Demand a downlight cover to FIX Safety issues and save on Heating, Cooling and Lighting costs every year!

An Aussie home with 40 downlights, installed with Halogen Mitt’s, could save you up to 1848kW/h of energy a year, via Heating and Cooling alone!  Click here for the Report

Featured at the Going Green Expo!

Downlight Cover Features include:

• Installable without an Electricians Licence.
• Includes Transformer Holder.
• Downlight covers can be Installed from beneath or above the ceiling.
• Our 35W SilverBack lamp provides equal brightness to a 50W Dichroic Halogen Lamp, but radiates most of its heat downwards and wastes no light upwards.
• Our 20W SilverBack globe can effectively compete  against Compact Fluoro Downlights by producing brighter light output than most CFL globes, while consuming only 20W of energy.  With the Downlight Mitt this retrofit effectively fixes the major problems associated with recessed lighting by enabling a downlight cover with an R-value and fire Rating which completely covers the back of the fitting to protect against insulation fire.

For an idea on how our product differs from others, enjoy our mini presentation.

How Efficiency Matrix Fix's Downlights

The 35W Efficiency Matrix Energy saver downlight produces superior spread of light with much less heat radiating and zero light output from the back of the Lamp.

Lux output readings were completed by EcoMad. Raw data available

1. Save on lower Wattage Lamps
2. Downlight cover includes an R-Value for insulation.
   
3. Insulation installed all around the cover, (no clearances)
4. Protect LED Lamps from extreme heat in your roof when Summer hits.
5. Makes any fitting into a Fire rated downlight
   

Efficiency Matrix Halogen Mitt Features:

Downlight Mitt Thermal Image, running with the Efficiency Matrix 35W Halogen Lamp

• The Ultimate Energy Efficiency Downlight cover product for Energy Star Ratings!

• Includes Transformer holder.
  
• Tested with insulation completely submerging the Mitt and passes certification for AS/NZS 60598.1, AS/NZS 60598.2.2 & AS/NZS:3000.2007 (Zero Clearances)
  
• Up to 2 hour fire rated. (CSIRO Certified)  (Fully intumescant materials, which expand in a fire to restrict the fires passage)
• Downlight guard, Insulation can be installed directly up to Downlight Cover/Mitt (Zero clearances) Refer to AS/NZS 60598 Certification
  
• Fixing mount supports Iron core and electronic transformers (Supplied with Product)
• Installable from above and below ceiling over downlights
  
• An insulating material with a thermal R-value of 0.5 which significantly reduces heat transfer from both directions
• Blocks draught from downlights.
• Reduces Noise Penetration.
  
• The Halogen Mitt includes a specialized energy saving Lamp which directs heat downwards with no loss of light output.
• The LED Mitt includes an LED Lamp which produces great light output with only 5W of energy consumption. Makes your existing fittings into energy saving downlights.
  

Here is a brief explanation on how downlights make your ceiling into Swiss CHEESE, while also exposing your insulation to risk of fire.

CHEESE

Convection Currents

When your lights are turned on, heat from your halogen lamp encourages air from your living area to shoot up into your roof area.

Heated Air pressure

During cold days, opening around your downlights and gaps in your insulation enable hot air to freely pass into your roof space from your living area.  Hot air wants to go up.

Expansion of Heated Air

During hot days, the sun creates extremely hot air in your roof area(70˚+ C), this air expands and pushes down into your living area through ventilated downlight fittings.  This effect is especially undesirable when you have LED recessed light fittings installed.  LED lamps can be damaged by operating in temperatures of 70˚ Celcius.

Excessive Air Drop

During cold nights, downlight fittings enable cold air to freely drop into your house avoiding the R-value from insulation completely.  Our house gets cooler quicker, with ventilated downlight fittings.

Spread of Draughts

During windy days, your roof can become quite windy, these draughts freely move into your living area with ventilated downlight fittings.

Exposure to Fire damage

Anything can get stuck in recessed lighting, to ignite into a flame, should insulation or debris get too close to a standard halogen dichroic Lamp(300˚ + Celcius).

