What is a downlight and a spotlight? What's the difference between a downlight and a spotlight?

As an important part of indoor soft decoration, lighting design has attracted more and more attention. Especially with the popularity of main lamp design, people are more and more inclined to choose various auxiliary lamps to create a lighting atmosphere. There are many kinds of auxiliary lights, the common ones are spotlights and downlights. Today, Bian Xiao will talk about the difference between spotlight and downlight.

Downlight and spotlight are commonly used auxiliary lights at home, but many people often don't understand them. Let's have a look!

1. What is a downlight?

Downlight, as its name implies, is a kind of lamp embedded in the ceiling and emitting light downwards. It has a remarkable feature that it can keep the appearance uniformity of architectural decoration well, and will not destroy the original structure and appearance of the ceiling because of the installation of downlights. Downlight takes up a small space, and the light source can well increase the soft atmosphere of the space, and has strong ability to create an atmosphere, so it is often used in combination with the ceiling.

Second, what is a spotlight?

Spotlight is a kind of lamp that can be installed around the ceiling, furniture, walls, skirting lines, etc. The main function of spotlights is to highlight beauty, enhance layering, and also play a very good role in promoting atmosphere creation. If it is a good combination of spotlights, it can play a major role in lighting and can also be used as a supplement to local light sources.

3. What's the difference between spotlight and downlight?

1. From the light source, ordinary incandescent lamps are yellow, and energy-saving lamps are white or yellow. The light source of downlight is not adjustable. Domestic spotlights use quartz bulbs or beads, and the light source direction of spotlights can be adjusted freely.

2. From the application position, the position of the downlight is relatively fixed, generally in the ceiling, which requires a ceiling with a depth of 150 mm ... Of course, the downlight is also external. But relatively speaking, the installation position of spotlights is more flexible.

3. Spotlight is mainly divided into point hanging type, track type and embedded type. Embedded spotlights can be installed in the ceiling. The performance tension of spotlights is better than that of downlights, the halo effect is more obvious and direct, and the decorative effect is very prominent.

All the above questions are about "what is a downlight, and what is the difference between a spotlight and a downlight".