Company launches simpler, smaller and less costly IC solution for dimmable LED retrofits Next week at Strategies in Light, the premier conference and exhibition for solid-state lighting (SSL), emerging fabless company, Ikon Semiconductor, ...
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Dublin-based fab-less chip company Ikon Semiconductor has jumped into the competitive LED light bulb market with its first product: a dimmable single-stage ac-dc converter. Like iWatt's new chip for non-dimmable bulbs (see page??), Ikon ...
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Texas Instruments has off-line, phase-dimmable, constant-current lighting controllers which can be retrofitted to a range of LED bulb types, including E14, GU10, A19, PAR20/30/38, MR16 and AR111. The TPS92075 is available in a 6-pin ...
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Strategies Unlimited and Soraa have announced an SSL plugfest to test dimmer and transformer compatibility with 12- or 120-VAC MR16 LED lamps that will take place on the show floor at the Strategies in Light conference. The exhibits at ...
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UK - West London-based rental company, Entec Sound & Light were asked to supply lighting, trussing and rigging for a high profile one off concert by Malaysian Chinese superstar Fish Leong at Wembley Arena. Entec was working for the show's ...
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Mid-power LEDs on the new SnapBrite SR114 module combined with Lynk Labs AC-drive technology deliver 100 lm/W efficacy and dim-to-warm operation for SSL lamps or luminaires. Lynk Labs has announced a new chip-on-board (COB) module in its ...
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After 12,500 hours of testing energy-saving LEDs, most of the lightbulbs in the labs at Consumer Reports are just as bright as they were after 3,000. What does 12,500 hours mean to you? That's like saying you bought an LED 11 years ago and ...
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Australia - The National Institute of Dramatic Art has taken delivery of Jands HPC12 dimmer racks to be utilised in their new atrium performance space. "We needed dimmers that had a "rock and roll" approach to allow for quick and easy ...
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Ambient: The surrounding light level in a given area. It is also the temperature in which a LED light source is expected to operate in. Referring to light, it is the light given off by the Sun, Moon, other light fixtures nearby or even ...
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Network World - SANTA CLARA -- At this week's Fall 2012 DEMO conference, big data was in a category by itself - and for good reason. In an event typically dominated by consumer-facing technologies, DEMO organizers created a separate panel ...
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On December 14, 2012, European Union officially published the commission regulation (EU) No 1194/2012with regard to ecodesign requirements for directional lamp, LED lamp and related equipment, including when they are integrated into other ...
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Texas Instruments Inc.introduced a new LED controller with constant power regulation. The LM3447 AC/DC LED driver includes a dimmer detect,phase decoder and adjustable hold current circuits to provide smooth and flicker-free dimming ...
Created by David Oxley, the Harvey LED task lamp consists of joints held together with magnets rather than springs or cantilevers. This design allows for a wider variety of movement than a typical lamp would be able to do. Images ...
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Most people know that ceiling fans improve cooling costs but what about heating costs? Can ceiling fans help reduce your heating costs? Fanimation Fan Per Energy Star: - When Using the Ceiling Fan Year Round - “In the ...
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Luc Peumans from Genk, Belgium-based creative visual design practice, Painting With Light, has designed lighting for the new Ice Age Live show, a vibrant stage adaptation of the 20th Century Fox Ice Age animation movies featuring the same ...
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