The root cause of these inefficiencies is the way standard dichroic lamps operate.

• They produce light downwards and
• they try to force the majority of their heat and a good portion of the light backwards up into the roof.

“So effectively they create connectivity of your living area to your roof area.”

• The new Basic Mitt, is a Ventilated diy downlight cover, which can be used primarily for fixed head fittings, and will be very affordable for the do it yourself installation, and can be used with standard dichroic halogen lamps.
• The new Loft Mitt, is a large insulation downlight cover, primarily designed for insulation installers to be installed from above and Large CFL/Incandescent downlights.

These are both quality downlight covers that help protect against downlight fire and provide insulation above recessed lighting!

Keep watching this space for further developments.

In this thermal imaging the Halogen Mitt is the cone shaped product.  It completely stops the convection current effect and separates your roof from your living area with an R-value, unlike plastic downlight covers, which only stops draughts.

The R-Value consistency of your insulation in your roof is equally as important as reducing the draught effect and convection current effect in your home.  There is no need to settle for just a fire retardant product, demand the best, demand downlight insulation which also has a fire rating!

View our full report!!

Images provided by Energy Imaging

The Halogen Mitt and LED Mitt have now passed Australian Standards! (AS/NZS 60598.1 and AS/NZS 60598.2.2)

The Halogen Mitt and LED Mitt is a patented Australian Innovation.

Downlights are the most inefficient lights you can put in your house.  In summer they make your living area warmer, and in winter they make your living area cooler.  Open air connectivity between your living area and the roof is a big “NO! NO!”.  These two areas should be separated as much as possible, because the roof is there to protect you from the elements, not to join you to the elements.

This is the under lying problem with downlights and we have focused on resolving these issues head on in our downlight cover.

The Halogen Mitt and the LED Mitt;

• Passes certification for AS/NZS 60598.1 and AS/NZS 60598.2.2 (AS/NZS 3000;2007)
  
• Up to 2 hour fire rating  (CSIRO tested)
  
• Mounting support for Iron core and electronic transformers
• Installable from above and below ceiling
• An insulating material with R-value of 0.5 which significantly reduces heat loss.
• Blocks draught spreading from the most windy parts of the house(the roof).
• The Halogen Mitt includes a specialized Lamp which directs heat downwards and provides the same light output as a standard halogen dichroic 50W lamp but only consumes 35W.
• The LED Mitt is an LED downlight which produces great light output compared to a 20W halogen Lamp with only 5W of energy consumption.

“Your light fitting is either in the living area or in your roof, there can be no in between.  The Halogen Mitt Downlight cover finally resolves the ugly inefficiencies of downlights, cost effectively.”

Exciting new green product launch by Efficiency Matrix to resolve downlight fires in your home.

The Downlight Mitt will be in centre stage for halogen downlights.  Enjoy our NEW Demonstrations Videos now available online!

The Non-Rechargeable Battery Charger from Efficiency Matrix has just landed in Australia and is ready to not only conserve the environment but also save you some money.

The Efficiency Matrix Non-Rechargeable Battery Charger is specifically designed to recharge non-rechargable Alkaline batteries, in 4 hours.

Utilizing a patented Pulse charge, the efficiency of this technology is what really makes it special.  The batteries are always no more than luke warm as they are being charged, and you can squeeze out about 20 charges on an Alkaline battery before they will become faulty and end up in our land fills.  Rechargeable battery’s can also be charged with this device with out a problem.

This is an Australian Certified product, and its going to revolutionize the battery industry.

Available for purchase on ebay.

Yes it charges Alkalines!

I tried a pair of AAA Toshiba Alkalines and can report that the Non-Rechargeable Battery Charger topped them up without any explosions of any sort. Also charged a set of four 2400 NiMh.

I’m told that recommended retail will be around AU$50-$60 and that they will be on shelves in most good gadget stores by the end of July.

Save money and the environment with your very own Non-Rechargeable Battery Charger. Watch this space for more news.

Use the contact page to connect with the Efficiency Matrix sales team to secure your batch today.