Larson Electronics Reveals New LED PAR 46 Replacement Bulb

Larson Electronics is excited to announce the reveal of their LED PAR 46 Replacement bulb. Bathing subjects in pure brilliant light and milspec rated for EMI, now there is no better choice for upgrading existing PAR 46 incandescent bulb fixtures to LEDs. This Par46 LED bulb provides numerous benefits and advantages over traditional incandescent lamps in that it is highly resistant to damage from shocks and vibration as well as up to 80% more efficient. The LEDs in this unit have an average lifespan rating of 50,000 hours, which reduces the costs and loss of productivity associated with maintaining and replacing traditional lamps. Producing 3600 lumens while drawing only 4 amps, this LED lamp easily outperforms 100 watt incandescent bulbs while drawing only half as many amps. There is no glass or filaments used in the construction of this LEB bulb and the aluminum body and solid state design of the LEDs results in a lamp that is as rugged as it is efficient.

One Million+ LEDs Light Up Largo Central Park This Holiday Season

Families looking for some sparkle over the holidays will enjoy an amazing light display of over a million lights in Largo Central Park. From Thanksgiving evening, November 28 to Friday, January 3 families are invited for free to walk through the park and see the dazzling displays of trains, toy bears, carolers, toy soldiers and many more!

Bet on Innovative LED Technology Pays Off-SORAA Expands its LED Manufacturing Operations in U.S.

Soraa, the world leader in the development of gallium nitride on gallium nitride (GaN on GaN) LED technology, announced today that it will open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Buffalo, New York. In partnership with the State of New York, the company will construct a new state-of-the-art GaN on GaN™ LED fabrication facility that will employ hundreds of workers. The new facility is projected to be operational in 2015. Soraa currently operates an LED fabrication plant in Fremont, California, one of only a few in the U.S.
“We chose Buffalo as the best location for our new fabrication facility based on several factors, including the innovative high-tech vision and strategy of Governor Cuomo; the ability to attract some of the best and brightest scientists and engineers in the world; and the capacity to tightly control the product quality and intellectual property around our LEDs through our partnership with the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering,” said Dr. Tom Caulfield, President and COO of Soraa. “With the new facility, our LED lighting capabilities will be refined and expanded, product innovation will accelerate, and light quality and efficiency will continue to improve."
“Under the largest investment in our Buffalo Billion initiative, we are building a state-of-the-art campus to house high-tech and advanced manufacturing companies that will create hundreds of jobs and leverage over a billion dollars in private investment for Western New York,” Governor Cuomo said. “Today, we welcome world-renowned high-tech company Soraa to Buffalo - an affirmation that Buffalo is back and better than ever.  This project marks a giant step forward in our Buffalo Billion strategy, transforming a once vacant property into a development ready site that will create good-paying permanent jobs, make Buffalo an international hub for innovation, and attract more businesses from around the world. Today, Buffalo is truly on the move.”
In 2007, a team of pioneering professors from the worlds of engineering and semiconductors—Dr. Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue laser and LED; Dr. Steven DenBaars, founder of Nitres; and Dr. James Speck of U.C. Santa Barbara's College of Engineering—came together and made a bet on an LED technology platform completely different than current industry practice, a technology most industry experts at the time considered to be impossible to execute.
Soraa bet that GaN on GaN LEDs would produce more light per area of LED and be more cost-effective than technology based on other foreign substrates like sapphire or silicon carbide.  This strategy ran against every trend in the LED industry.  That bet paid off: today, the company’s LEDs emit more light per LED material than any other LED; handle more electric current per area than any other LED; and the company’s crystals are up to a thousand times more precise than any other LED crystal.

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Look How Drastically Intelligent LEDs Can Cut Energy Consumption

PG&E, California's largest utility, wanted to know how much energy controllable LEDs could save its industrial customers. It recently found its answer: a lot. Earlier this year, the utility tested the performance of a networked LED system at a 44,800-square-foot Ace Hardware distribution warehouse in California. The system was installed and controlled by Digital Lumens, a Boston-based company with more than 500 projects deployed in the commercial and industrial sector.

