ElectraLED	ElectraLED	GE	Phillips	Hussmann	Hussmann	Anthony	NuaLite
		Eclipse™ ELS	Eclipse™ ELX	IMMERSION		ECOSHINE LED	ECOSHINE LED	Optimax2	Porto series
OPTIONS	Color Temperature Available	3000K, 3500K 4000K, 4500K, 5000K	3000K, 3500K 4000K, 4500K, 5000K	3500K, 4100K, 5000K	4200K, 5000K	4100 K	4100 K	3500, 4100, 5000K CCT	3500K, 4200K, 5250K
	Lengths Available (Feet)	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	5, 6	5ft and 6ft	60"	60"	2, 3, 4, 5, 6'	28", 32", 40", 59", 67", 71"
LISTINGS	UL Listed	E326603	E326603	YES	Provide E File #	44BR - Provide Listing Agency	Provide E File #	Provide Listing Category - Must be IFDR if UL is Listing Agency	UL E256556
	NSF Listed Std 2 Food Contact	4H380, 4H381	4H380, 4H381	YES	Provide Facility File # & Listing Document	Provide Facility File # & Listing Document	Provide Facility File # & Listing Document	Provide Facility File # & Listing Document	Provide Project Number and/or NSF Quotation #
DIMMING (built-in)	Smart Dimming	Yes, Built-in	Yes, Built-in	NO	No	Requires Extra Equipment	Requires Extra Equipment	Requires Extra Equipment	YES
	Dimming Level/Ramp Time Programable	Yes	Yes	NO	No	Dim to 20% of rated power /No	Dim to 20% of rated power /No	Requires Extra Equipment	YES/ No ramp adjust
	Available with No Dimming	Yes	Yes	YES	Yes	Standard	Standard	Yes	YES
	Energy Management System (EMS)	Yes 0-10V Compatible (Built-in)	Yes 0-10V Compatible (Built-in)	NO	No	No	No	No	No
WATTAGE (includes Power Supply Efficiency of 85%)	Wattage Center Stick	22 watts	15 watts	29	28.6	32	16W	34	26W
	Wattage End Stick	11 watts	15 watts	14.5	14.3	16	8 W	34	17.5W
	5-Door Case Wattage	110 watts	90 watts	145	143w		80W	204	139W
	4-Door Case Wattage	88 watts	75 watts	116	115w		64W	170	113W
	3-Door Case Wattage	66 watts	60 watts	87	81w		48W	136	87W
	2-Door Case Wattage	44 watts	45 watts	58	58.8w		32W	102	61W
LIGHT OUTPUT	Center Stick Total Lumens	1,590 Lumens	1,350 Lumens	1,500	950 Lumens	1207	745	1200	800 lms per LM-79
	End Stick Total Lumens	795 Lumens	930 Lumens	750	583 Lumens	605	378	1200	539 lms per LM-79
	Lumens Per Watt (LED)	72.27	58.7	51.72	39.58	44.7	46.56	35.29	30.76
	Color Rendering Index (CRI)	87	87	70 (low CRI Nichia)	72	75	77	75	> 80

The LM-79 and LM-80 protocols were created by the Department of Energy’s CALiPER program in an attempt to develop uniform testing standards for LED lighting. The program was started because reliable data about the efficiency of LED products was not available. LM-79 and LM-80 provide for standardized testing that can provide such data. LM-79 was developed by the National Institute of Standards in conjunction with DOE.

 In practical terms this means that any laboratory or facility in the US that is testing LED lighting should be using LM-79 and LM-80. It also means that manufacturers and suppliers will have to have LED equipment tested by an LM-79 certified laboratory. A list of such laboratories has been posted here:

 http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/test_labs.html#laboratories_qualified

 It also means that any product will have to receive LM-79 or LM-80 testing in order to receive designation as an Energy Efficient Lighting Product by DOE. Products that do not receive this testing will not be able to get this certification.

 Something else to be aware of is that the federal government is developing further standards for LED lighting products. Full details of the new standards are not available but they are intended to address deficiencies with LM-79. 

