by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 27, 2016 | Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Modular light engines, Optics
LED modules with a collimating reflector placed over each LED can enable luminaires such as downlights to be far thinner than the legacy form factor and thinner than most LED-based versions. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 26, 2016 | Horticultural, Industrial & Life Sciences, Industry News, LEDs & SSL Design, Packaged LEDS, Specialty SSL
Lumileds has delivered new high- and mid-power LEDs for horticultural lighting including a phosphor-converted purple LED that mixes the blue and red wavelengths critical for photosynthesis in a single emitter. The original version of this article can be found...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 22, 2016 | Driver ICs, Features, LEDs & SSL Design, Microcontrollers
Keith Szolusha explores various approaches to driving RGBW LEDs in dynamic color lighting applications and explains that a matrix approach can deliver the requisite performance with a relatively small number of ICs in the driver circuitry. The original version of this...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 22, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Features, Indoor Lighting, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Outdoor Lighting, Standards
Maury Wright questions Shirley Coyle, new IES president and president of Cree Canada, on the forward direction of the lighting organization and on key issues such as outdoor lighting preference, glare, flicker, and color metrics. The original version of this article...
by Commercial LED Lighting | Sep 20, 2016 | Architectural Lighting, Features, LEDs & SSL Design, Manufacturing Services & Testing, Smart Lighting IoT, Specialty SSL
LEDvance CEO Jes Munk Hansen notes the challenges in lighting markets and product cycles that have come along with the transition to LED sources, while explaining that navigating the changes will allow lighting manufacturers and practitioners to thrive. The original...
