Industry News
Product Monday: Shuffle by Visa Lighting
Visa Lighting has introduced The Shuffle, offering a way to explore form, dimension, color and space using a variety of light sculptures. Interchangeable diffusers—Ellipse, Teardrop, Straight, Switch, Picture Frame and…
Lighting Controls Association Publishes Product Videos
The Lighting Controls Association has published nearly 20 product videos at its YouTube channel. These videos reveal some of the lighting control industry’s brightest product offerings in 2011. Shot at…
Legislative Scorched-Earth Policy on Incandescent Lamp Standards Likely to Hurt Lighting Manufacturers
This past week, a Republican rider related to light bulbs on the FY 2012 Omnibus funding bill imposes funding limitations on the Department of Energy (DOE) to enforce the light…
Model Lighting Ordinance
It is estimated that about 10,000 lighting ordinances are in effect in the United States alone. Many are easy to understand but difficult to comply with because they are often…
There’s An App For That
Lightsearch.com offers a page at its Lighting Resource Center which lists Mobile Apps for iPad, iPhone and Android mobile devices, including calculators, light meters, wireless lighting and DMX controllers, and…
How to Evaluate Light Sources
Electrical Contractor recently published an article I wrote about a simple methodology for evaluating light sources based on a basic series of questions: • What is the distribution of the…
Holophane Launches Night Time Demo
Acuity Brands, Inc. recently introduced the Night Time Demo by Holophane, which enables customers to increase their outdoor lighting knowledge by walking through a series of outdoor lighting environments and…
Product Monday: LED Roadway Luminaire and LED Retrofit Kit for NEMA Compliant Luminaires by Hubbell
Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Inc.’s Roadway RM LED Series delivers an LED roadway solution producing 6087 lumens in a 3G-rated traditional cobra-head design. The Roadway RF LED Retrofit Kit provides a…
Learn About Light And Color, LEDs
Excellent IES presentations on the topics of light and color, and LED lighting. IES Color 1 Lighting and Color Introduction IES Color 2 Understanding Color and Appearance IES Color 3…
More Than 3,900 Products Now Registered with Lighting Facts
There are now more than 3,900 products registered with Lighting Facts, along with more than 300 manufacturers. The Lighting Facts label provides an at-a-glance view of an LED product’s basic…
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