Lighting Options

The Sky Factory offers several lighting options for Luminous SkyCeilings, including a non-lighting option:

Sky Factory T5 fluorescent lighting is our standard lighting option. Our T5 fluorescent lighting troffers provide even illumination of the SkyTiles, are economical, energy-efficient, daylight balanced and the most ecological choice among available fluorescent tubes. Read more about T5 fluorescent lighting.

Sky Factory EcoSlim LED is a new edge-lit light guide system that provides perfectly even, high CRI, and daylight balanced illumination in a slim profile package. When assembled with the SkyTile and SkyTile Elevator, the EcoSlim LED unit has a total depth of less than 3 ½”. This solid state lighting option offers long life in excess of 40,000 hours, is virtually maintenance-free, energy-efficient, toxin free, and compatible with RF-free environments. Read more about EcoSlim LED lighting (PDF).

Sky Factory Programmable Luminous SkyCeilings™ display sophisticated patterns of changing light levels. They can also be configured to shift the color of the backlighting from warm to cool white, allowing for the simulation of morning, midday, and evening light, among other natural lighting simulations. The lighting changes are programmed into attached digitally addressable lighting interfaces (DALI) which are remotely user selectable. Read more about Programmable Luminous SkyCeilings.

Sky Factory Ambient SkyCeilings are simply opaque SkyTiles that can be dropped into any standard hung ceiling grid, just like acoustic tiles. Ambient SkyCeilings are not backlit, but are illuminated by the ambient room light, or by custom sconce or cove lighting. Ambient SkyCeilings feature the same extensive selection of images as Luminous SkyCeilings (see Image Catalog for complete selection) and provide a beautiful economical alternative. Read more about Ambient SkyCeilings.