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Product Monday: LED Rope Lighting by LEDtronics
LEDtronics’ LED Rope Light offers an energy-efficient replacement for neon sign lights, promising freedom from flicker, frequent burnouts, and broken glass that can occur with neon. The RNLD02SM series’ offers…
NLB TV: Metrics Used for Humancentric Lighting
There are two important, sometimes competing, metrics regarding Humancentric Lighting: the Equivalent Melanopic Lux (EML) and Circadian Stimulus (CS). These metrics were discussed by a panel of experts convened at…
Daylighting Begins Outside
It sounds obvious, but it isn’t. The fact is daylighting designs often assume a uniform “white canvas” of exterior daylight to work with, although numerous factors affect daylight availability. This…
The Great Lighting Debate
This year’s Strategies in Light featured a lively debate between noted experts in the field, tackling subjects ranging from controls to color tuning. Experts including Naomi Miller, Jim Benya, Clifton…
Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS
Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy of the Slow Mo Guys, a British science and technology entertainment web series dedicated to filming things in extreme slow motion, present the transmission of…
Product Monday: Contemporary Outdoor Luminaires by Cyclone
Cyclone’s Trika family offers post-top, side-mount, bollard, and wall-mount luminaires for outdoor spaces. The Trika family has a contemporary aesthetic that is uniform throughout the family. The modern, clean design…
Get a Grip on Lighting Talks to the “Father of LiFi”
Harald Haas coined the phrase “LiFi” in 2011, and now he’s telling us it’s ready to enter version 2.0. He recently joined the Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast from…
ConstructConnect: U.S. Construction Spending to Approach $1.5 Trillion by 2021
Driven by mega projects, the value of U.S. new construction will rise to $1.45 trillion by 2021, according to a new forecast by ConstructConnect. The annual average growth rate for…
What Does Brexit Mean for Lighting Designers?
After more than two years of negotiations, the UK government has yet to ratify a Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union, raising the probability of either a “no deal Brexit”…
David Shiller on the Possibility of China Weaponizing Rare Earth Metals
As previously reported in LightNOW, China has signaled that it may use its near monopoly on rare earths–used in a wide variety of products including fluorescent lamps and LED lighting–as…
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