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
Efficiency Matrix Downlight cover (Halogen Mitt) Features:
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.
At a time when downlight covers are headed to become mandatory in Australia, Efficiency Matrix provides Australians more reasons to move forward and install downlight covers.
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!
Images provided by Energy Imaging
The show ran us off our feet. People love their downlights, they just need a solution for them… Many people were not aware how badly downlights contributed to inefficiencies in home insulation. The Halogen Mitt is a premium product as a downlight cover for insulation installations. At the show, people finally found a downlight cover that worked.
