Diffrient Task Light

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ERGO Info

Stand up while you're on the phone. Walk to your co-worker's desk instead of phoning or messaging. Do anything but sit all day.

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An effortlessly adjustable task light that supports the latest ballast-in-bulb technology, the Diffrient Task Light II maximizes the efficiency of compact fluorescent bulbs to provide long-lasting pure white illumination. The sleek, parabolic reflector shade minimizes glare and optimizes light distribution, while the highly engineered design provides effortless, balanced movement for easy positioning.

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Lighten Your Load

Lighten Your Load
Energy-efficient task lighting helps reduce energy use and costs.
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Designer


An industrial design legend, Niels Diffrient has been called “the granddaddy of the ergonomic revolution.”
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Responsible Design


Sustainability is the natural outcome of simple, elegant design.
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Features

  • User-friendly design promotes cost- and energy-savings
  • Developed by legendary industrial designer Niels Diffrient
  • 5 year, 24/7 warranty
  • Reinforced plastic reflector shade cuts glare and stays cool
  • Lower rear lip on shade to further reduce direct glare
  • Perfect internal counterbalance for one-touch positioning
  • Feather-light movement
  •  No friction knobs or rigid joints
  • 180º horizontal and 220º vertical shade adjustability and 360º
  • base rotation allow for infinite adjustability
  • Multiple mounting options, including desktop base, clamp, slatwall, direct wall, direct desk and panel mounting options
  • Available with single arm or double arm (up to 42” reach)

Specifications

  • 180º horizontal and 220º vertical shade adjustability and 360º base rotation allow for infinite adjustability
  •  Multiple mounting options, including desktop base, clamp, slatwall, direct wall, direct desk and panel mounting options
  •  Available with single arm or double arm (up to 42” reach)
  •  5-year, 24/7 warranty

Bulb

  •  Accepts 18-watt slim-line GU24 compact fluorescent bulbs
  •  Ships with energy-efficient CFL:
    •  18 watts (equivalent light output of 75 watt incandescent bulb)
    •  3500 K (neutral white color temperature)
    •  10,000-hour life
    •  End-of-life logic
    •  No lead glass
    •  Rapid start technology

 

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Sustainability

The Diffrient Task Light is a great example of Humanscale's environmental purpose.

  • Made predominantly of aluminum
  • Contains 90% recycled content (63% post-consumer, 27% pre-consumer)
  • 90% recyclable
  • Designed to accommodate the latest energy-efficient compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs

 

Earn LEED Credits

The Diffrient Task Light can help building projects achieve valuable LEED credits.

LEED FOR COMMERCIAL INTERIORS

Energy & Atmosphere

Credit 1.1
Optimize Energy Performance, Lighting Power

Materials & Resources

Credit 3.3
Resource Reuse, 30% Furniture & Furnishings

Credit 4.1
Recycled Content, 10%

Credit 4.2
Recycled Content, 20%

Indoor Environmental Quality

Credit 6.1
Controllability of Systems, Lighting

LEED FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION

Materials & Resources

Credit 3.1
Materials Reuse, 5%

Credit 3.2
Materials Reuse, 10%

Credit 4.1
Recycled Content, 10%

Credit 4.2
Recycled Content, 20%

Indoor Environmental Quality

Credit 6.1
Controllability of Systems, Lighting

LEED FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS: OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE

Indoor Environmental Quality

Credit 2.2
Occupant Comfort: Occupant-Controlled Lighting

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