— Installation
About 20 minutes, one screw in the ceiling, no electrician. Read the whole page once before you drill.
Requires a ceiling height of 8 ft 6 in to 11 ft 6 in (102 to 138 in). Measure first.
Do not plug in until the lamp is fully mounted.
Decide where the base cone will stand. It is 4.7 in (120 mm) across and the cord has to reach an outlet. Mark the floor.
Find the point on the ceiling directly above the mark. Hang a weighted string from the ceiling, or use your phone’s level app held against the cable once it is up. Keep the ceiling point at least 3 in from any wall so the 3.1 in (80 mm) light cones clear it. Mark the ceiling.
The fitting is hollow. In every case the screw goes inside it, pokes out the top, and you drive it from below with a long Phillips screwdriver through the open bottom.
Most US homes: drywall over wood joists.
Lofts, many apartments, garages.
Only if you cannot move the lamp to a joist.
Push the free end of the cable up into the bottom of the fitting until it comes out of the side slot. Press the button on the fitting while you push; the cable slides freely only while the button is down.
Read this first. The three light cones are fixed on the cable, 61.4 in (1558.5 mm) from the top cone to the bottom cone. Only two things adjust: the cable above the top cone, at the ceiling fitting, and the cable below the bottom cone, which stores inside the base. Where the cones sit is set by how you split the spare cable between those two places.
| Ceiling | Top cone below ceiling | Bottom cone above floor |
|---|---|---|
| 8 ft 6 in | about 17 in | about 24 in |
| 9 ft | about 19 in | about 27 in |
| 10 ft | about 25 in | about 34 in |
| 11 ft 6 in | about 33 in | about 44 in |
Route the cord along the baseboard, plug in, switch on. The two upper cones light the floor and the lower cone lights the ceiling.
From the top: 19.7 in (500 mm) between the first and second cone, then 41.7 in (1058.5 mm) to the third. The first two face down, the third faces up.
That is deliberate. Each cone hides its light source from the one below it, so you never look straight into a lens from a sofa or a bed, and the light lands on the floor and the ceiling instead of in your eyes. Equal spacing would put one cone at seated eye level on almost every ceiling height.
The spacing is built into the cable and cannot be changed. Requires a ceiling height of 8 ft 6 in to 11 ft 6 in (102 to 138 in).
Your ceiling is under 8 ft 6 in. The lamp is installed correctly; the fixed cone span just takes up more of the height. On a 96 in ceiling expect the top cone about 14 in below the ceiling and the bottom cone about 21 in above the floor. Give the top a little more cable than the bottom if you prefer the block lower.
That is spare cable. Loosen the base set screw, press the fitting button, pull the cable down from the base end, feed the excess into the base, tighten. Step 04.
Press the fitting button and take up another inch at the ceiling. The cable should be lightly taut, not tight.
It was screwed into bare drywall. It needs a joist (case A) or a ceiling-rated drywall anchor (case C). Patch the hole and remount.
Press the button fully and keep the cable straight in line with the fitting. Feed the end in from the bottom, not from the side slot.
Still stuck?
Send your order number and two photos: the ceiling fitting and the base cone. Replies within 2 business days.