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MR16 and MR11are standard formats for halogen multifaceted reflector light bulbs made by a variety of manufacturers. MR16 lamps are regularly used in place of standard incandescent light bulbs for applications including residential lighting and retail lighting, while MR11 ones are used in specialty applications. MR16 lamps were originally designed for use in slide projectors. They are well suited to a variety of applications that require directional lighting of low to medium intensity, such as track lighting, recessed ceiling lights, desk lamps, pendant fixtures, landscape lighting, retail display lighting and bicycle headlights. Read More

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USA - Cree is raising the standard for half-Watt LED devices with the commercial availability of its XLamp® ML-E LED. The lighting-class XLamp ML-E provides lighting designers with a compact and cost-effective solution for distributed LED arrays that can enable them to meet the stringent U.S.Environmental Protection Agency ENERGY STAR® performance criteria. Read More

Recently ABC contacted us for LED lighting to light up the set of Live with Regis and Kelly. The next time you turn on Live with Regis & Kelly take a look at the new lighting all over the new set. You can also view it in the beginning of the video down below.

   

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GOQLED warranties each GOQLED Module to be free from defects in materials and workmanship, and to operate from the date of purchase for the listed time periods. If a GOQLED Module fails to operate for the specified warranty period, GOQLED will provide a free replacement component in accordance with the Terms and Conditions set forth. Read More

USA - Bridgelux announced the commercial availability of its ES and award-winning RS LED Array products in a neutral white color temperature (4100K).

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USA - Digital Lumens has launched a new energy savings calculator. The Calculator helps facility managers determine energy costs and potential savings of various lighting alternatives over five years. They enter data about their facility and the calculator provides customized projections of the energy costs of the installed lighting vs. alternatives, including the Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System.

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China - Future Lighting Solutions announced the completion of a bridge lighting project in the Chinese city of Harbin utilizing 1,288 linear floodlights containing 12,000 LUXEON® Rebel LEDs. Read More

USA - LUXEON Rebel PC Amber is establishing new performance benchmarks for its phosphor converted amber LED that are proving important not only for automotive and specialty markets but for the illumination market as well. Hot/Cold factor, which indicates how much light is delivered at operating conditions as opposed to test conditions, has increased 12% at 80C. Lumens and lumens per watt (efficacy) performance exceed that of all other amber power LEDs. Read More

USA - Cree is taking another leadership position in the LED industry with the addition of the industry’s smallest warm and neutral bins to its award-winning multichip XLamp® MP-L and MC-E EasyWhite™ LEDs. Read More

USA - Philips is targeting both outdoor applications such as streets, roadways, and tunnels, and industrial high- and low-bay applications with the Luxeon Rebel ES. The LEDs are available with a choice of 4100K and 5650k color correlated temperatures. Read More

USA - Cree has introduced bins based on two-step MacAdam ellipses for its multi-chip XLamp MP-L and MC-E EasyWhite LEDs in warm and neutral color temperatures of 2700 K, 3000 K, 3500 K, and 4000 K. Read More

USA - Philips Lumileds has shipped its billionth LUXEON power LED in the 2nd quarter of 2010. The company's capacity and infrastructure investments over the last several years have enabled it to meet customer needs for high volumes of products, with the company delivering over 750 million LUXEON power LEDs in the past two years to automotive, illumination and consumer electronics customers. Read More

Tawian’s LED industry has weathered the global economic storm, and it is now recovering fast thanks to increased deployment of this chip in street lighting and display backlights. The Photonic Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA) details the transformation. Read More

Aeon Lighting Technology (ALT), a leading global manufacturer of high power LED lighting products, will showcase its 100% mercury-free, 90% energy-saving high power LED lighting product series in Photonics Festival in Taiwan, the biggest integrated photonics event in Asia, from June 9 to 11, 2010. Read More

1. 1. 90% energy savings
   • - Less power required for comparable brightness
2. 2. 100% mercury-free
   • - Will not leak poisonous gasses
   • - Will not flicker
3. 3. Cleaner, Greener, Environmentally Friendly science
   • - Less power consumed
   • - No polutants leaking into environment
4. 4. Much more versatile than neon/incandescent signs
   • - Allows you to customize hundreds of messages in text
   • - Can include graphics, flashing colors, changing colors, and animated objects
   • - Messages can be saved and reused
5. 5. Brighter signs
   • - More noticable
   • - More clarity and visibility in sunlight
6. 6. More Durable
   • - Up to 100,000 hours of usage
   • - No glass tubes
   • - Increased lifetime
7. 7. Much lighter weight components
   • - Lower cost transportation
   • - Easier installation
8. 8. Great for indoor/window/outdoor usage
9. 9. More color options available
10. 10. More affordable than comparable neon signs
    • - Longer Life
    • - Less power consumed
    • - Lower transportation costs
    • - Does not require refilling gasses
    • - Easier to maintain and clean

