Types of Kitchen Track Lights
The lighting of the kitchen rails is no longer stagnant in the Middle Ages. The time was that if you wanted to install it in your kitchen, you would be relegated to the world of bulky rails and ugly lamps.
Imagine the type of lighting you would find in a Wendy's or McDonald's and you will understand.
But around 2000, lighting manufacturers began to step up their game. Sleek, curved tracks with high-intensity halogens hit the market that really did light up kitchen work areas.
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Track lighting is a specialized fixture or fixture system. The system mounts to the ceiling or wall and accepts and powers individual accessories or headers. Well yes, but what does that mean?
What are track lightings?
Railway lighting systems have two main parts. One is the rail, which is connected to power and holds the conductors to the heads.
It looks like, in cross-section, a "U" square or a square with the central part of one side missing. This is the part that mounts to the ceiling or wall, with the opening facing down or out.
The two conductors of the system for the supply, hot and neutral, are copper strips mounted on insulating material inside the track. One of these copper strips is located on each side.
Before looking at some representative products, let's go over some of the key points of track lighting for your kitchen:
Energy-saving: track lighting can save energy. What? You just need to install as many path lights as you need.
In addition, the tracks can be connected independently, so that one of them can be left off or dimmed, while the other takes over the lighting functions.
Choose kit or bundle: Unless you specify "kit" or "bundle" when looking for track lighting, you won't get all the components you need to install it.
Can be laid in drywall: tracks are typically not heavy enough to bolt to (wood) joists. They can be mounted on a hollow surface with Molly screws.
Keep an eye on your power consumption: You need to be mindful of your power consumption when adding lights to the rails. Tracks are not infinitely scalable.
Please read the product instructions carefully to see how many lights you can add.
Halogens: Calculate the cost of expensive halogen lamps in your purchase. They can often compete with the cost of the track lighting kit itself.
Basic track lighting
Before we start imagining, we need to cover your kitchen track lighting starter kit, and this Satco product is the best example.
It comes with three mounting heads, a four-foot rail, and all mounting hardware. Available colors: black, white or brushed nickel.
The important thing to note is that this is a square track lighting kit. There are "elbows" available that shoot more fringes in other directions, but only at 90-degree angles.
This is as basic and inexpensive as possible. Continue through the product tour for more sophisticated kitchen track lighting.
Flexible track lighting
Flexible kitchen track lighting can be curved in a number of ways to fit dark areas, or just because it looks great to have curved tracks. This is an increasingly popular style of track lighting.
This flexible track lighting kit comes with one 12 foot track and four 50 watt heads.
This is called line voltage rail lighting, which means that a separate transformer is not needed. Since there is no transformer, the base of the track lighting is smaller and more elegant.
Changing the lamps
The real fun of installing kitchen track lighting isn't so much the tracks, but the fixtures. After installing the strips, you can change the accessories as you like.
Do you want to go from contemporary to traditional? Witness this antique brass Murano glass light fixture from Hampton Bay (yes, the one from Hampton Bay, the one found in every Home Depot store and on Amazon) to see how you can adjust your track lighting on the kitchen for a more classic look.
You will likely want to pair this accessory with a compatible antique brass flex rail. We're not sure if you need it from a functional standpoint, but it's probably something you'd like in terms of aesthetics.
We hope you enjoy watching this video about how to install track lighting:
Source: This Old House
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