WAC Lighting's new Impulse uses an integrated multi-chip LED spot or low-voltage MR16 lamps.  Robustly engineered from solid die-cast aluminum, Impulse is a thermally efficient luminaire offering architectural lighting options. Additional optical beam spread and color temperature selections make this luminaire an all-in-one choice for lighting professionals. The Energy Star compliant luminaire uses a 12-watt multi-chip LED that offers a 50,000-hour potential life from ANSI compliant warm/neutral bins for optimal color consistency. Multi-chip technology imp...

Power Integrations has a reference design for an 85%-efficient, 15W PAR38 downlight driver that it claims will deliver flicker-free dimming without the use of electrolytic bulk capacitors. Based around the firm’s LNK405EG LED driver IC, it is designed to provide flicker-free performance across a broad range of triac dimmers. Typical TRIAC dimmers were designed for incandescent lights that use an order of magnitude more power than LED lights of equivalent lumen output. According to the supplier, the low current requirement of LED lights, especially...

CCFL T8 tube with embedded ballast Directly replacing T8 tube, do not need to remove ballast Amazing Comfortable: Over Ra 85 Peak Durable: Lifespan over 50,000 hours, Switch on/off times over 100,000 times Super Healthy: UV-cut It is ideal for any indoor places where need comfortable lighting which like office, hospital, school, retail store and other commercial places. ...

Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a family of switch-mode LED driver ICs for a broad range of general lighting applications. The LED drivers combine thermal protection with output currents that range from 350mA up to several amps. The range has an integrated power stage, or can be used with an external power MOSFET, and achieve up to 98 percent efficiency, Infineon said. Applications range from MR16 halogen replacement to residential and commercial lighting, and street lighting. The drivers include support for both the analog and pulse width modulation m...

Gem Hsin, master of cool design and creative products, has launched the new Albite LED Home Lighting Series, featuring a floor lamp, wall lamp and ceiling lamp: albite.stand, albite.line and albite.sky, respectively. With the new Albite series, Gem Hsin is introducing an innovative new concept in LED home lighting, highly functional LED lamps that suit a wide range of home types, combining LED lighting seamlessly with the user's living space. The new Albite series of LED home lamps is different from older LED products. Competing LED lights use higher-...

Officials of the Guangdong Provincial Government stated that they are working towards the goal that by 2015, LED lighting will make up 30% of the interior lighting in Guangdong. Street lighting is the breaking point for the government to popularize LED lighting: in the next two years, there will be over 600 thousand LED street lamps lightening up the night sky of the Pearl River Delta. The government will implement the LED plan starting in 2012 and aims to increase the penetration rate of LED in interior lighting to 30% by 2015. At the moment, there are 200 tho...

2230 SERIES, 6430 SERIES and 6830 SERIES Designed for Low Voltage DC Control Systems Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s luminaires to be factory configured for compatibility with Redwood Systems control solutions. By using Lunera’s new fixture series in tandem with the Redwood Systems low voltage lighting control and building intelligence platform, the combined system will provide facility manager...

- With high efficiency Nichia LED, for very long life and big energy savings - GlacialLight, a division of experienced global technology leader, GlacialTech Inc., today announced the MR1605WH-V2AN LED Lamp and GP-HS05N driver bundle, as part of the Mizar Series of LED lighting products. This high efficiency 5W LED lamp and driver are an ideal replacement for older, less-efficient light sources that use a GU5.3 bipin connector. The MR1605WH-V2AN LED lamp and GP-HS05N driver combo is a perfect choice for any location that can benefit fr...

New energy efficiency standards, set to become effective as of January 1st, 2012, are expected to phase out incandescent lightbulbs. Although the law does not expressly ban the use of incandescent lightbulbs, it does require lightbulbs to be 25 to 30 percent and at least 60 percent more efficient by 2014 and 2020, respectively, which will effectively eliminate the bulbs falling short of the standards. However, specialty bulbs, three-way bulbs, chandelier bulbs, refrigerator bulbs, plant grow lights and others will not be restricted by the new law. A lot of consumers are not happy ...

LED lighting manufacturer Evluma announces the renewal of its Sales and Marketing Agreement with Service Concepts. As part of the new agreement Service Concepts will work with Evluma to provide exclusive distribution for Evluma’s first Commercial and Industrial LED product, the soon to be released 50W Omnipar. Service Concepts is owned by 30 Midwest utilities and serves as a supplier to hundreds more. Evluma and Service Concepts have been working together to promote the Clearlight outdoor LED retrofits to the co-op market since July 2009. “Give...

