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Lighting Styles has sold illuminated shaving and vanity mirrors for a number of years and one common question is the availability of battery operated mirrors. So why would a battery operated shaving mirror be required? Ease of installation means a battery illuminated mirror can just be screwed to the wall and switched on. No electrician is required and any existing decoration and wall tiles are not disturbed by the need to channel out the wall to provide and electrical supply.

Nevertheless the high power utilization of halogen and fluorescent bulbs built them into impractical to use on batteries - the power packs simply wouldn't normally operate the bulbs for some time enough period of time or will give insufficient light to make them worthwhile. Once high productivity LED lighting fixtures became accessible their energy-efficient use of electric power and their requirement for a low voltage DC supply made them suitable for use on batteries.

So with new technologies presenting a low energy light source Lighting Styles went through the design exercise to generate one of the most sensible and stylish structure for a mirror that might use the LED light source. The first necessity was to possess a mirror that gifted a magnified image. Popular degrees of magnifying for use in vanity and shaving mirrors are 3x and 5 x magnification. This amount of magnification incredibly easier to apply make-up with reliability and allow a close shave that doesn't miss hairs in more uneasy regions.

Also in the design process was the requirement for the mirror to be flexible enough for use by all member of the family. So the design was based around a vertical rail that allows the height of the mirror to be raised or lowered to suit users of different height. Other practical design requirements include the ability to bring the mirror closer to the user and make it easy to fold away so an arm is used that brings the mirror 150mm forward for close-up work. Next to suit all bathroom layouts the design incorporated a ball joint that allowed the mirror to tilt and rotate so that the user can see a clear image when using the battery operated mirror.

With all the design aesthetics of the battery shaving mirror set up the practicalities of supplying the best light source was thought of. Behind the magnified glass is a printed circuit board with 36 "T" type LED chips that give off light to the side where a opaque plastic ring around the mirror catches the sunlight and illuminates the face. Another practical requirement of a battery operated shaving mirror is making sure long battery life and consideration was given to how this might be achieved. After watchful trials Lighting styles learned that integrating an automatic timer into the on switch will be a good and dependable strategy for ensuring the mirror wasn't left on after use. We all have been in a hurry in the morning so it will be a blunder to create a battery run mirror that does not automatically switch itself off! This functionality helps you to save the batteries and ensures very long time between battery replacements. Lastly a few other improvements were made such as a soft push option that switches the lights on and allows for three stages of brightness.

Now you can have a stylish battery operated mirror in your bathroom that is made from sturdy steel with a polished chrome finish with a glass mirror illuminated by LED lights.