Ceiling Fixtures
This type of lighting is installed in cutouts in the ceiling.
What is recessed lighting?
These fixtures are usually mounted above a mirror.
What are vanity strip lights?
These lights plug into a wall and can be easily removed.
What are lamps?
These are used on design plans to represent lighting fixtures.
What are electrical symbols?
I am a dome-shaped fixture attached to the ceiling.
What is flush mount lighting?
This dome-shaped fixture attaches directly to the ceiling.
What is flush mount lighting?
This ornamental wall fixture can hold one or multiple lamps.
What is a sconce?
This type of lighting is installed underneath cabinets.
What is under-cabinet lighting?
Most ceiling-mounted lights use the same electrical symbol because they are attached this way.
In a similar fashion to the ceiling.
I hang from a cord or chain and hold one lightbulb.
What is a pendant light?
This hanging fixture is mounted by a cord, cable, chain, or rod and holds one bulb.
What is a pendant light?
These lights are commonly used near a mirror and are mounted on a wall.
What are vanity strip lights?
Under-cabinet lighting may be powered this way if it is not hardwired.
What is battery power?
This is what a builder or electrician primarily needs to know from a ceiling light symbol.
Where to run the wires.
I have multiple heads mounted on tracks or raceways.
What is track lighting?
This fixture branches out to hold more than one lightbulb.
What is a chandelier?
What general mounting category includes vanity strip lights and sconces?
What is wall-mounted lighting?
These lights add aesthetics and character to a space and can be easily moved.
What are lamps?
These design documents identify the specific type of light fixture to be installed.
The specification list and design schematic boards.
I branch out to hold multiple bulbs, unlike a single-bulb pendant.
What is a chandelier?
This ceiling light is also called a downlight, can light, canister lighter, or pot light.
What is recessed lighting?
Why can different wall-mounted fixtures share a general electrical symbol?
Because the symbol communicates where wiring is needed, while the specific fixture type is shown elsewhere in the design documents.
Name the two installation methods for under-cabinet lighting described in the notes.
Hardwired into the home's electrical system or attached with adhesive and powered by batteries.
True or false: An electrical symbol for a ceiling light must show the exact decorative style of the fixture.
False
I can be covered with screens or louvers to help shield harsh light and eliminate glare.
What is recessed lighting?