LumiGrow, Inc., the leader in LED-based horticultural lighting solutions, announced today that it will provide energy-efficient illumination for Green Winter Farm, an indoor farm in Palmer, Alaska. LumiGrow LED lighting solutions will enable Green Winter Farm to grow vegetables with half the energy consumption and cost required by current farming methods. A family of four in Palmer, Alaska spends an average of $1,300 more on groceries each year than does the same-size Portland, Oregon family, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extensio...

Samsung LED (CEO, Jaekwon Kim) announced on September 20th that its mid-power 2323 LED package has now exceeded 6,000 hours of independent, EPA recognized 3rd party IES LM80 testing and the company is now able to provide LM80 test data upon request. IES LM-80-2008 is the industry standard that defines the method for testing LED lamps, arrays and modules to determine their lumen depreciation characteristics. The goal of LM-80 is to allow a reliable comparison of test results among laboratories by establishing uniform test methods. This test data now enabl...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces its entire family of LED-based troffer replacements, including the latest Cree CR series of troffers, have been qualified by the DesignLights Consortium™ (DLC), ensuring they meet the highest level of quality standards. Cree’s CR14™, CR 22™ and CR24™ troffers, along with the LR24™ and LR24-HE troffers, are the most efficient and have the highest CRI of any products rated in the DLC “Linear Panel” categories. A collaboration of ut...

New Mast Arm Fitter and Vandal Shield Guard now available. Spaulding Lighting, a Hubbell Lighting Inc. brand, is proud to introduce two new options for their high performance Cimarron LED outdoor luminaire. A new vandal shield guard and a mast arm fitter are now available as options with Spaulding’s most popular area site lighting fixture.   The new Mast Arm Fitter includes a standard 6” arm attached to the fixture and is designed for a quick and easy installation.  It ships as a separate piece, in the box with the fixture, to be attached to ...

Reportedly, Seattle City Light (SCL) has started to the old high-pressure sodium streetlamps with new LED lights in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park on Sept. 20. The newer LED technology uses approximately 48 percent less energy than current high-pressure sodium lights, and they are expected to last at least three times as long. The project cost, which was originally estimated at between $25-24 million, has dropped in the last year to $20 million for all 41,000 residential street lamps. A small portion of this cost will be covered by federal stimulus funds and SLC w...

Seesmart, Inc., a division of Seesmart Holdings, Inc.,has completed LED retrofit in a global supplier of eyewear, Zyloware Eyewear’s, new 50,000 square foot facility based in Westchester County, New York. The retrofit began at the end of last year and now Zyloware's offices and distribution center shine with 700 clean, energy-efficient Seesmart LEDs. Seesmart's LED lighting is 50%+ more efficient than fluorescent lighting and is rated for up to 50,000 hours of operation. LEDs produce far less heat than fluorescents, decreasing the demand on air con...

A new study has found that exposure to white LED bulbs suppresses our brain's production of melatonin that is responsible, among other things, for the regulation of our biological clock, more than exposure to the bulbs emitting orange-yellow light. In this study, conducted by astronomers, physicists and biologists from ISTIL- Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute in Italy, the National Geophysical Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Haifa, researchers for the first time examined the differences in melatonin suppression in a variou...

Sources inform that Lighting Science Group (LSG) will cooperate with BSES Rajdhani Power in the area of LED lighting. Both LSG and power distribution company BSES Rajdhani have entered into an agreement for the collaboration, where the two entities would "explore avenues to demonstrate and promote energy efficiency using the next generation LED lighting". According to BSES Rajdhani CEO Gopal Saxena said in a statement, scope of the association would also involve conducting field trials of various LED based lighting options, such as ma...

City officials announced that a program to replace more than 35,000 streetlights with brighter, energy efficient bulbs is under way. About 80 percent of the city's streetlights over the next 17 months will get new magnetic induction lights that have a whiter illumination over the current sodium vapor lamps. "The city will save $2.2 million annually from reduced energy and maintenance costs, and the higher-quality light will make our neighborhoods safer," Mayor Jerry Sanders said. According to the city, the life span of the new bulbs runs up to 100,000 hours, or ...

Light-Based Technologies (LBT) has closed the second tranche of a financing round totalling $7.5m. The series B Round of investment was lead by cleantech-focused venture capital firms VantagePoint Venture Partners and Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital. As part of the investment, LBT has added to its management team, appointing Art Aylesworth as CEO, Matthew Watson as COO and Barry Hagglund as CTO. Aylesworth was recently CEO of Carmanah Technologies for five years, during which time sales grew to over $60m and the workforce increased by more than t...

Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (which claims to be the only vertically integrated maker of LED solid-state light sources specifically for the lighting industry) has been chosen by the editorial team of AlwaysOn and industry experts worldwide as a GoingGreen Global 200 winner (a “leader among green-tech companies and a player most likely to disrupt markets”). “Inclusion in the GoingGreen Global 200 list validates our commitment to leading innovation and speeding market adoption for LED lighting,” says Bridgelux CEO Bill Watkins. &ld...

The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST) has developed a new concept: a biocompatible, flexible Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED that can detect prostate cancer. A flexible LED can conformably place on the human heart, situate on the corrugated surface of the human brain, or roll upon the blood vessels, diagnose or even treat various diseases. GaN LED, a highly efficient light emitting device, has been commercialized in LED TVs and in the lighting industry. Until now, it has been difficult to use this semic...

According to TrendForce’s research division LEDinside,  the price downtrend of warm white LED light bulbs for 40W and 60W replacement  (40W bulb and 60W bulb) persisted in August 2011. The ASP of LED bulb for 40W bulb took the most severe dip, plunging to US$ 23.5 with a 4% decline compared to July this year; the ASP of LED bulb for 60W bulb dropped to US$ 43.8, a 1% decrease compared to July this year. The European and American markets underwent the most drastic downturns.

The newest addition to the DPS website is a universal LED banner stand light. This LED light is noted as one of the most highly sought after models due to the light displays ability to fit nearly all banner stand models on the market. The owner of Digital Pre-Press Services, Inc. , Ara Abrahamian, was asked what prompted DPS to include the new LED light display kit and he responded “ One of the main reasons that we added this product is that Fire Marshals may actually ask the exhibitors to take down the halogen lights or turn them off; we heard this ha...

With European Union officials making efforts to reduce electricity consumption and to eliminate traditional, inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012, European LED chip and luminaire maker Optogan says that it has entered a new market for solid-state lighting (SSL) luminaires in Romania. The market for solid-state lighting luminaries has significant potential over the next 3–5 years, given the EU’s efforts to reduce energy consumption by up to 80%, says Optogan. “In the Balkan area, we estimate a €25–30m market for SSL luminaries by th...

Optogan, the technology leader in the manufacturing of light emitting diodes (LED) and Atlantic Elektronik, electronics distributor and provider of advanced system solutions signed a distribution agreement for the pan-European market in August. Aim of this new cooperation is the marketing of energy-efficient lighting solutions and the latest LED applications "Made in Germany". The focus is on the sales of white LEDs, chips, and additional components such as driver ICs. The focus of this new partnership is a perfect mutual assistance in the care of new pro...

Taiwan’s LED manufacturer EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., recently has ordered AIXTRON CRIUS II-L MOCVD system in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration,for the volume production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) Gallium Nitride (GaN) based blue LEDs. The system was ordered in the second quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011, will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service team in EpiLEDs’ state-of-the-art facility in Tainan, Taiwan. Steve Ku, President of EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., ...

Source inform that Aixtron, has slashed its sales guidance for 2011 and reduced its order backlog by €100 million, based on talks with its Asian customers revealed increasing macro-economic concerns. Previously, Aixtron’s target was  €800 million-€900 million.However, it now expects to post sales of between €600 million and €650 million. With the average cost of a piece of MOCVD kit around €2-2.5 million, the new guidance suggests that Aixtron has cut its shipment expectations for 2011 by as many as one hundreds units. It may has a...

Newark /element14, a leading multi-channel, high-service electronics distributor in the Americas and a business of global Premier Farnell, announced today that it has signed a franchise agreement with Fischer Elektronik to market its board-level heat sinks for common package semiconductors plus extruded and finger-shaped heat sinks to support LED design and industrial applications. This agreement extends an existing franchise with Farnell, Newark/element14's sister distributor in Europe. "Fischer is well known in Europe for developing innovative thermal management ...

DEKOR™, a Colorado based designer and innovator of LED lighting, deck and railing products, has solved under cabinet lighting dilemma with new LED under cabinet lights. LIGHT QUANTITY DEKOR™ LED Under Cabinet Lights not only meet but exceed the light level recommended by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America for critical task such as chopping and dicing. The lights are also dimmable. DEKOR™ LED Under Cabinet Lights have a wide angle and sufficient LEDs placed close together to provide a smooth, ev...