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Marktech Introduces Efficient T5 LED Light Tubes
SSLDesign News Staff
December 19, 2008...Marktech Lighting has introduced its T5 LED light tubes for low profile lighting applications. According to Marktech Lighting Products, an LED supplier since 1982, its high output, energy-efficient T5 product was designed to ensure the highest of quality and designed to meet market demands.
The LED light tubes have a color rendering index of 80 and a slim design. The company says that the T5 is ideal for applications, including general or indirect lighting of display cases, wall washes and alcoves, in addition to backlighting of POP displays and vending machines.
The T5 light tube reportedly operates at 24Vdc and comes in both a low power, narrow angle 60 degree and a high power, wide angle 120 degree version. Company News Release,
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Cree Announces High-Volume Availability of Brightest Lighting-Class LEDs
LIGHTimes Staff
December 18, 2008...Leading LED maker, Cree, Inc., announced the high-volume availability of its XLamp XP-E LEDs. They reportedly have an output up to 122 lumens and are aptly descibed as lighting-class LEDs. Cree says that it hopes to further stimulating the LED lighting market and drive applications in outdoor and indoor general illumination, as well as portable and retail display lighting with the volume availability of the XLamp XP-E LEDs. Its XLamp XP-E LEDs which have a CCT of between 5,000K - 10,000K and come in a minimum R2 flux bin (114-122 lumens at 350 mA). Company News Release, SSL Design PageTwo members login for more. Guests can view membership details.
Senneca Falls Lights Up the Holidays with LEDs
SSLDesign News Staff
December 12, 2008...Senneca Falls, New York, a town thought to be the real setting for the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life", has teamed with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to make the holiday's greener with decorative LED holiday lights.
Frank Capra, the director of the classic movie, was known to have visited the town shortly before beginning shooting. Town visitors cannot help noticing the remarkable similarity between the bridges, main street, and homes of fictional Bedford Falls in the movie to those of Senneca Falls.
The town will be celebrating its connection to the movie in a weekend celebration with Karolyn Grimes, who played Zuzu Bailey in the film. There will be a parade, caroling, train rides with Santa, a Victorian Christmas Tea, wagon rides and a full slate of activities.
The city will use 5,400 commercial grade LED decorative light strings to light the Main Street and the steel truss bridge that looks exactly like the one where George Bailey met the angel, Clarence. The holiday lights will be used for 45 days, drawing only 2,800 kilowatts of power. They will save the village of Seneca Falls about $4,000 and over 26,000 kilowatt-hours annually. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Press Release
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Cree XLamp LEDs Light up Beijing Games & Dec. 11 Virtual Technical Event
LIGHTimes Staff
December 11, 2008... Cree is a very prominent LED producer. In fact, approximately 496,000 Cree XLamp LEDs in red, green and blue were used last summer to illuminate the exterior of the Water Cube in Beijing. Modules of 8, 12, or 16 LEDS were integrated into the steel structure of all four walls and the roof. Cree LEDs were also placed on the exterior of the Bird's Nest. The dynamic LED lighting helped to add drama to the opening and closing ceremonies. Cree LEDs are used in portable lighting, retail display and electronic signage. Cree notes that its design guide and latest technology products are available for same-day shipping at http://www.newark.com/cree.
Premier Farnell is putting on the $100K Live EDGE Electronic Design for the Global Environment, design challenge. The distributor brought together the EcoSphere community for its international competition and the global student and professional engineering community. Suppliers will give presentations followed by live chat discussions throughout the event. Attendees will be able to ask questions, download technical information, and network with colleagues. Free registration and a complete schedule of the December 11th event is available at http://www.live-edge.com/ecosphere. Two additional EcoSphere events are scheduled: "Communications" in February '09 and the Live EDGE Awards Ceremony and Technical Conference in April '09.
Cree News Release
Cree reports that it will be one of the 31 main suppliers featured at the "Energy Efficiency & Lighting" global technical learning and networking event, held virtually at Premier Farnell's Live EDGE EcoSphere on December 11, 2008 from 8am to midnight EST. Engineers and engineering students are invited learn about the same Cree technologies that were showcased at the Beijing Games at the online event.
Guth Lighting Releases Luxeon-based Wall Pack Fixtures
SSLDesign News Staff
December 11, 2008...Guth Lighting released the Sundowner LED family of wall pack fixtures. The fixtures utilize Luxeon LEDs from Philips Lumileds. According to Philips Lumileds, the Guth Lighting fixtures offer a 60-degree beam spread in a dark sky housing. The company says that previously LED fixtures were not able to make uniform light across the arc of light an LED wall fixture creates. With the help of the Luxeon LEDs, Guth Lighting's Wall Pack fixtures reportedly have 7 times the lifetime of conventional wall fixtures, while using 80 percent less electricity. Philips Lumileds News Release SSL Design PageTwo members login for more. Guests can view membership details.