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ALT LED – Aeon Lighting Tech. Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan)
Leading LED Lighting manufacturer


With strong research and development capabilities and a focus on precision and quality, ALT is leading the field in the high power LED lighting industry. ALT pulled in as the winner of the M-Technology award in 2009 and followed it up in 2010 as the winner of the iF Product Design Award. Aeon Lighting has over 100 patents in Germany, Japan, USA, Taiwan, and Australia. Alt is dedicated to ISO 9001 quality manufacturing and has fully integrated the CREE, Philips Lumileds, Bridgelux, Lustrous, and Epistar chipsets.

Philosophy
- Innovation
- Professional Design
- Excellent Service
- The Pursuit of Perfection
- Quality Control

Core Competency
- R&D Team
- Professional Certification
- Marketing Team
- Manufacturing
- High-End Quality
- Patent Licensing
- Vertical Integration

Business Goal
- World’s leading Led lighting manufacturer specializing in R&D
- LED Product Portfolio Diversification
- Offering a Global Service
- Professional Management Team
- Implementing Greener Technologies in every aspect of the business we deal in.

Business Focus
- LED Lighting product design
- LED Lighting product manufacture
- LED Lighting product OEM/ODM
- LED Lighting project simulation
- LED Lighting product sales
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- Museum
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Labels Will Emphasize Lumens, Not Watts, as a Measure of Bulb Brightness



Starting in mid-2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced today, consumers shopping for light bulbs will notice new labeling on packaging designed to help them choose among the different types of bulbs on the market – traditional incandescent bulbs, and newer high-efficiency compact fluorescent (CFL) and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. The new labels will enable consumers to save money by selecting the most efficient bulbs that best fit their lighting needs.

Under direction from Congress to re-examine the current labels, the FTC is announcing a final rule that will require the new labels on light bulb packages. For the first time, the label on the front of the package will emphasize the bulbs’ brightness as measured in lumens, rather than a measurement of watts. The new front-of-package labels also will include the estimated yearly energy cost for the particular type of bulb.

While watt measurements are familiar to consumers and have been featured on the front of light bulb packages for decades, watts are a measurement of energy use, not brightness. As a result, reliance on watt measurements alone make it difficult for consumers to compare traditional incandescent bulbs to more efficient bulbs, such as compact fluorescents. A compact fluorescent bulb may be able to produce the same amount of brightness as a traditional incandescent bulb, while using significantly less energy, or watts. New energy standards mandated by Congress will effectively phase out traditional low-efficiency incandescent bulbs from the U.S. market over the next few years. The new labels that focus on brightness in lumens will help consumers make purchasing decisions as they transition to more energy-efficient types of bulbs.

Under the new rule, the back of each package of light bulbs will have a “Lighting Facts” label modeled after the “Nutrition Facts” label that is currently on food packages. The Lighting Facts label will provide information about:

brightness; energy cost; the bulb’s life expectancy; light appearance (for example, if the bulb provides “warm” or “cool” light); wattage (the amount of energy the bulb uses); and whether the bulb contains mercury. The bulb’s brightness, measured in lumens, and a disclosure for bulbs containing mercury, also will be printed on each bulb.

The new labeling requirements become effective one year from the date they are issued. The FTC also is seeking public comments on several issues that might be relevant to future changes to light bulb labeling requirements, such as whether new labeling requirements should be applied to candelabra bulbs.

Information on how to submit public comments can be found in a Federal Register notice that will be issued by the FTC and is available at: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2010/06/P084206lamplabeling.pdf. The vote approving the Federal Register notice was 5-0. The FTC will have more detailed information and consumer education available about the new labels early next year.

Copies of the Federal Register notice are available from the FTC’s Web site at http://www.ftc.gov and from the FTC’s Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, click: http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.shtm or call 1-877-382-4357. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,800 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. For free information on a variety of consumer topics, click http://ftc.gov/bcp/consumer.shtm.

