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High ceilings can make a residence feel open and airy, but they often come with difficult-to-reach light fittings. To better deal with that, mattwach built a motorized light bulb changer which makes the job much easier.
Light bulb changers already exist, but they typically need to be used on-axis with the light fitting, which for chandeliers and many other lights, can be difficult. Instead, mattwach’s design allows the device to be used at 90-degree angles, and motorizes it for added ease of use.
Influenced by growth momentum from increasing automotive market shipments and the rising penetration rate of LED lighting, global automotive LED market value is estimated to be valued at US$3.51 billion in 2021, a 31.8% YoY growth rate. This demonstrates that LED headlights and automotive display LED products remain the main driving force for growth in the automotive LED market.
Although the automotive semiconductor shortage has led to manufacturing bottlenecks among some car manufacturers, since car manufacturers have asked LED producers to continue production, the purchase order status of major automotive LED manufacturers will not be affected before the end of 2021. Among the 2021 revenue rankings of automotive LED manufacturers, the top three companies remain ams-OSRAM, Nichia, and Lumileds. These three account for a combined market share of as much as 71.7%.
In terms of automotive lighting, ams-OSRAM has leveraged stable product quality, excellent lighting efficiency, and cost performance to make it the supplier of choice for the world’s high-end cars and new energy vehicles, including high-flying Tesla among its customers. This year, ams-OSRAM’s automotive LED revenue grew rapidly and has an opportunity to reach US$1.304 billion by year’s end for an annual growth rate of approximately 40.9%. Samsung LED’s PixCell LED has also been successfully integrated into the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, boosting its automotive LED revenue growth to as much as US$121 million with market share expected to increase to 3.4%.
A new lamp Solar Echo Lighting intends to improve indoor lighting in a stylish manner. The lamp has a unique flower design, where its petals, which are made from cork, open up at different times throughout the day. In this way, it mimics how the sun moves throughout the sky while lighting the day. It’s a physical echo of the sun.
A new Hyundai Grandeur is in the works and it will look quite a lot different than the outgoing model.
The exterior design of this concept was heavily based on the original Grandeur, but updated with things like LED lights.
Most notably, it appears as though the headlights and taillights of the new Grandeur could have pixel-style LEDs, in a similar vein to the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and other forthcoming Ioniq models.
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Visa Lighting is to unveil its new LED drum pendant light, Riff, which takes a popular luminaire shape and creates a fresh modern interpretation.
“We wanted to create a fixture with depth, to draw attention to the contoured inner reflector," says Visa Lighting Senior Industrial Designer Hans Nielson.
The simple, drum silhouette is created with thin, artfully-rolled aluminum. Riff hangs from the ceiling at the end of a thin power cable, and the wide underside lets a bright and even light layer emanate out, illuminating the space below with ease.
Riff's LED diffuser was optimized to reduce glare and create the most comfortable light.
While addressable LED strips are all the rage, Mike from mikeselectricstuff has been working on an installation using the more basic two-wire strips that are simply controlled via PWM dimming. He’s recently figured out a tidy way to send sensor signals down these strips without adding any additional cabling.
KPR is to announce the launch of UVC based disinfection solutions for automotive applications.
LED Autolamps launched in 2002 and offers a focused portfolio of reliable aftermarket LED products that delivers maximum customer value. While the Truck-Lite brand has been sold in Australia for over three decades, Truck-Lite and LED Autolamps each serve the market differently, making LED Autolamps a natural complement to the Truck-Lite brand that serves Clarience Technologies well.
Bridgelux, a developer and manufacturer of innovative LED solutions, announces the results of a study the firm commissioned for its innovative full spectrum product family, Thrive.
The goal of the study was to ascertain whether top designers would recognize a difference between Thrive and 90 CRI products and find out which light source looked more natural based on their expert opinion.
The study utilized a complement of Thrive and 90+ CRI LEDs at three popular color temperatures: 2700K, 3000K and 4000K. The light sources were placed inside a box and attached to a switch.
Common articles in different colors and finishes along with a standard Color Chart were placed under the LEDs inside the box. Designers were able to switch back and forth in each CCT to discern any differences. Their comments were recorded over a series of 18 separate tests.
Across this wide range of objects, Thrive was preferred 88% of the time compared to 8% for 90 CRI and 4% undecided. Enthusiastic response to Thrive were typical with one lighting designer claiming 'It felt like sunlight coming through the window.”'
Thrive uses a broad-blue chip technology and special phosphor blend to fill in the common Cyan gap that plagues most LED solutions. The technology is at the heart of Sylvania’s TruWave technology for their popular Nature™ Lamp series of products. Because of Thrive’s full-spectrum approach, Thrive is more able to match the spectrum of the sun across all color temperatures. Benefits of the natural spectrum of the sun using Thrive include reduced eye strain, less fragmented sleep and a higher sense of emotional well-being.
If you're new to lighting then you're probably tearing your hair out trying to decide whether to buy Continuous LED lighting, or invest in a set of flash strobes. This video gives 5 reasons why LED lighting is the best option to go for if you're a beginner and just getting started out in the world of studio lighting.
