Enjoy The Halloween Scare-Fest with BLT Direct

There are just weeks to go until the annual season of trick-or-treating, pumpkin carving and an abundance of fake blood, and BLT Direct is gearing up for this year’s Halloween spectacular with a range of dramatic light bulbs to create spooky effects around the home or workplace. Whether hosting a party or simply looking for ways to make the event more exciting for trick-or-treaters, the carefully chosen selection of flickering candle bulbs and blacklights help to set the scene for the so-called witching hour, and help everyone truly get into the spirit of this lighthearted tradition.

Simply changing light bulbs is a great way to completely change the atmosphere of a room, and with LED GU10 Light Bulbs already being compatible with many of the existing fittings and fixtures around the home, switching them for coloured alternatives can help to create a truly eerie setting. Green and magenta clash perfectly and summon to mind images of zombies and ghost trains, while ultraviolet lights can use glow-in-the-dark capabilities to create spooky patterns on walls and ceilings. All of the coloured LED GU10 bulbs available from BLT Direct have a reputed lamp life of up to 50,000 hours, meaning that they will not only come in handy for this Halloween, but many ghostly celebrations for years to come.

Flicker Flame Incandescent Light Bulbs are particularly suited to creating atmospheric lighting, and the constant judder and shiver of these fake flames are sure to set anybody on edge this Halloween. These bulbs are available with a variety of different bases so no costly modifications need to be made to existing fittings to accommodate these spine-chilling lights bulbs, and they are particularly effective when the bulb is exposed. At just £3.36 per bulb, with an expected life span of up to 1,000 hours, they are a budget-friendly way to convert a standard room or corridor into a flickering passage of terror, and they will last for the entirety of the spooky season.

For those who want to get into the spirit of Halloween, but are concerned about the costly energy bills that they might be unpleasantly surprised with, there are energy-saving options that can turn any home or workplace into a veritable haunted house. The Energy-Saving Blacklights available from BLT Direct come in a variety of different wattages and are predicted to save consumers around £58.50 over the course of their life span. The special dark blue filter creates a truly macabre effect, and simply using one of these bulbs within a porch or hallway can give trick-or-treaters the sense that this house might be one to avoid in the future.

Low-Level Lighting For Beautifully Decorative Effect – BLT Direct

BLT Direct is a foremost provider of inexpensive and highly efficient lighting solutions to homes and businesses across the UK. But whilst the main function of light bulbs is undoubtedly illumination, there are many bulbs which are used for purely decorative purposes; the Timeless Elegance range at BLT Direct is testament to the way bulbs can create a charmingly atmospheric environment with ease. Technological advancements in previous years have even made these primarily decorative bulbs function as effectively as those which are used solely for their illuminative merits, so using them for feature lighting needn’t sacrifice on quality.

The incandescent light bulbs in the Timeless Elegance range are available in varying different shapes and sizes, from golfball lamps to candle-shaped bulbs. The unique advantage these bulbs have over many other decorative solutions is the smoked glass; the filament lamp produces a stunning, flickering effect that adds a sense of ambience and atmosphere that many plain bulbs cannot achieve. They are best used in environments where a full level of light is not necessary, such as perhaps in a wall lamp in a living room, for use during the evening when a bright light might be deemed harsh. They are wonderful for use in chandeliers, or light fittings that might feature more than one bulb, as grouping a number of these bulbs together will not create an overbearing light, but rather a soft and warm glow.

The bulbs are either 25-watt or 35-watt and their variations on the Edison Screw cap means that they are a great fit for any existing fittings around the home, or in a commercial environment. Businesses such as restaurants and hotels might find great use for these bulbs in creating an inviting setting for their customers and guests, while specific showrooms could also benefit from the attractive, flickering illumination which calls to mind real candles; a hard effect to achieve when using LED light bulbs or some of the newer energy-saving models. The bulbs themselves are fully dimmable, if the right dimmer switch is installed, and can be used to create even lower levels of feature lighting.

The active life span of these incandescent light bulbs is around 1,000 hours, and their colour temperature is rated ‘gold’. Each lamp shape gives a completely different effect, whether it’s the ‘globe’ shaped bulb, or the ‘twisted candle’ bulb. The bulbs are also available in a conventional GLS shape, for the fixtures or fitting which can’t quite accommodate a bulb in an unconventional shape. BLT Direct’s extensive collection of these decorative filament bulbs starts at just £4.50 per bulb.

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Intensity Measurement Tool Paves Way For More Commercial LEDs

The Missouri University of Science and Technology have recently developed a new piece of equipment which can quickly and easily measure the intensity of LED lights bulbs. The laser-guided instrument enables the intensity to be measured from a distance, which will be revolutionary for the introduction of LED bulbs into public places. In the UK, many councils have started to fit the light-emitting diodes into street lights, with Bath and North East Somerset Council pioneering the scheme in 2011, and the brightness of LEDs has already seen them implemented into traffic light and pelican crossing systems. This new technology will encourage councils and authorities to fit the energy-saving bulbs across many cities and motorways, as it will be easier for maintenance workers to detect when a bulb needs replacing.

LED light bulbs are one of the most popular energy-saving lighting methods around today. They consume a vastly smaller amount of electricity to produce a higher level of light than the traditional halogen bulbs that the public have become most accustomed to. They are available in an extensive range of colour temperatures, wattages, shapes and sizes, and it is widely said that there is an LED bulb for almost any purpose, be it commercial or domestic.

Unlike traditional halogen bulbs, which give no indication that they are about to stop working, LED bulbs slowly dim over the course of their (considerably longer) life span. This means that the process of replacing roadside, streetside, traffic light bulbs or any other form or commercial lighting will be much easier and cheaper than simply sending out a maintenance truck to replace a single bulb. Technicians will no longer have to use a cherry picker truck to carry out the sometimes dangerous checks, diversions will no longer need to be set up to avoid motorists from injuring a maintenance worker, and councils will be able to develop a scheduled replacement system based on data taken from the new intensity measuring equipment. 

Dr Suzanna Long, of Missouri University of Science and Technology, said: “In many of the nation's traffic lights, light-emitting diodes or LEDs with their brighter light and longer life have replaced standard bulbs. But knowing when to replace the signal heads has remained a guessing game," Dr. Long added. She hopes that the new system will be wheeled out across Missouri first, before governments and authorities across the world begin to examine the advantages of the equipment.

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