MEDIA CONTACT: Mitchell Katz Office of Public Affairs 202-326-2161

STAFF CONTACT: Hampton Newsome, Bureau of Consumer Protection 202-326-2889

(FTC File No. P084206) (Light Bulbs.final.wpd)

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University of Glasgow- Researchers are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years. Read More

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Philip C. Curtis- This holiday season the consumer market was a-buzz with the relatively new holiday lighting product, LED Christmas lights. The new lighting technology boasted energy savings of over 95% and lamp life of 50,000 hours or more. The consumer market embraced this new technology and now many people are looking for LEDs suitable for other applications. Read More

Michael Kanellos- The city, which has been experimenting with several green technologies and trying to encourage green companies to locate there, will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of replacing 250-watt high pressure sodium "Cobra-head" street lights with LED street lights, which consume far less energy. The city estimates it could save up to $500,000 a year in utility bills by inserting LEDs in 5,000 street lights alone. Read More

Taiwan - Expanding Everlight's Lighting Series component portfolio, Everlight Electronics introduces another high power, high brightness LED package, the "Shwo" Series - our powerful, bright and economic (superb $/lm) LED series in a compact ceramic package. Read More

USA - Street lighting will never be the same as Schréder Lighting USA deploys "The Right Light" by launching the OWLET Nightshift, a new wireless control system for managing street lighting in urban environments. Schréder Lighting USA will exhibit its newest products at Lightfair International 2010, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Read More

USA - Lemnis Lighting, the leader in LED lighting innovations, announced the launch of six new bulbs including the Pharox 500, a warm white retrofit for an incandescent bulb, emitting 500 lumens, making it the brightest dimmable LED retrofit for sale on the market. Read More

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USA - Applied Materialslaunched its Applied SmartFactory™ MES* software – an affordable, out-of-the-box, factory automation solution to track and streamline the flow of materials throughout a manufacturing facility. Read More

USA - Global Lighting Technologies has combined its edge-lit LED light guide technology with its mass production capabilities to create a new troffer downlight that is slim, light, efficient, and can be cost effectively manufactured in high volumes. Read More

China - With national attention on the LED industry, Himfr.com analyzes the development of LED precision stent techniques and finds trends pointing in the following direction: Read More

USA - LCD backlit power specialist Endicott Research Group is offering two new LED driver boards that provide compact, economical solutions to OEM panel designers looking to get the maximum performance out of their displays. Read More

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USA - Cypress Semiconductor introduced new AC-DC digital power controllers for LED lighting. The CY8CLEDAC01/02 controllers offer a cost-effective solution for both non-dimmable and dimmable LED lighting, delivering high efficiency while meeting EnergyStar requirements. Read More

Germany – Royal Philips Electronics is underlining its global leadership in lighting by substantially broadening its portfolio of LED-based lighting solutions which enhance the lives of people at home and in cities. Read More

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Japan - Japan's Fujifilm plans to enter the market for LED lighting materials with a new kind of light diffusing film which is thinner and offers higher illumination intensity than products now available. Read More

Taiwan - With the increased awareness of global warming, new lighting technology must satisfy some minimum requirements before it can be readily adopted - conform to environmental initiatives, reduce energy costs, and offer brighter and higher efficiency solutions compared to what is being used today. Retrofits with LED technology are an excellent solution to these increasing requirements for a Green world. Read More

USA - Clare released the CPC9909 High-Voltage HB LED driver. The CPC9909 can drive from a few to hundreds of HB LEDs in-series and/or parallel combinations in a constant peak-current control topology. Read More

UK - The ground-breaking patented lens allows for LED-emitted light to be projected in all directions, effectively converting a point source of light (the LED package) into an envelope of light – something the basic structure of medium to high power LEDs has prevented thus far. Read More

USA - LCD backlight power specialist Endicott Research Group (ERG) has introduced a new LED driver that can simultaneously and efficiently power up to 8 strings of high brightness LEDs (HBLEDs). Read More

Germany - OSRAM's new Dulux Intelligent Dim Lamps with Leditron technology are the right choice for premium applications such as hotels or restaurants, offices or in the home. In modern systems for the control and dimming of compact fluorescent lamps and LED lamps, they are immediately ready for use without addressing. Read More

USA - The outdoor installation market now has the best combination of powerful, compact and energy-efficient LED light fixtures to date – the new Exterior 400 Range from Martin Professional. No matter the application - long or short throw, cold or warm white, dynamic or static color - the Exterior 400 Range does it all. Read More

ERG Lighting, a new Division of Endicott Research Group has introduced the eDriver family of LED power supplies for maximum efficiency in a range of solid state lighting (SSL) applications. Read More

Ingress Protection Ratings

IP60	No protection.
IP61	Protected against vertically falling drops of water e.g. condensation.
IP62	Protected against direct sprays of water up to15° from the vertical.
IP63	Protected against direct sprays of water up to60° from the vertical.
IP64	Protected against water sprayed from all directions.
IP65	Protected against low pressure jets of water from all directions.
IP66	Protected against high pressure jets of water from all directions.
IP67	Protected against the temporary immersion.
IP68	Protected against prolonged immersion.

