WAC Lighting 23" Kent LED Picture Light PL-50023

No. The 23 inch Kent picture light runs on 120V AC LED technology, so no driver or transformer is required. It wires directly to line voltage and mounts over a pancake junction box, which is what makes it practical on a finished wall where there is no room for a driver behind the backplate. The backplate is 5.2 inches long, so size the box accordingly.

It dims only on an electronic low voltage (ELV) dimmer, which gives smooth continuous dimming across the range. A standard incandescent/forward-phase dimmer is not the specified control for this fixture, so spec an ELV-rated dimmer when you pick the control. Load is 18W, well under any ELV dimmer's minimum-free range on most models, so check the dimmer's low-end load rating if you are driving just one fixture.

Yes, within limits. The Kent PL-50023 is damp location rated and IP44, and is listed for interior or exterior covered use. That covers a bathroom, a covered entry, or a porch soffit where it is shielded from direct rain. It is not a wet location fixture, so do not use it anywhere exposed to direct weather or hose spray. Listings are ETL and cETL, so it is accepted in both the US and Canada.

Hardwired only. There is no cord or plug on the Kent PL-50023, so it needs a junction box at the mount location, which rules out the retrofit approach of plugging into a nearby receptacle. It wall mounts and is intended to be aimed down over the display, though the head's 180 degree rotation lets you redirect it. If a receptacle is all that is available on your wall, this is the wrong fixture and you want a cord-and-plug picture light instead.

It is Title 20 compliant, which is the California appliance efficiency registration. It is not Title 24 compliant and is not Energy Star rated. If your project is a California permit job counting on Title 24 compliant luminaires in the lighting budget, this fixture does not satisfy that requirement and you will need to address it elsewhere in the design. It is also not ADA compliant, so keep it off corridor walls where protrusion limits apply.

The fixture body is 23 inches wide and 4.31 inches high, and the beam spread is a flood pattern rather than a tight spot, so it washes a broad area evenly instead of punching a hotspot. The head rotates 180 degrees in both directions, so you can aim the light down across a canvas, up the wall, or back toward the wall surface. For art, the usual approach is a fixture roughly half to two-thirds the width of the piece, which puts this one on paintings in the three to four foot range.

Output is 1400 lumens at 3000K, a warm white that reads natural on wood, paper, and canvas without going yellow. At 18 watts drawing that output it works as the only light source over a bookcase or in a short hall, though it is aimed display lighting rather than general room illumination. LED life is rated at 54,000 average hours, so in a lobby or corridor running 12 hours a day you are looking at years before any relamping conversation, and since the LED is integrated there is no bulb to change anyway.

Nothing to buy. The light source is a single integrated LED and it ships with the fixture, so there is no lamp to order and no socket. The tradeoff is that the LED is not a field-replaceable bulb, so plan on the fixture as the serviceable unit. That is the normal arrangement on integrated LED picture lights and it is why the 54,000 hour rating matters on spec.

Both are special order. The standard build is 120V at 3000K, and WAC offers 277V, 240V, or custom CCT versions of the Kent by special order rather than as stock configurations. If your drawing calls for 277V on a commercial lighting branch, that has to be specified up front, not swapped in the field.

Two: Aged Brass (PL-50023-AB) and Black (PL-50023-BK). Both are the 3000K version, so the color temperature is the same whichever finish you pick and fixtures mixed across a gallery or a run of corridors will match in light color. The body is aluminum with a white acrylic diffuser.

The Kent uses a white acrylic diffuser over the integrated LED, which is what produces the even wash rather than visible diodes, and the beam is a flood spread. Combined with 3000K warm output, that gives a continuous band of light across a canvas or shelf face instead of scallops. Construction is aluminum hardware with the acrylic lens.