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Home Theater Lighting Tips
There are a multitude of various lighting options possible to produce the best ambience while designing your home theater entertainment system.When deciding upon your lighting system for your home theater room you must contemplate the total space dedicated for the set up of your home theater system.There is a vast variety of lights available from disco style lights to lights whose luminosity is remotely controlled. Home theater lighting can be costly but are essential to create the perfect home theater cinema mood. A qualified electrician should always install all home theater lighting systems.
There are wall sconces available which of varying shapes and sizes. These also come in one bulb or multiple bulb options. They can be customized well with movie themed images such as popcorn or a movie projector. You may also select a galaxy dome for the ceiling to produce the starry night mood. There is a cheaper option available for this too, its a fiber optic star kit. This package contains 120 LED to produce the best starry evening effect. It has an easy installation procedure also.
Also you can consider installing star tiles. These are unique tiles and can produce an excellant night sky ambience. These tiles have lights have in them LED illuminator inside and also the stationary LED lights create a much better and non-distracting night sky effect, to set the perfect mood.
Furthermore your wall sconce can be utilized to produce a spotlight effect to highlight a movie scence poster you may have hung on your walls. A lot depends on the type of sconce you choose. They come in various shapes and sizes. Most commonly available sconces come in square, circular, cone and half moon. Also popular are teardrop shaped sconces and angled sconces. Wall sconces can come in anything between $150 to $300. Ceramic sconces are also available which can be painted to match the color of your walls.
The doom lighting used for the ceiling also comes in combination with your wall sconce. These ceiling lights are made of white bisque and the color can be changed with paint.
You can also add some personal touch to your lighting like having projector lamps in shape of film camera etc.
With all that said, it is very important to take note of your budget and the look and feel you want to go for. With right selection a dull room can be converter into a great movie place. Guide to setting up the perfect lighting for your home theater.
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BMW E46 Angel Eye Help!!?
I have a 2003 BMW E46 325i 4dr Sedan w/Xenon projectors and just purchased the CCFL Angel Eye kit. The problem is that the instructions don't mention how to actually wire the angel eyes to the DTRL's (Daytime Running Lights) while in the headlight doing the install. I want them to be wired with the "All the time" method which basically means..well, I want them to be on all the time (or at least when the car's running). Can someone explain me how to do this or refer me to a great DIY w/pictures? The inverters just have a simple ground and 12V wire so I assume it's very simple but don't want to blow anything or don't want to harm myself or my vehicle. Anything would be great help! Thanks,
PS-I know the most common DIY guide is the one found on www.FastM.net and though this is a great write-up, it uses the Umnitza Angels that come w/an additional harness and goes into detail regarding that kit which doesn't really help me for mine so please don't refer me to that website! Thanks ;o)
Your car's factory DRLs are the two inner headlights. These are also the flash to pass, but we hardly ever use that option in the USA. So you would need to wire to those lights, possibly disconnecting those lights in the process.
If your car does not use these lights for DRL right now, then you would have to go to the dealer and have that option turned on in the computer. Only they can turn that option on, then the wire would be hot when the car is running. But you may lose the flash to pass capability, that I'm not sure of.
CCFL stands for Cold Cathode Florescent Light, but you don't mention what brand you got, only what brand you didn't get, so I can't offer any specific advice about your kit. However, I did find this write up that talks about hooking it to a specific wire color to get the effect you want. I think.
