I There is no incandescent apocalypse imminent, so you can save yourself the trouble of hoarding incandescent bulbs from Home Depot, as well as save yourself from unusual stares at the sales counter. There is no ban on incandescent ...
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Kitchen lighting has come along way since the introduction of electricity, just over 100 years ago. Table lamps, pendants, accent lighting and ceiling lights have replaced candles, fireplaces and the warm hearth and the bright light of the ...
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i It’s debatable, but perhaps fireflies might have been the inspiration Edison used to create the light bulb. Nevertheless, fireflies have not only fascinated admirers at night, but scientists as well. Recently, science has used the ...
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Australia In February 2007, Australia enacted a law that will, in effect, by legislating efficiency standards, disallow most sales of incandescent light bulbs by 2010. The Australian Federal Government announced minimum energy performance ...
USA-Less than one year after showcasing the 152 lumens-per-watt concept LED bulb,Cree,has introduced the 170 lumens-per-watt(LPW)prototype LED light bulb.The innovations behind the high-performance 170 LPW LED bulb are enabling ...
According to a report on the global lighting industry made by the LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce, an international research institute, the LED market value for LED lighting application market in 2012 is 2.66 billion US dollars, which ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says that its new MAGIC (MAnufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) have won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012. The winners were announced at the ...
Say goodbye to that annoying buzz created by overhead fluorescent light bulbs in your office or residence hall. Wake Forest scientists have developed a flicker-free, shatterproof alternative for large-scale lighting. The lighting, based ...
LED lighting vendor Top Energy Saving System (TESS) on December 18 unveiled an LED light bulb consisting of two separate parts. The bulb's upper LED lighting head (source) is disposable and can replaced with a new one enabling the lower ...
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratories is in the process of developing new LED light bulbs, to change the future of electricity. As LED bulbs play a key role for electricity saving, the Department of Energy creates a competition to build ...
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Naming Conventions for Light Bulb Shapes Definition of Light Bulb Beam Angle The beam angle is the degree of width that light emits from a light source. In specific terms this is the angle between the opposing points on the beam ...
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Artificial light sources are usually evaluated in terms of luminous efficacy of a source, also sometimes called overall luminous efficacy. This is the ratio between the total luminous flux emitted by a device and the total amount of input ...
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Typical indicator LEDs are designed to operate with no more than 30–60 milliwatts (mW) of electrical power. Around 1999, Philips Lumileds introduced power LEDs capable of continuous use at one watt. These LEDs used much larger ...
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According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, major lighting markets in the world have been affected by the European debt crisis in varying degrees. Certain Chinese LED firms whose businesses rely heavily on overseas ...
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With the LED TV backlight market slowing, and the general lighting market yet to take off, LED makers are looking to all sorts of innovative ways to improve cost and performance to drive adoption — from disruptive new technologies to ...
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