Level of protection against solid objects		Level of protection against liquid objects
0	No Protection	0	No Protection
1	Protected down to 50mm	1	Protected against falling drops of water
2	Protected down to 12mm	2	Protected against direct sprays up to 15 degrees
3	Protected down to 2.5mm	3	Protected against direct sprays up to 60 degrees
4	Protected down to 1mm	4	Protected from water spray from all directions
5	Protected against dust, limited ingress	5	Protected against low pressure jets of water
6	Totally protected against dust	6	Protection against low pressure jets of water, limited ingress permitted
		7	Protected against immersion between 6" and 3'
		8	Protected against long period of immersion under pressure

In the new version of the Audi A8 light emitting diodes from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (www.osram-os.com) are responsible for the dipped and full beams as well as for other specific lighting functions. Apart from their efficiency, an excellent argument for LEDs is their long life, which exceeds that of the vehicle. Plus, with light similar to daylight they improve motorists’ safety. Read More

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Intematix announced the introduction of the DL6 solid state retrofit downlight, designed for installation in standard 6-inch recessed can fixtures. The announcement is accompanied by the news that the new DL6 has been awarded Energy Star® certification, and is in compliance with California's Title 24 energy efficiency code. Read More

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"Lighting design firm Available Light collaborated with Philips Color Kinetics on the design, integration and programming that led to the installation of over 25 ColorReach Powercore high-performance LED floodlights on the crown of Boston's Prudential Center. These architectural floodlights are capable of natively generating millions of colors without the need for gels or filters. Philips says the color scheme can be changed on the fly to support local events, whether to cheer on a local sports team, celebrate holidays, or reflect the brand colors of individual organizations to promote their events." Read More

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Exerpted from http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/quantum-dots-enhance-led-lighting/0 BY Neil Savage // December 2009


9 December 2009—The next big thing in solid-state lighting may be exceedingly tiny—the quantum dot. Researchers from around the world gathered at the Materials Research Society fall meeting in Boston last week to discuss the progress they're making in using quantum dots to enhance the color and efficiency of light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

Quantum dots are nanometer-size bits of semiconductor material, such as cadmium selenide, that fluoresce when excited by photons or electrons. By choosing a certain material and a certain size, researchers can precisely tune the wavelength of light emitted. In general, a dot that's 2 nanometers in diameter emits blue light, a 4-nm dot emits green, and a 6-nm dot emits red.

Seth Coe-Sullivan, chief technology officer of QD Vision, a Watertown, Mass., start-up working on quantum dots for use in lighting and displays, says the advantage of quantum dots lies in the ability to pick a desired color without losing efficiency. Today's white-light LEDs consist of a blue-emitting LED coated with a phosphor that is excited by the LED and emits a yellow or orange light. The combination of blue and yellow produces a cold white light lacking in red photons, so human skin, among other things, looks unnatural under it. There are phosphors that can produce color closer to that of an incandescent light, but they come with a 30 percent drop-off in energy efficiency.

By contrast, Coe-Sullivan says, QD Vision has produced an optic coated with a thin film of quantum dots and fits over a blue LED lamp. With the optic, the lamp produces light with a color temperature of 2700 kelvins—about the same as that of an incandescent bulb. It has a color-rendering index (a measure of how "natural" colors appear under it) of 90, compared with 95 for an incandescent bulb and less than 75 for most white LEDs. It also produces 65 lumens per watt, a vast improvement over the 15 lm/W of incandescent bulbs and double the efficiency of compact fluorescent bulbs. QD Vision has started shipping that optic to two lighting manufacturers; the lamps should be on store shelves by January.

"The main benefit of the quantum dot is you're able to get a really efficient lightbulb with a high-quality color rendering index," says Vladimir Bulovic, a professor of electrical engineering and leader of the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory at MIT. He says the QD Vision optic represents the first practical optoelectronic device based on this technology. Coe-Sullivan did his Ph.D. work in Bulovic's lab, and Bulovic is a founder of QD Vision.

