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

The Halogen Mitt is the only Downlight cover & Lamp Combo product available which fixes downlight.

Installation

The Halogen Mitt makes a downlight fitting, efficient and safe.  It can be installed without an Electricians Licence and it can be installed from Beneath the ceiling.

The Halogen Mitt Energy Saver can effectively wipe out the need to use CFL downlight fittings. Our 20W lamp provides brighter light output than a CFL, while consuming only 20W of energy, and effectively fixing the major problems with recessed lighting.

How Efficiency Matrix Fix's Downlights

Common Downlight Inefficiency causes

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 your recessed downlight fitting, to ignite into a flame.  Should insulation or debris get too close to a standard halogen Lamp(300˚ + Celcius), a fire could propagate very easily.

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 35W Efficiency Matrix Energy saver lamp 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

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

• Eligible for Insulation Rebate and Green loans!
  
• Assists in Improving the Australian Energy Star rating of your home.
• Passes certification for AS/NZS 60598.1, AS/NZS 60598.2.2 & AS/NZS:3000.2007
• Up to 2 hour fire rating. (CSIRO Certified)  (Fully intumescant materials, which expand in a fire to restrict the fires passage)
• 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
• An insulating material with a thermal R-value of 0.5 which significantly reduces heat transfer from both directions
• Blocks draught.
• The Halogen Mitt includes a specialized 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.

• The new Basic Mitt, is a Ventilated downlight cover, which can be used for fixed head and gimble downlight fittings, and will be very affordable for the do it yourself(diy) installation.
• The new Loft Mitt, is a large downlight cover, primarily designed for insulation installers to be installed from above.

Downlight Mitt products, help protect against fire and provide insulation above recessed light fittings!

Keep watching this space for further developments.

The Halogen Mitt completely 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 in your home.  There is no need to settle for less, demand the best!

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 covers.

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 includes an LED Lamp 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.  Enjoy our NEW Demonstrations Videos now available online!

Enjoy Additional Video’s in Demonstration Video’s

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.  Buy battery charger NOW!

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.