DOE publishes a Caliper report and subjective study on LED PAR38 lamps

The US Department of Energy concluded that all 38 models of PAR38 lamps tested surpass halogen lamps in terms of energy efficiency. Subjective testing of some models by IES members determined that single emitters performed best. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published two reports on LED-based PAR38 retrofit lamps including an updated quantitative Caliper report on the lamps and a subjective report on light quality in which lighting designers rated various products. The Caliper report is an addendum to Report 20 in the DOE Caliper series that was initially issued in 2012, and the addendum covers six additional lamps and three additional benchmarks focused on the performance characteristics of the LEDs. The subjective report has been called Caliper 20.1 and covers the evaluation of beam quality, shadow quality, and color quality by lighting professionals.

LED light transmissive carpets to provide information, direction, inspiration

Royal Philips and Desso announced a partnership agreement to develop solutions that combine LED lighting with light transmissive carpet. This innovation will further unlock the potential of LED integration into surfaces and adds an exciting dimension to interior design and space planning. The solution will transform the way people interact with information and their environment in offices, hotels, conference centers and other public buildings.
These LED light emitting carpets will provide many benefits in the areas of information, direction, inspiration and safety, such as: Guiding people around buildings, including safety exits and route. Enhancing the ambiance and atmosphere of the interior of buildings combining lighting with design and colour. Or helping to de-clutter spaces by making information visible only when needed
The solution is designed for high traffic areas and comes in different colors, shapes and sizes – enabling highly flexible application of the new technology.
The partnership is an agreement to work exclusively together in developing the markets in EMEA. In addition to this, a joint development agreement has been signed focusing on a seamless integration of this solution into new and existing buildings. The product name will be revealed in 2014 as part of the full go-to-market launch, but Philips and Desso are already working on pilot projects in key markets.
Combining the many benefits of Desso’s carpet, such as improved indoor air quality, acoustics and comfort with the benefits of Philips’ LED lighting, this innovation reflects Philips and Desso’s common goal to improve people’s lives, whilst bringing a new level of design freedom to architects, designers and end-users.

LED holiday lights increasing in popularity

Plummeting prices have resulted in a noticeable shift away from incandescent holiday bulbs and toward energy-efficient LED lights that can pay for themselves in reduced electricity costs in as little as two years or less. LED lights have been around for years, but until recently the technology was expensive and had limited appeal, The Kansas City Star reported. But dramatic price reductions have made LED Christmas lights cheap enough that retailers such as Wal-Mart and Costco are devoting much more space for them.

Urban style meets cycling function in the Eclaireur LED jacket

LED jackets built for cycling and running are nothing new. We've covered the Sporty Supaheroe jacket and other examples of this type of wearable technology. Where the new Eclaireur jacket steps it up is in integrating LEDs into a jacket you'll wear in public when you're not on your bike. On purpose.

Price drops raise popularity of LED holiday lights

Plummeting prices have resulted in a noticeable shift away from incandescent holiday bulbs and toward energy-efficient LED lights that can pay for themselves in reduced electricity costs in as little as two years or less. LED lights have been around for years, but until recently the technology was expensive and had limited appeal, The Kansas City Star reported. But dramatic price reductions have made LED Christmas lights cheap enough that retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco are devoting much more space for them. Wal-Mart is devoting half of its shelf space for Christmas lights to LEDs, with a string of 50 mini LED lights going for $5, down from $6.30 last year, the newspaper reported.

Here's How Chrysler Crams A Ton Of LEDs In The Back Of Dodges

One of the ways Chrysler has been trying to keep Dodge vehicles from looking exactly like Chryslers and Jeeps is by adding racetrack-style lighting in the rear. And designers like it so much that they're continually improving on it. The Ron Burgundy-approved 2014 Dodge Durango is the next Dodge to have the style behind the Charger, which was first, and the Dart. But if one were to look close enough at each one side by side, you'd notice the Durango's lighting is a little bit smoother. A little more refined

Washington Metro Will Install LEDs at Zero Cost

The payback time for light-emitting diodes has dropped considerably in recent years in certain commercial and municipal applications. But for many companies and cities, making the switch to LEDs still requires too much money upfront. To get around the sticky issue of multi-year paybacks, Philips has just offered its first turnkey lighting-as-a-service model to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. WMATA will upgrade more than 13,000 lighting fixtures at no upfront cost and pay for the project, plus a ten-year maintenance contract with Philips, through the $2 million savings the LEDs will provide annually.

