today we're looking at the Prism Pro downlight range from Ansell Lighting
so then Gordon where would you like to start start with a bit that you get really excited about Gary
how easy is the product to install well the full range have the same size hole in the ceiling so
you cut yourself a 73mm hole it means that the customer has the ability to change their
mind throughout the range before the end of the second fix without the need for the electrician
to do anything with the hole that they cut in the first place okay well no
not that i could believe a customer would ever change their minds but if i did want this
gimbal version yeah and you'd installed a fixed version i wouldn't have to necessarily start
patching up the ceiling or cutting out additional bits of the ceiling to fit the product so that's
good i like that and it doesn't stop there the connections themselves are really easy as well
strip back your cable and just simply push your conductors into the appropriate color
coded connections and you know some words there as well yeah lenel yes who i thought
was a was that was a friend of yours but yeah you don't have many friends just colleagues and
acquaintances so push it back and put the cord grip on you've got on some of the drivers the
ability to change the color temperature but on all of them the light fitting itself is disconnected
so it means that we can just push this back into the ceiling when we're finished with it
and allow the decorating team to come along and obviously paint that ceiling so the ceiling can
be painted before we come along and we connect in our actual light fitting itself so simply put the
two connectors together and as always we're just going to poke that through the ceiling
put our levers in the air pop it into position but again it doesn't stop there we have the ability to
remove the bezel so meaning that painting can still happen or decorating in the future or
you could change the color of that bezel for any of the ones in the range we've got black
we've got chrome we've got satin chrome and it comes with a standard white bezel gordon
that's good well yeah that is really easy to fit yeah i like that so yeah again lots of flexibility
but this is a fire rated range it is so let's deal with that issue of fire rating because things have
changed recently to match what happens with the building so a lot of people are using
engineered timber solutions such as this i-joist and Ansell are keeping up to date with that need
to certify for each and every type of engineered timber solution which is quite onerous but there
have that check out the website to see which systems are approved so far and obviously that
keeps getting updated as the range and the where ceilings are built changes and also they've got a
very slim profile so we had a little look at that as well so got a very slim profile so the amount
poking through because that driver is remote and this one here you're quite fond of gordon as well
yeah so we'll look at the anti-glare one because that's that's quite a unique part of this range
okay so that takes me up to what the electrician's looking at but you like other things don't you
well i get excited about lighting and obviously that's it's a lighting product and that's really
what the customer cares about so let's start with uh it's a dimmable range okay now we have a whole
range of dimmers here at efix and we tested this product out on them and we were able to get nice
smooth dimming to a lower level without any flicker right you can see that there that's
very good switch it off switch it back on again importantly it actually comes back on at the
lower level without flicker which is something you often don't see with this kind of product
okay that's really good now the one you just saw on that image there is a little bit special
because that's termed an anti-glare down light right so in that case the light source itself
is recessed further back from the ceiling so this range of 60 degrees that narrows it slightly back
down to 50 degrees because that light source is further back but what it does it's you know if
you if you speak to lighting designers they like to hide the light source so you see the effect
right but not the light itself and that's what you get with an anti-glare down light
so where would i use this type of light fitting then so i'd be thinking areas such as perhaps
you've got a cinema room or a multi-use room so where you've got a TV in there possibly above
dining tables where you might be spotlighting the table itself but it just you can see in that image
there where you just don't get that glare it's a very subtle light and i think that makes a massive
difference to a lighting installation it does yeah that looked wonderful that did as it was
dimming down alongside that so you saw that in warm white so this range is available as fixed
color temperature ones but also selectable color temperatures right okay and that's on the driver
is it yeah it is on the drive on one of them so you saw that in the uh when you did that there you
saw this have a little closer look if i can you've got this little uh this little uh switch you set
on the side right so i can obviously then again this starts at 2700K which not a lot of products
do so again that's just that the level of warm whiteness and it can go all the way up to 6000K
so you set that uninstall on that version however there's also as everyone likes an app these days
there's an app enabled version as well where you can tune the color temperature
using the app right so you sit down on your phone playing with your lights is what you're telling
me yeah or link it up to other smart devices you know there's a lot of obviously these uh
talking assistants that we like to shout out at the minute we won't mention the name because that
causes us no end of comments so you got that you got the app on your phone yes it's hold on
yeah so if you if you bring that in here so this is the Prism Pro app so there's Wiz app
pairs using wi-fi and Bluetooth hybrid technology so you don't need a hub so this was pretty easy
and intuitive to add so i'm going to switch the fitting on so you can see that i've brought it on
at that lower level so i can i can dim the fitting up and down again nice smooth dimming on there
yeah and i can also change the color temperature wow yeah that's a little bit a lot wider you can
go back to that yellowy sort of color that warmer color that i like yeah that's the one so you can
set the mood of the room then from your phone yeah so obviously we've just got one fitting here and
obviously one room but you know again that's that choice for the customer that more and more people
are getting smart and want to bring the lighting into the smart system so i think that's great you
know along with that recessed the gimbal all those other versions so let's look at a few other things
to think about when you're choosing a download this is a 60 000 hour product to L70 so that's 70%
of the original output at 60 000 so let's think of that in most installations that is
a very long time it comes with a five year warranty um IP ratings when you think about
IP65 for the majority of the range so it means it can go inside the zones within the bathroom
zones one zone two etcetera apart from one there Gordon yeah so this IP20 so you might
just yeah you can't use that one in the in those zones in the bathroom so if you fit the prism
range from Ansell yourselves please leave those comments below are you thinking about fitting
in the future we'd love to hear your comments and we'll try and get back to as many as we can