Lighting & Illumination

July 2014

Invest in Photonics event comes to France in October

As the United Nations prepares to celebrate the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies in 2015, the photonics industry is buoyant about the many material-based science innovations poised on the tipping point of mainstream commercial adoption, announce the organizers of Invest in Photonics today. Invest in Photon

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Date:

07/29/2014

Considering power inverters in demanding applications

Aengus Murray and Bob Zwicker, Analog Devices

Concerns over climate changes due to carbon emissions have resulted in the increasing application of power electronic inverters in both renewable energy applications and in energy efficient motor drives. Safe and reliable operation of these systems requires that the power electronic circuits connected di

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Date:

07/25/2014

Dialight Vigilant High Bay

Dialight’s latest LED high bay targets 1,000W HID applications

Dialight, an innovation leader in LED lighting technology, announced the launch of its high-output LED Vigilant High Bay offering the first truly, viable replacement for costly and inefficient 1,000W traditional HID high-output fixtures. Delivering 125 lumens per watt at less than half the power consumption of

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Date:

07/23/2014

LED lighting performance depends on proper component choice

Phil Ebbert, Riedon

Not all resistors are the same, and growth in new markets like high-power LED lighting (see Figure 1) is serving to highlight the importance of understanding all aspects of an application in order to correctly and safely specify the right type of resistor. Click image to enlarge Figure 1: The growth in new markets like high-power LED l

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Date:

07/04/2014