Guide
LED Linear Light Inquiry Guide
Linear light in this range is specified by inquiry, so the inquiry itself has to do the work a specification table would normally do. These are the questions that make a linear quotation exact.
The questions that settle a linear specification
The linear range is a category — Wall Washer / Strip Flood Light / Line Light — plus two linear products by name. A name establishes that linear formats are sold; it does not establish lengths, wattages or a protection grade for a linear model, so do not let a quotation rest on a name alone. The questions below convert a linear brief into a configuration that can be confirmed in writing.
The questions
- Total run and segment lengths. Overall metres, and how the run breaks into sections at corners, columns and joints.
- Colour. Static white (which colour temperature?) or RGB colour, matching the colour systems used in the range.
- Control. On-off for a static run, or DMX512 if the run joins a colour programme with other fittings.
- Mounting surface and position. Recessed in a channel, surface-mounted at a wall base, or free-standing; indoors, outdoors or in a water feature's splash zone.
- Protection need. The water and dust exposure of the position, so the protection grade of the proposed model can be confirmed against it.
- Effect. A grazing wash up a wall, a line of light in paving, or a cove glow — the effect decides beam and spacing.
The specified neighbour
Where the answers match a specified model, the quotation can anchor to it: the LX-XT-001 is a linear-format washer with lengths of 600mm-1000mm and custom lengths available on request. The category framing is on the linear lights page, and the inquiry can be sent from the inquiry checklist page.
Confirm before ordering
For any linear configuration, hold the model's specification and its protection grade in the written quotation before ordering.
A model linear brief, annotated
Run: a hotel facade base, one straight elevation, to be read as a continuous line of warm light at the wall foot. Segments: the elevation divides at two pilasters into three runs; state the three lengths and ask whether the segments meet at the pilasters or stop short of them — the answer changes the section count. Colour: static warm white to match the building's other exterior lighting; no colour programme now or planned, which keeps the control at on-off and the cost honest. Mounting: surface at the wall base, outdoors, rain-washed but never submerged; the protection confirmation should be sought against exactly that exposure. Effect: a graze that shows the stone texture, not a flat wash — which points the conversation toward the washer family's optics as the reference. Every sentence of that brief answers one of the questions above; a brief that does so can be quoted exactly, and one that does not will be quoted approximately, at the buyer's risk.
The answer you should expect back
A serious reply to a linear brief names a model or a construction, gives its length logic (fixed sections, cuttable, or custom as the washer family offers), states its colour and control in the brief's own terms, and confirms a protection grade against the brief's named exposure. It also says what the run needs at its ends — end caps, feeds, joints — because linear schemes fail at their terminations more often than in their middles. Compare replies on those points before comparing prices; the cheapest linear run is the one that is specified once.