Solar Tube Skylights
By using skylights anyone can add a great and natural look to their rooms or any other living place. Solar tube skylights not only use sunlight to bring comfort, but they also cut electricity costs and improve the mood of the people living under that roof. This is a fact, not mere speculation. It’s been proven that using natural sunlight will make your room look more spacious and lively.
Now, let’s compare regular skylights with solar tube skylights. Regular skylights are difficult to set up in most houses as they weren’t built with the idea of using skylights on them. Besides, skylights require the sun to be at the correct position and the sky to be totally free from clouds, so unless those conditions are met, by using standard skylights we cannot illuminate a room constantly and in such a way that makes their cost practical.
On the other hand by using an advance form of skylights, which is solar tube skylights we can bypass these problems. Solar tube skylights are built with more modern technology which takes skylights one step beyond by refracting and absorbing sunlight into a little cylindrical tube by means of lenses and mirrors.
Solar tube skylights are efficient because they use ray bending technology. In addition, they also have LITD (Light Intercepting Transfer Device). These two technologies let solar tube skylights make use of sunlight even when it isn’t in a straight path in relation to the tube. The result is the redirecting of light again and again inside solar tube skylights which provide the best possible light in rooms without windows, from dawn to dusk.
There are three sizes of solar tube skylights, small (10"), medium (14"), and full size (21"). Using a solar tube skylight just needs a little opening in your roof and it will pour plenty of sunlight into your space. Solar tube skylights can also have a few more features like a daylight dimmer or a ventilation kit for places like the wash room.
Solar tube skylights transfer the entire amount of light which enters all the way through the collector, but they also respect the sunlight’s ability to reflect colors as they are. Using solar tube skylights in a room in which has always been lit by electric light will give shocking results. Another great feature of solar tube skylights is that they carry a filter to moderate and soften the light, but again, this filter doesn’t change the color of the light. This allows you to really see the true colors of your objects, which might not be the case with artificial light.