After selecting a luminaire in a luminaire PlugIn, some of them offer the possibility to start an installed lamp PlugIn to find a lamp that fits into the luminaire. The lamp PlugIn provides all the technical and marketing data needed including photometric files and maintenance factors. If a luminaire PlugIn is not yet prepared, to start a lamp PlugIn, the lamp selection can be started within DIALux instead.
In the Property Page “Technical data” of the luminaire, there is a button with three dots besides the lamp type drop down list. Clicking on this button you gets a selection of all installed lamp PlugIns. One has to be selected to find the correct equipment according to the requirements of the lighting layout and the fittings.
Fig. 42 Starting a lamp PlugIn in DIALux
If there is not yet a lamp PlugIn installed on this computer, you are able to try out the DIALux Lamp PlugIn. If the luminaire manufacturer has entered technical data, it will be used to pre select those lamps that fits into the luminaire. The search criteria can be: ILCOS-L code, power consumption, socket, voltage, etc. The lamp PlugIn then offers those products that fit into the luminaire. You can choose those lamps that are most suitable for the lighting layout. This choice could be a standard lamp or picking from special colours, colour rendering index, long maintenance lamps or other specific properties of the lamp. The lamps include all technical data, even light distribution curves for reflector lamps, so you can decide whether to use a spot or a flood reflector. If the “change” of the light distribution curve is not possible, the luminaire can restrict the replacement of the original LDC.
Fig. 43 DIALux lamp demo database
The user can insert one or more lamps to the luminaire. So it is possible to mix up spot and flood reflectors in a line of spotlights or it is possible to mix the light colours within the some arrangement. The selected lamp can be added to the original equipment or it can replace it.
