional, horizontal lighting virtually zero!
- Technology: The metal acts sufficiently stable, the cables are well insulated. The knobs have a switch-on, although not impact on power consumption. Ie. Fully dimmed, but "to" no measurable current flowing to the socket. The reading lamp consumes me max 27Watt and not 40 as stated above in the product description, it may not even, because according to label maximum 28Watt are allowed !! Like the uplight. The consumed me max 217W and must not be less than 230W loud sticker !! In the description above is 300W. It may be here but not be a principle equivalent specification for halogen bulbs, because my old uplight is specified with 300Watt and tolerate this loud stickers and many years of experience also. This information is clearly misleading or just plain wrong!
However, the function of the knob itself is almost perfect and sublime at the price beyond any doubt! Turning is crisp and precise, the mechanical rotational resistance low, but good. And here it comes: both lamps can be easily turn down the brightness under a firefly! This creates my old Deckenfluter not even in the approach. Both the reading lamp, and the uplight consume so only fabled 6Watt !!
- Cleaning: After the little tinkering situation is at least 4m² large area like ... eh ... how you really should not look. Lots of thin plastic film, paper scraps, scraps of tape and last but not least dozens of small polystyrene balls which stick to carpet, furniture, clothes, hands and face. Time at least 20 minutes (there are actually several grades of polystyrene?).
- Conclusion: Nice design, stable state, good functionality, only the glass screen of the reading lamp is annoying and restricts their function. But for ungfeähr sixty-three continental European standard currency always recommended.
A note at the end: In my opinion, only dimmable filaments have always appropriate mix of color temperature and brightness, unlike energy-saving lamps, whether dimmable or not.