New Compact Designer Light Bulb by LEDO LED Technologies

In the spirit of joint innovation, Swarovski, the world's leading manufacturer of high quality, precision cut crystals,and LEDO LED have teamed up to create a LED light with three distinct crystal variants mounted to the reflectors for absolutely stunning effects. The crystals give BULLED an extraordinary light quality coupled with exceptionally beautiful optics. BULLED's new radiance has an aesthetic appeal unmatched in the industry. Each of the three models has its own distinctive light reflecting properties.

Home Depot will trade in your energy-wasting Christmas lights for LEDs

Alright guys, we’re on board, as much as anyone else, with the idea that Christmas comes after Thanksgiving and that maybe we don’t need to think about shopping and decorating for another few weeks. But American retailers are not — they want you to start thinking about Christmas now. Which means we have to go against our better instincts and tell you to start thinking ahead. Because you can now go into Home Depot, trade in your old, incandescent Christmas lights, and get energy-saving, LED replacements at a discount — but only for the next few days.

Lighting up homes with PET bottles

Attach a PET bottle filled with water and bleaching powder on an asbestos roof, and lo... there is light. The 'bottle bulb' is proving to be an ecological and sustainable source of light during day time — the water inside the bottle refracts sunlight hitting the roof and lights up the room below with an intensity of a 55 watt light bulb. Residents of Ejipura have been introduced to this 'elementary' way of lighting up their lives by Liter of Light (LOL) — a global open source movement that provides slums and other areas having erratic power supply with these eco-friendly 'bulbs'.

In--ground LEDs light way on bike path

Fitchburg leaders and a local cycling group gathered at Edenberry Street and the Capital City State Trail in Fitchburg Tuesday to debut the trail’s new lights. The city of Fitchburg said a wooded, quarter-mile-long section stretch of the Capital City State Trail has been outfitted with 30 LED lights to help guide cyclists. The solar-powered lights are mounted in-ground to help bikers see the center line along the curvy path.

UCSB studies optimization, Cree licenses remote technology

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara say that they have discovered how to formulate LED phosphors for better efficiency, while Cree has announced a licensing agreement with NNCrystal covering remote phosphor IP. A team working at the Solid State Lighting & Energy Center (SSLEC) at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) has announced a breakthrough in phosphor research that they believe could allow LED efficacy to hit 300 lm/W. In other phosphor news, Cree licensed its remote-phosphor patent portfolio to NNCrystal, a set of intellectual property (IP) that Cree has maintained was fundamental to remote-phosphor-based solid-state lighting (SSL) products.

