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TED Magazine Publishes Article on LED Lighting

Specifically, how to protect yourself and your clients from bad product. This article, which I authored for the October issue of TED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED, covers standards and testing, labeling and awards programs that can be used to find LED products that are most likely to provide reliable performance while saving [...]

LED + SSL, Products + Technology

Product Monday: Litecontrol’s L20 LED Luminaire

Litecontrol has unveiled the L20, the debut LED luminaire for Litecontrol, designed to functionally provide higher light output and efficacy than a similar linear fluorescent luminaire.

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Lighting Science Group Wins Bid to Relight Salt Lake City with LED Streetlights

Lighting Science Group’s PROLIFIC series LED street lights will soon line the streets of Salt Lake City, Utah. Compared with traditional high pressure sodium (HPS) street lights, the PROLIFIC LED series street lights are 50% more efficient, provide more uniform light distribution, increase light levels, and will save Salt Lake City tens of thousands of [...]

Codes + Standards, LED + SSL

NEMA Announces Global Lighting Forum Initiative for LED Technology

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), a member of the Global Lighting Forum (GLF), has announced an initiative to coordinate and promote LED (light emitting diode) technology on a global level. In order to accelerate the uptake of LED lighting, GLF held the inaugural meeting of its LED Working Group recently in Shenzhen, China. In [...]

LED + SSL, Products + Technology

TED Publishes Article on LED Modules

I authored an article for the October issues of TED Magazine, the official publication of NAED, covering developments in LED modules, which promise faster to market, easier to service, more durable LED luminaires. Read the article here.

LED + SSL, Products + Technology

Product Monday: Decorative LED Lighting by LSI

LSI’s three decorative pedestrian-scale area lighting products—the Enterprise, Intrepid and Lexington—are now available with LED lamping. Built around the company’s SmartTec intelligence platform, these decorative pedestrian area lights are designed specially to illuminate pathways and walkway areas. Click here to learn more about this product. Update: Bad link fixed!

Controls, LED + SSL

Controls Friday: Lutron Announces New Dimmer Designed and UL Listed for Controlling Dimmable CFLs, LEDs, Halogen and Incandescent Lamps

Lutron Electronicshas introduced two styles of dimmers, Diva/C•L and Credenza/C•L, that work not only with today’s most popular lamps such as incandescent and halogen, but also with dimmable CFLs and LEDs, which are expected to become even more widely adopted over the next 10 years. By installing one of these new dimmers, homeowners will be [...]

LED + SSL, Lighting Industry

Carmanah Unilaterally Terminates Lightech Merger

On November 4, LightNOW reported that Carmanah Technologies, a manufacturer of solar LED lighting and power systems for industrial applications, had entered into a process to acquire Lightech Electronic Industries Ltd., an Israeli manufacturer of power supplies for LED lighting, for $18.5 million. The agreement and plan of merger had been entered on September 21, [...]

LED + SSL, Research

NLPIP Publishes Addendum to Report on Streetlighting Technologies

In September, the National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) released a publication called Specifier Reports: Streetlights for Collector Roads, which provides objective performance information on street lighting technologies including HPS, induction, LED, and pulse start metal halide (PSMH). The streetlights selected for evaluation were recommended in 2009 [...]

LED + SSL, Products + Technology, Research

Jim Brodrick on Round 11 of CALiPER SSL Product Testing

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy t’s been a while since I’ve written about DOE’s CALiPER testing program, and the Round 11 Summary Report was published this week. As always, the results are worth noting. For those of you who don’t know, CALiPER tests a wide range of solid-state lighting products that [...]

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