HomeSeer unveils its new full featured Z-Wave smart switch. HS-WX300 may be configured to operate as a dimmer or on/off switch, may be installed with or without a neutral wire, includes LEDs that may be programmed to independently glow or blink different colors when things happen in your home and it may be used to launch automations when its paddle is pressed multiple times.
HS-WX300 may be paired to your hub as a dimmer for use in bedrooms or other living areas that benefit from different light levels or it may be paired as a on-off switch for use in kitchens, closets, bathrooms or other areas where dim light is not needed.
Each switch includes 7 RGB LED indicators that may be programmed to independently glow or blink different colors when things happen in your home. Use to monitor the status of security sensors, appliances, garage doors, or just about any smart device in your home.
HS-WX300 may also be used as a scene controller or automation trigger by pressing the paddle up to 5 times. Use to control garage doors, lights, or any other smart devices.
HS-WX300 includes the latest 700 series Z-Wave Plus v2 technology, S2 security encryption and SmartStart for easy and quick inclusion into your hub's network.
Visa Lighting is proud to unveil its new LED drum pendant light, Riff, which takes a popular luminaire shape and creates a fresh modern interpretation.
The simple, drum silhouette is created with thin, artfully-rolled aluminum. This metal shade is fitted with a contoured inner reflector hand-spun by our skilled crafts-people. As a result, Riff’s concave inner spinning beautifully juxtaposes the crisp, straight-sided outer fixture housing.
Riff hangs from the ceiling at the end of a thin power cable, and the wide underside lets a bright and even light layer emanate out, illuminating the space below with ease.
Rather than utilize exposed lamping, Riff relies on a flat, acrylic diffuser that sits over the LED sources. Riff's LED diffuser was optimized to reduce glare and create the most comfortable light.
This high-performance downlight pendant is offered in 16, 24 and 32 inch diameters. Choose between light output temperatures 2700K, 3000K, 3500K or 4000K with a 90CRI option.
Seoul Viosys has filed a patent infringement complaint with the French court. Under the French court’s order, bailiffs seized products from the business offices of those companies located in Paris and Lille to secure evidence of suspected infringement.
SSI (Mediana Electronics) was the subject of a search and seizure for supplying Korea’s largest companies with white LED chips, infringing Seoul Semiconductor’s technology in order to generate hundreds of billions of Korean won in sales revenues. SSI’s employees were arrested for stealing Seoul’s technology.
Recently, Seoul Viosys and its strategic partners also obtained a series of permanent injunctions or judgments for patent infringement in the U.S. and Europe against various UV LED manufacturers, such as RayVio, Everlight, Bolb, Epileds, and LED Engin. They still continue to pursue additional enforcements against some of those manufacturers.
Seoul Viosys has been collaborating for over 20 years with SETi, a pioneer in UV LED technology. Together, Seoul Viosys and SETi co-developed Violeds technology that can effectively disinfect water, air space, and surfaces, including the elimination of 99.437% of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in less than one second based upon testing from a respected research institute. Seoul Viosys expects the probability of infection to be reduced to 3% in an indoor environment when using Violeds. Violeds technology also has applications in deodorization and 3D printing. Based on its technology innovation, Seoul Viosys supplies leading LED solutions for refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, and water purifiers to the top three global companies in Korea, the US, and China.
This video is to give some insights in creating a very large LED CUBE. The dome is made from acrylic. All black plastic was printed on my CR10S-pro and glued with chloroform.
The refresh rate of the display and the animations is 178 frames per second. Everything is non blocking and refreshing the display is done with DMA taking zero processor time. There also is an esp8266 and a touchscreen connected to the PCB, that will need to be programmed at a later time.
The new facility will more than double Agrifutura’s indoor growing space, allowing the company to offer a continuous supply of tomatoes to more customers throughout the year.
With the first tomato crop to be planted in December 2021, the new greenhouse will use a fine balance of Lucalox high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps and Arize Element L1000 LED top lighting, in combination with natural daylight, to reach the target daily light integral (DLI) for every plant.
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Visa Lighting introduces Volare, a new decorative linear pendant. This new LED light brings eye-catching design elements with wow-factor performance to the commercial pendant lighting market.
The Volare pendant seemingly floats in space with a beautiful translucent acrylic diffuser that gently curves around a thin LED lightbar. Hidden hardware and the minimalist shape echo traditional Scandinavian designs bringing a more stylized option into the linear pendant lighting market.
Volare stands out from other linear suspension lighting seen on the commercial pendant lighting market because of its beautiful glow, interesting curved shape, and its impressive light output. Most linear pendant lighting provides only downlight which can create a cave-like atmosphere and harsh shadows. The improved performance of Volare provides usable surface downlight as well as uplight providing ambient illumination to the entire application space.
This pendant’s sleek design is credited to the pared-down simplicity of elements used such as the cloth-covered powered suspension cables eliminating a bulky power cord seen in similar fixtures. The LED light bar is suspended under the acrylic with hidden stand-offs and appears to float underneath the illuminated diffuser.
