LED + SSL

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Emergency Lighting Section has launched its Premium Exit Sign Program, which establishes standards for and encourages the use of high-performance exit signage. Unlike other NEMA Premium programs, this effort does not focus strictly on energy efficiency. Instead, the goal of the NEMA Premium Exit Sign Program is to increase [...]

The Department of Energy has published the summary report from the 2011 DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Workshop, held February 1–3 in San Diego, California. A PDF copy of the report may be downloaded here. Three hundred and fifty participants joined DOE to share perspectives on “Transformations in Lighting,” including representatives from industry, academia, research [...]

Amerlux has announced a new 10-year warranty that began applying to the company’s LED luminaires starting February 1, 2011, demonstrating strong confidence. Click here to contact your Amerlux sales representative and request a warranty document detailing complete information, terms and conditions.

The U.S. chapter of the International Commission on Illumination (Commission International de l’Eclarage) – CIE/USA is hosting a series of seminars on solid-state lighting. The seminars begin at 7:00AM, May 19, 2011 at the Philadelphia Airport Courtyard Hotel (Philadelphia, PA), the last day of LIGHTFAIR, which is being held in the same city May 17-19. [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I have finally completed the long awaited (by my publisher) update to The Lighting Management Handbook, which came out in 1994, with this 300-page book about redesigning existing lighting systems: Lighting Redesign for Existing Buildings. Because light is used to see but cannot be seen, it is often overlooked by [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy A number of … readers have written regarding a recent study by researchers at the University of California campuses in Irvine and Davis, which reported the presence of hazardous materials in some LED products. Some statements made by the authors have drawn a great deal of media [...]

As Global 100 companies continue to move manufacturing, management functions and jobs overseas, CeeLite Technologies, LLC feels that despite lower foreign labor costs, the reputed benefits of manufacturing in Asia didn’t stack up in their highly technical marketplace. Once made in Taiwan, the highly acclaimed Light Emitting Capacitor (LEC) technology manufactured by CeeLite Technologies is [...]

Lighting Science Group Corporation recently notified the Department of Energy that it has developed with Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (LPI) a highly efficient, high output and low cost 60W replacement LED lamp, and will submit it for testing to win the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. The bulb design is based on patented [...]

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published two new solid state lighting standards: • NEMA SSL 1-2010 Electronic Drivers for LED Devices, Arrays, or Systems • NEMA SSL 6-2010 Solid State Lighting for Incandescent Replacement—Dimming With these publications, NEMA establishes harmonized requirements and expectations for solid state lighting (SSL). Both are directed toward designers, [...]