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City of Tulsa Installs High Quality, Energy Efficient LED Street Lighting in Historic Brady District

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:59:42 +0800

Amerlux and Bridgelux Enable New Street Lighting Solutions Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for most of the 20th Century as the Oil Capital of the World, is now leading the way with new energy efficient alternatives. Thanks to a highly successful collaboration between the City of Tulsa, U.S.-based luminaire manufacturer, Amerlux, and U.S.-based lightsource manufacturer, Bridgelux, modern, energy-efficient LED lighting are part of the restoration of Tulsa’s historic Brady district. About 200 Amerlux outdoor luminaires based on Bridgelux LED arrays a...

PhotonStar filmed for brand new Channel 4 series, Home of the Future, which starts February 12th, 7.00pm on Channel 4

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:35:58 +0800

PhotonStar’s Biodynamic Lighting, Architectural LED luminaire and EcoStar LED luminaire products were filmed for brand new Channel 4 series, Home of the Future, which starts February 12th, 7.00pm on Channel 4. What happens if you ask a normal family to boldly go where no-one has gone before - to live in the future? This five-part Channel 4 series, co-funded by one of the UK’s leading energy companies E.ON, and produced by Twofour, transforms the lives of a family, filling their home from top-to-bottom with futuristic technology and gadgets. As we...

Introducing The Diva2™ from Feelux

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:16:58 +0800

A little light that packs a big punch Feelux’s Diva2 is a high power, small profile linear LED luminaire designed to provide an LED alternative to fluorescent illumination effects in under cabinet millwork and display for retail, residential or architectural applications. Diva2 is available in nominal 8”, 11”, 2’ and 2.75’ standard lengths and provides continuous illumination with no hot spots of up to 55W in a single row. This eco-friendly luminaire features 65lm/W and is available in three color temperatures and a lamp life of over 30,000...

Marvell’s Breakthrough Deep Dimming LED Driver IC

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:59:30 +0800

Accelerates Mass Adoption of Energy Efficient LED Retrofit Bulbs Marvell’s 88EM8183 LED Driver IC, Tested for Dimmer Compatibility by Lighting Control Leader Lutron, Offers Advanced Deep Dimming Technology, the Highest Dimmer Compatibility in the Industry, and Cuts Component Counts in Half Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) today announced the Marvell® 88EM8183 deep dimming single-stage AC/DC LED driver integrated circuit (IC). The 88EM8183 LED driver IC delivers the highest dimmer compatibility and lowest component count in t...

Power Integrations Introduces New LED Driver Reference Design

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:56:40 +0800

Power Integrations has introduced new LED driver reference design (DER-286) for a 30 W LED tube replacement ballast power supply capable of achieving industry-leading efficiency levels of over 90% across a wide input-voltage range while meeting worldwide requirements for power factor (PF) and total harmonic distortion (THD). According to the company, the DER-286 is based on the LNK419EG, a member of Power Integrations’ LinkSwitch™-PH family of ICs. LinkSwitch-PH devices combine a controller and 725 V MOSFET to dramatically reduce th...

SemiLEDs Ordered Veeco’s MOCVD System for High Volume LED Production

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:40:08 +0800

SemiLEDs has placed an order from Veeco’s TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) gallium nitride (GaN) MOCVD System for high-volume production of high brightness LEDs at its Taiwanese manufacturing facility. Chuong A. Tran, Ph.D., President, Chief Operating Officer, of SemiLEDs commented, "We have placed Veeco's K465i system into our production facility in Taiwan. In addition to their proven MOCVD technology, Veeco's commitment to providing best-in-class LED manufacturing equipment, as well as enhanced local support with their technolog...

Energy Focus Gets a Great Start with $2.5 million Contracts in LED Lighting

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:29:39 +0800

Recently, Energy Focus, Inc. has awarded several additional lighting retrofit contracts for 2012 totaling $2.5 million, which including retrofits to upgrade the lighting of a Fortune 500 manufacturing facility in the United States, a University in the Midwest as well as a number of school systems in the Southeastern United States. According to the company’s CEO Joseph Kaveski,, "I'm especially pleased to report the award of these new contracts. Our Solutions business is off to a great start in 2012, and we continue to see an increase in the amount of E...

Miniature Bayonet Base, Sunlight-Visible 6/7 LED Cluster Bulbs Offer Faster Turn-On, More Uniform Illumination than Replaced Filament Lamps

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:13:25 +0800

LEDtronics®, Inc., the industry’s most innovative LED lamp manufacturer since 1983, announces a family of sunlight-visible, bayonet-base 6/7 LED cluster lamps as replacement for incandescent T3¼ miniature bulbs whose critical status indication is the determining factor and relamping costs are a major consideration. The LEDtronics LED lamps feature a 90% reduction in power consumption (very low power draw of 0.8-0.91 watts, depending on the LED light color) and directly replace numbers including 6MB, 44, 47, 755 (5/6V) 12MB, 756 (12/14V), 24MB ...

CAO Group, Inc. Releases Enhanced Luxembright® Fire Series LED Lighting System for Signage and Lighting Applications.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:56:44 +0800

CAO Group, Inc. (CAO), a leading design and manufacturer of LED signage and lighting products, announces the newly enhanced Luxembright ® LED Channel Letter Illumination system, Fire SeriesTM. The new Fire Series includes three different sizes of LED modules - Flare™, Blaze®, and Inferno® - and each module is intended for a different size of channel letter installation. The Flare™ product line is intended for small size channel letters, Blaze® is for middle size channel letters, and the Inferno® is intended for large ...

New Cree LED Platform Transforms What’s Possible with LED Performance and Pricing

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:53:34 +0800

XLamp® XT-E White Designed to Accelerate LED Adoption and Lower System Cost Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announced a breakthrough in LED technology that completely redefines the lighting industry and erases old assumptions about up-front LED cost and performance. The Cree XLamp® XT-E White LED delivers twice the lumens-per-dollar of other LEDs and features the highest performance and efficacy in the industry. Based on a new silicon carbide technology platform, the XT-E LED and the recently released XB-D LED represent a dramatic ...