3 Causes You need to Believe about A Maglite Guided Flashlight

LEDs and or Light Emitting Diodes are usually around due to the fact this 1920's when it was subsequently 1st discovered by way of Russian scientist. XMAS TREES flas hlight things could state 10-80 lumens for each and every watt, where it seriously is undoubtedly claimed that 50 lumens is 1 watt. A handful of complained about specifically how heavy the Mag-Lite is when in comparison to typical flashlights they also stated it lasts weeks too. This tends to produce them seriously well-known inside the finish user sector. You'll be able to not wait till you may want one to shop for 1 although. It genuinely is employed by policemen whilst within the line of obligation, by campers together with by household owners financial savings around your house. You might have one certain that is definitely surely canister shaped so you hold inside your hand substantially like standard flashlights or LED Flashlight that you are capable to aquire 1 distinct that is definitely similar to a lantern which you may mount to help light function location. A frequent flashlight with incandescent incandescent bulbs eats up batteries quickly. It could possibly be a semiconductor diode of which emits light when a stainless steel current is readily obtainable for it. Due to the fact you aren't truly ready, you hit as well as break several pricey lamps and vases in the approach.
Precisely what motives are additionally there for either investing in Maglite LED flashlight for those who happen to haven't currently got one or convert your older 1? You are now inside a position to get LED flashlights in a collection of sizes and interests. If you're contemplating acquiring flashlight sometime soon, look at an LED flashlight as becoming a effective alternative. This implies you must just ensure that to get a LED flashlight which might be tough. LED torch engineers are costed with creating helpful, precise optics parts for totally discovering the light which LED chips give. An outcome with the big quantity with power consumed, these batteries wind up obtaining altered continually. All a cool superior characteristics make LED torch turn out to become our regular necessary gear, regardless of in property or outside. (As a consequence of this, astronomers recommend researching askance at dim objects within your night sky; this taps on the power of that rods.) Rods additionally deliver vision in dimly lit situations; they usually make monochromatic, black-and-white images from the nighttime planet.
Brightness from incandescent flashlight are frequently powerful or weak above the light reference. LED flashlights personal great operating circumstances, definitely considerably for any longer time than typical flashlights. The really first question which must be answered is which kind of torch just one particular ought to get, that is definitely, an LED flashlight possibly a common incandescent just 1. LED flashlights might be mentions as heavy duty tools; they are in a position to normally be continuous use much better than 100 hours leading to a batteries run dried. Run TimeWill you be inside your flashlight in faraway places, specifically where it might be difficult to get hold of a fresh pack involving batteries? Becoming matter of truth, LED lights could genuinely properly final for 15 years plus. And it might last for many years and stay ready in a disastrous scenario. In the event the jointing will not be so very good, it could possibly induce lighting failure of this LED or entire function inside the flashlight.

20KV/10KA surge suppressor for LED applications

MAGTECH SS20 Series of 20KV/10KA ac line surge suppressors protect designs from catastrophic failures caused by over-voltage surges. LEDs are designed into 24/7 applications, providing long life and low maintenance. Standard features include, integrated thermal protection device per UL1449 (Type 4), meets IEEE C62.42 surge requirements, wide-range operational temperature from -40C to +85C, LED indicator and standard 1/2? NPT threads for quick installation.

SaltySupply.com Releases a New Aqua Illumination-Hydra LED Black Light

There’s an old adage that says what’s done in the dark will come to light, and thanks to a new Aqua illumination Hydra LED light sold by Salty Supply, those who use it will see maximum performance. “Combining the control of the AI Vega and unmatched power of the AI Sol, the AI Hydra brings a new level of performance,” said Richard Gilliland, ceo of Salty Supply, one of the largest online suppliers of high-end marine aquarium equipment. Gilliland went on to explain that unlike the Sol Blue and White, the newly released Hydra uses 80 degree lenses to provide uniform light output and color blending.

LED Canada's MR16 Installed in Multimillion Dollar Smart Home Renovation

LED Canada's 5 watt COB (Chip on board) was recently chosen for primary lighting throughout the newly renovated property and utilizes over 300 Smart controlled LED MR16 bulbs. 5 watts of LED has the same light output as 50 watt Halogen and last over 10 times as long. LED MR 16's bulbs are one of the widest pricing range in LED, with value bulbs available under five dollars, while higher quality LED bulbs can fetch over $50 a piece for Museum/art gallery grade with CRI (color rendering index) of over 90.
Originally, the main electrical contractor (Andrew from Blaze Homes) had chosen a fairly high-end, brand-name LED MR16, although the bulbs were classified as dimmable, flickering, and uneven light levels were observed from many of the comparable LEDs priced at over $30 per bulb.

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Incandescent bulbs in high demand

Incandescent light bulb demand is increasing as people stock up on them before they get gradually phased out. The US government is in the process of phasing out the bulbs over the next several years. One hundred-watt and 75-watt incandescent bulbs are already no longer being produced, and as of January 1, the production and importing of 60 watt incandescent bulbs will also stop in the United States. This incandescent bulb "phase out" began early last year with a goal of promoting the use of higher efficiency bulbs.