NEC Electronics Introduces 8-bit Microcontroller Family for Lighting Applications
LIGHTimes Staff
December 11, 2008...NEC Electronics of Kawaski, Japan previously released what it said was the first microcontroller (MCU) with four-channel constant-current drive for LED lighting systems. This month, the company reportedly began shipment of 14 new 8-bit All Flash MCUs for energy-efficient lighting applications. NEC says that the constant current driver is designed specifically for fluorescent and LED lighting devices requiring low cost, high efficiency and intelligent control. Company News Release, SSL Design PageTwo members login for more. Guests can view membership details.
LedEngin Announces Production Availability of LuxSpot
SSLDesign News Staff
December 5, 2008...LEDEngin, In., of Santa Clara, California USA, has introduced its new LuxSpot LED lighting module. According to the company, the LuxSpot's multi-chip emitters exceed the performance of a 35W halogen equivalent. In addition, LEDEngin says that LuxSpot provides
60% savings in power consumption compared to a halogen source, and lasts more than 10 times longer. LEDEngin makes LuxSpot in warm, neutral, and daylight white, where CRI for warm white exceeds 90.
The company boasts that the module has impressed lighting designers, architects, and manufacturers with the quality and quantity of light delivered in a standard narrow flood beam. The company says that it is the quality and quantity of light from its narrow flood beam that make it ideal for a broad range of applications such as track and down lights, spot, and accent lighting. Company News Release,
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Light Up The World Doing Good Work
Tom Griffiths - Publisher
December 18, 2008...As we mention on our SSL Design home page introduction, almost 2 billion people in the world live without access to electricity. Many rely on kerosene fuel as a source of light in their homes, an expensive, inadequate and unhealthy solution (inhaling the toxic fumes can be equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for the people living in the house!). One organization doing great work to address this is the Light Up the World (www.lutw.org). Through partnerships with a variety of organizations across the globe, LUTW works to install solar powered LED lighting for people living in off-grid communities. We've written a bit about them from time to time, and in the spirit of the holiday season, we felt it appropriate to share a few of their program updates.
Project Profile: Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone Lighting for Education Project is an initiative that will enhance opportunities for education in the Koinadugu district of Sierra Leone. This project involves the installation of solar panels and 110 LED luminaires in schools and literacy centers, including a community library. In total, lighting systems will be installed in six buildings which house education programs in Kabala, the capital city of the Koinadugu district in Northwestern Sierra Leone.
This project is complementing CAUSE Canada's education programs in the community of Kabala. The schools and literacy centers that will receive the solar lighting systems will support the education of over 1200 school children in three schools, 50 teachers and community facilitators, 700 women taking part in an adult literacy project and over 1000 people who use the community library. Currently, all education programs take place during the day and end at around six o'clock in the evening once the sun goes down. As lighting becomes available, these spaces will be available after dark and to enhance the lives of the people of Kabala.
The Sierra Leone Lighting for Education Project is a joint initiative between Light Up The World, Philips, and CAUSE Canada. The Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA) and SunEnergy Power International are also partners in this project. Installations have already taken place in the community library, two schools and the literacy program's administration office. Installation work will continue on the final two buildings in 2009. As of the last update, LUTW still requires $15,000 CDN to complete the final phase for the Sierra Leone project. For further inquiries about the Sierra Leone project, please contact j.kohlhammer@lutw.org or visit the LUTW projects site.
LUTW Partner Profile: The Environmental Foundation for Africa
The Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA) was founded in 1992 in the United Kingdom, with a primary focus on Sierra Leone. The Solar Initiative is EFA's newest large scale project line and began in 2007. Their first major project was conducted in concert with the United Nation's High Council for Refugees and consisted of installations at five medical clinics and seven schools in areas with a high concentration of refugees, internally displaced persons and/or returnees in Liberia. Since then, EFA has continued to expand its photovoltaic program, conducting numerous other installations across Sierra Leone and 'greening' its own operations by going solar at its Lakka compound and the Tiwai Island site it jointly manages.
The installation of solar power systems has reportedly had a great impact on the areas they serve. The clinics, which each support communities of between 10,000 and 80,000 people, are now completely free from costly generator running costs and have vastly increased service. The schools can now operate classes at night, giving a much wider variety of people the choice of an education and training outside of working hours. EFA is also playing an instrumental role in LUTW's Sierra Leone project with contributing roles in project planning, solar system design and layout, procurement, system installation, and training the local community on system usage and maintenance. To learn more about EFA, please see their contact information below: Sierra Leone Website at www.efasl.org.uk
The Gift of Light
Recently, LUTW has developed a new giving program to help illuminate lives and let you connect a little better to where your gift is serving. There is still time to give the gift of light as part of the Light Up a Home for the Holidays campaign. What better way to reflect the season than to bring modern lighting to a family in the developing world that has never before had access to electricity. A gift of $250 CDN, enables LUTW to provide a solar-powered LED lighting system to a family in need. In return, you or the person whom you have donated on behalf of, will receive a card with details about the people served by your generosity, including the GPS coordinates of their location. Gifts can be made online through their secure website at the program link above. Pass the promise of LED lighting along! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!
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