Bulovic and other researchers are working on creating quantum-dot LEDs that are electrically pumped, thus eliminating the need for a gallium-nitride LED as a photon source. But the electroluminescent LEDs produced so far in laboratories are still in their early stages. To make such devices, researchers closely pack the quantum dots in an organic thin film that acts as a transport layer for electrons. But doing so reduces the luminescent efficiency of the dots from more than 90 percent to about 15 percent.

The first practical use of electrically pumped quantum-dot LEDs will likely be in displays, such as computer monitors, where Bulovic says they'll provide more saturated color than organic LEDs do but still retain that technology's ease of manufacturing and flexibility. Electrically pumped quantum-dot solid-state lighting will take longer, because reaching the brightness required for general illumination requires driving the LEDs at higher currents, which reduces their lifetime. But Bulovic is sure that researchers will eventually reach that goal. One way of extending the lifetime would be to replace some of the organic materials in the LEDs with metal oxides or chalcogenides, which won't degrade with exposure to air and moisture.

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Exerpts from http://www.ledinside.com/LED_streetlight_20091215
By ivan
Created 12/15/2009 - 18:47

"In recent years, cross-strait development of various types of LED streetlights have been booming, particularly in 2008, when Taiwan and China both initiated several LED streetlight demonstration projects, spurring the growth momentum of LED industry.

From LED lamps with 45Lm/W luminous efficiency in 2008, to the 80Lm/W luminous efficiency announced by some manufacturers by the end of 2009, the progress has been phenomenal. Regardless of whether the quality of the 80lm/W LED will pass the CNS15233 criteria announced at the end of 2008, the expansion of each country’s domestic demand in LED lamps, supported by the government, coupled by substantial investments from different industry players, will effectively increase the R&D resources, thereby improving the luminous efficacy of LEDs. In the near future, with its high luminous efficacy, LED streetlight will completely replace existing high-pressure sodium lamps.

Thermal dissipation of LED streetlights

All existing designs of thermal dissipation can be broadly categorized into 3 types, namely aluminum alloy heat sink, pin fin heat sink, and heat-pipe. With most of the aluminum alloy type, the heat sink is exposed outside; the advantage of this design is its low cost, especially in module development. However, in the R&D of high-wattage products, weight is an important factor, because according to public regulations, there are certain limitations to the light poles regarding the pressure it is capable of withstanding, thus most of the high wattage products adopt either fin-type heat sink or heat-pipes for heat dissipation.

Technical barriers of LED streetlights

In addition to the R&D of heat sink, the other important element in an LED streetlight structure is its power supply. Currently, the most popular LED products are DC-driven, thus in the power supply unit, manufacturers have to customize power supply for each type of LED streetlight, and make adjustments in the circuit to comply with each country’s product safety standards. Based on our experience in the LED streetlight projects, the majority of LED streetlight malfunctions are caused by unstable power supply. Hence, the stability of power supply directly affects the extent of LED streetlight’s luminous decay during the first three years.

Optical design – the Achilles’ heel of LED streetlight

The other technical barrier in the development of LED streetlight is the optical design capability. Good optical property in the lighting fixture allows LED streetlights to be uniformly illuminated on the road surface. Taiwan’s NS15233 criteria specifies that, the glare for streetlights should be <30 at a vertical 80-degree angle, and <10 at a 90-degree angle. In addition, at a 65 ~ 95 degree angle, there are specific brightness specifications. As for all other lighting fixtures, it depends on the optical design capability of individual developers, as some projects specify their own luminous requirements on the road surface. A good optical design can effectively improve the lighting quality of LED streetlights that have lower luminous efficacy .

So, when both quality and reliability of the products are equal, the comparison of LED streetlights depends on its lighting performance. The majority of current LED streetlights adopt OSRAM’s bidirectional optical design, but each manufacturer still endeavors to enhance the luminous efficacy with its own technological know-how.

Establishment of criteria for LED streetlights

Taiwan's national LED streetlight criteria has been officially announced in December 2008, and China's streetlight standards will be announced separately by each province, and product performance tests also vary accordingly. A nation-wide LED streetlight standard will likely be announced in the near term, and the criteria should be in line with both China’s and Taiwan’s CNS standards, to establish a uniform standard for LED streetlight quality across the strait. As for the U.S. and Europe, LED streetlight standards also specify criteria for the lighting angle, quality, and light decay, etc. With the development of LED streetlight technology, we believe better LED streetlights will be introduced, attracting more LED procurement projects from public sectors, thereby improving the overall market visibility of LED streetlights."

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