LED + SSL

ILLUMRA, a manufacturer of self-powered, battery-free, wireless lighting and HVAC controls, recently won “Best Dimming or Control” at The LED Show in Las Vegas. A panel of LED experts reviewed the dimmer and announced the award on August 27, 2010. The constant voltage dimmer is available in a wireless or wired configuration that responds to [...]

Visit Hanley Wood University and check out these five courses related to lighting: * Daylight Harvesting or Controlling Electric Light in Response to Daylight * Introduction to Tubular Daylighting Devices * LED Lighting Education for Specifiers * Lighting for Learning: Best Practices for Classroom Lighting * What is the Big Deal with LED Lighting? How [...]

Cooper Lighting was recently chosen as a winner in Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine’s 2010 Product of the Year competition. The annual reader-choice Product of the Year awards were created to provide information on the top new products in the field, with readers choosing Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winners in ten categories. Cooper Lighting’s Halo 900 [...]

The Home Depot has announced availability of a series of ECOSMART LED replacement lamps. Built by Lighting Science Group, the ECOSMART LED line includes lamps in the common A19, PAR38, PAR30, PAR20, MR16, and G25 types, ranging in retail price from $18.97 for an A19 and MR16 to $44.97 for a PAR38. All of the [...]

For plants to grow well in greenhouses, they need the right temperature and also the right light. Light in the deep red spectrum plays an important role in plant growth because the absorption of chlorophyll in this red range is very high. OSRAM SYLVANIA’s Golden DRAGON Plus and OSLON SSL now provide this deep red [...]

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) has announced the date for its fifth annual program on LED technology: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Located between 32nd and 33rd Streets (across from Madison Square Garden). Exhibit hours are from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST. [...]

Juno has unveiled Cylindra LED Series track luminaires, available in high- and medium-lumen packages to offer performance similar to 75W PAR30 and 50W MR16 halogen luminaires, respectively, while consuming less than one-third of the energy. Available in 3000K and 4100K color temperatures, minimum 80 CRI, three beam spreads, integral switch, and white, black or silver [...]

Lithonia Lighting received an award for best interior commercial product for the RTLED luminaire from theLEDshow, a mini-convention and lighting industry consortium focused on marketing and promoting LED and solid-state lighting., held in August 2010 The award honors LED lighting that is innovative, provides a high-quality of light output and eliminates cumbersome installation processes. First [...]

The eighth annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition awarded the best-designed energy-efficient lighting products in the residential market. In addition to the expansion of the solid-state lighting (SSL) competition to include replacement lamps, 2010 featured a brand new lighting controls competition. Lighting for Tomorrow challenged manufacturers to continue to improve their design of SSL fixtures and [...]