Modern Track Lighting

Modern track lighting provides unyielding creativity in the placement of lights and illuminating an area, including pointing light fixtures in different directions and varying the luminance from subtle to dramatic. This allows you to create focal points in a room and develop a sophisticated ambiance. They are extremely adaptable and versatile as you can vary the lamps along the track or even change them for a new look or seasonality. You can change the colors or textures to match the seasons (and your wardrobe), for instance during the winter months, you may choose the darker colors and during the summer months, brighter colors may be more suitable.

Modern track lighting comes in two styles, a rigid track and monorail. A monorail track gives greater flexibility in the drop of the light fixture from the ceiling and its form. Though, standard track lighting is useful for running lights vertically along walls. Tracks are ideally made to have numerous lamp heads. Track Lights are typically used in modern décor because most have an apparent modern structure and technology.

Flexible Track Lighting

The electrical wiring of most modern track lighting is hidden inside a plastic or metal track. Some tracks, such as the T-Trak Straight Track by Tech Lighting, Enzis 3 Light Monorail Track, and Enzis 5 Light Monorail Track by Bruck, are very flexible as they are hand malleable giving you unlimited creativity in creating a form for the hanging lamps. This makes it very useful for problematic areas where traditional lighting is not up to par. Sometimes essential for industrial applications where unique forms are necessary for custom built designs and layouts or changed to accommodate different displays. Because of its very nature it is commonly used to isolate work and social areas or bring focus to fine art or other design elements. Modern track lights are unobtrusive and pleasant as compared to traditional spotlights.

Track Lighting Systems

Track lighting systems are wired directly to a line voltage of 120 volts, common in standard homes, or a low-voltage transformer to step down the 120 volts to 12 volts. Low voltage track fixtures are energy efficient as they use less power than the line voltage counterparts. It is a very important point to consider when choosing between modern track lighting systems as placing a low voltage bulb in a fixture that is wired to a standard line voltage is a dangerous hazard. The good news is modern track lighting is easy to install.

Monorail Lighting Fixtures

Monorail offers elegant styling and more flexibility than standard track lights. Monorail lighting fixtures are attached to a thin track that hangs from the ceiling. It is also known as flexible, flex or curved lighting because the contour of the track can be customized in any direction on the horizontal plane. They can follow the shape of a curved wall or the bench top of a kitchen. Standard track fixtures are attached to a track that is directly fixed to a ceiling. Modern monorail track lighting combines the best of track and cable lighting. Monorail track lighting also features a full array of hanging lamp styles including pendant lights, architectural and innovative shapes made by top designer brands. Light fixtures are available with decorative and colorful glass artistry or contemporary metal finishes such as chrome, bronze, or brushed nickel. Monorail lights are the necklaces of a modern ceiling. They boast attractive glass and metallic designer lamp shades in a very wide spectrum of colors, textures and simplistic but innovative shapes, including architectural, neo-modern, ultra-modern, soft contemporary and more. Some monorail lighting fixtures have cleverly included organic resemblances. All exude distinctive styling and unparalleled simplistic beauty.