Are you just now accepting the idea of those CFLs and LED lights whose majesty everyone has been proclaiming from the rooftops over the past few years? Well don’t get too comfortable with these products just yet. Professor David Carroll and a team from North Carolina’s Wake Forest University have developed a new way to use [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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The Green Man Group guides us through the history of lighting in this performance at the 2012 Hubbell Lighting National Sales Meeting. The performance is going along just fine until LED creeps in and disrupts the performance. The musicians are made up of members of the Columbia and Alera Lighting marketing team and the production [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 26, 2012
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There really is an app for it! Have you ever wanted to change over to more energy-efficient light bulbs in your home or business but have given up because you aren’t sure which product is best suited for your needs? Well, fret no more dear reader! The Light Bulb Finder app is here to save [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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The Lighting Solutions Center will is offering 2-day course, which will discuss the ever-increasing LED market and the speed at which LEDs are quickly being integrated into lighting applications. Participants will gain a basic understanding of how LED components are integrated into lighting fixtures and how well LEDs perform in particular lighting applications. Additional discussion [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 25, 2011
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A recent issue of the LED Journal featured an interesting and informative article on circuit protection for LED Strings with a focus on outdoor applications. The writers of the article focus on the three major weakness for LED products (quoted): They can be damaged by temperature cycling. Thermomechanical stress on the internal wire bonds can [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 13, 2011
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According to a recent post on Architectural Lighting On-line, NEMA has announced a new initiative to “coordinate and promote LED technology on a global level.” With the ever-expanding quality and advances in LED development, the time has definitely come for an organized strategy for the direction of this increasingly accepted advancement in the lighting technology. [...]
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
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