4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Well worth the ORIGINAL asking price,
June 8, 2011 Zeek the Geek "ZtG" (LA, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 14-Inch, 30-Watt Incandescent Slimline Picture Light (Misc.)
Note: seller has more than doubled the price of this item since the below review.
We needed some way to illuminate a new 24"W x 30"H (not incld. frame) painting. But after failing to find anything locally, even from picture framing stores, we started looking on the web. We found a pretty good range of products from $15 to over $100. A light's performance can only be tested in place, so we started buying at the very low end. This particular product is better than expected for the price; moderate construction quality, bubble-packaging.
The two lamps are elongated, but the interior filament is not, so the light emanates from just a hot spot in the tube. Even so, light output is pretty uniform horizontally. There is no light-slit control to adjust the light uniformity vertically, so you take what you can get by rotating the tube toward or away from the wall. I suspect that this is a problem with all the picture lights we saw on-line. In our case it makes the...Read more
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