LED Tape Light Rug Image courtesy of IMU Design LED tape light crocheted into a carpet? A unique application for LED tape light that can be walked on, sat on and even slept on. These are not your average uses for LED tape light. In ...
Beam Angle The beam angle of a LED lamp refers to the measure of the spread of the light source and is simply stated in degrees. This is a great feature of LED lamps as the individual LED's can be arranged in a manner to alter the angle ...
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The color rendering index (CRI) has been used to compare fluorescent and HID lamps for over 40 years, but the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) does not recommend its use with white light LEDs. A new metric is under ...
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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Energy efficiency is good solid worthy way to encourage home owners to switch to away from incandescent bulbs. But they might as well switch to compact fluorescent alternatives because they cost only a quid each. And then some of them ...
With Christmas just around the corner, people will be looking to dust down their decorations and get them out for the festive period. It can sometimes be a bit of a contest between households trying to see who has the best decorations ...
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Light-emitting diodes are tiny electronic devices that emit far more light per unit of electricity than incandescent lamps or even compact fluorescents.But in the move to replace energy-gobbling incandescents,LEDs face a steeper climb in ...
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Taipei, Oct. 26, 2012 (CENS)--China's incandescent phase-out this month is expected to create multibillion RMBs of business opportunity for LED (light emitting diode) lighting makers there. The Chinese National Development and Reform ...
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Author(s): Allyson Schmutter Author(s): Monique O'Grady Are you still using the inefficient light bulbs Thomas Edison invented over a century ago? A new video series can answer your lighting questions so you don't get left in the dark. ...
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Last year I visited Switch Lighting, a small Silicon Valley company that claimed to have built something revolutionary. Switch's product: a light bulb that produced the same warm, comforting glow that we associate with Edison's enduring ...
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Electric utilities are increasingly sponsoring programs that promote energy-efficient lighting. From upstream incentives to consumer rebates, these programs are saving utility customers – and their power providers – a ...
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Philips Lighting has announced a new LED BR30 that dims to a warm 2200K and an LED T8 retrofit tube with an external driver, and said that it will be first to market with the previously announced 100W-equivalent A-lamp. Philips ...
Between all of the interesting shapes and sizes and decoding the letter names, deciding which lightbulb to buy is a lot tougher these days. This constantly cycling lightbulb lab Consumer Reports tests both compact fluorescent and LED ...
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October marks the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the LED (light-emitting diode) by General Electric's Nick Holonyak, father of the GaAsP visible LED. That decade-old innovation in the lab is finally about to seriously disrupt ...
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Amidst much media buzz about efficient new lighting technologies and a general uproar about government light bulb "bans" worldwide, the most fundamental rule for saving energy on lighting seems to be fading: Make only as much of the right ...
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