Our application is unusual. We are uplighting a 5 ft x 5 ft painting from a channel in a stone fireplace mantle. A great plus is the ability to micro-adjust the direction of the lights. Five lights give the perfect glow that we wanted. The standard top down picture light fixture did not highlight the lower sections. My initial disappointment was frequent bulb replacement. That issue seems to have resolved itself. Perhaps we had a batch of faulty bulbs.