Thursday, December 13, 2007

EGO, the light for Museum Conservation and Condition Reporting



My 200 Watt SCANDLES has done very well with museum and private conservators or art and artifacts due to high color daylight lamps that lack UV and IR (heat). Scandles has become a examination standard for condition reporting at world museums - Guggenheim New York needs the same lighting standard as the Guggenheim Venice as Bilboa.

But Scandles, at $1500 per fixure, it's a bit pricey and specialized. The EGO's first conservation client was the New York Public Library, so that each conservator could have their own high color, but low cost, tasklight. No heat (IR) and no UV (ultraviolet) - harm is minimized to the art, book or artifact you are repairing, recording or analyzing. Self standing or atop a tripod, cost is still below $200.

Ingredients needed:
1 Lowel EGO with 5500K high color lamps, 120Vac USA, Japan (240Vac version available)
Option - 1 adjustable table top tripod

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