SOLAR TUBE
SKYLIGHT
By using skylights anyone can add a great and natural look to
their rooms or any other living place. Solar tube skylights not only use sunlight to bring comfort, but they
also cut electricity costs and improve the mood of the people living under that roof. This is a fact, not
mere speculation. It’s been proven that using natural sunlight will make your room look more spacious and
lively.
Now, let’s compare regular skylights with solar tube skylights.
Regular skylights are difficult to set up in most houses as they weren’t built with the idea of using
skylights on them.
Besides, skylights require the sun to be at the correct position
and the sky to be totally free from clouds, so unless those conditions are met, by using standard skylights
we cannot illuminate a room constantly and in such a way that makes their cost practical.
On the other hand by using an advance form of skylights, which is
solar tube skylights we can bypass these problems.
Solar tube skylights are built with more modern technology which
takes skylights one step beyond by refracting and absorbing sunlight into a little cylindrical tube by means
of lenses and mirrors.
Solar tube skylights are efficient because
they use ray bending technology. In addition, they also have LITD (Light Intercepting Transfer
Device).
These two technologies let solar tube skylights make use of
sunlight even when it isn’t in a straight path in relation to the tube. The result is the redirecting of
light again and again inside solar tube skylights which provide the best possible light in rooms without
windows, from dawn to dusk.
There are three sizes of solar tube skylights, small (10"),
medium (14"), and full size (21"). Using a solar tube skylight just needs a little opening in your roof and
it will pour plenty of sunlight into your space. Solar tube skylights can also have a few more features like
a daylight dimmer or a ventilation kit for places like the wash room.
Solar tube skylights transfer the entire amount of light which
enters all the way through the collector, but they also respect the sunlight’s ability to reflect colors as
they are.
Using solar tube skylights in a room in which has always been lit
by electric light will give shocking results. Another great feature of solar tube skylights is that they
carry a filter to moderate and soften the light, but again, this filter doesn’t change the color of the
light. This allows you to really see the true colors of your objects, which might not be the case with
artificial light.
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