Lighting & Illumination

January 2014

Apollo Metro Solutions LED Street Lights

Collier County extends testing of intelligent LED streetlights

Apollo Metro Solutions and Collier County will move forward with an expanded pilot program to measure the performance of Apollo Metro Solutions light emitting diode (LED) Street Light Luminaire with integrated Ultra-Low Power Wireless Controller. The decision follows the successful completion of a preliminar

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01/15/2014

Optimizing power quality under large load transients

Peyman Safa, Agilent Technologies

Today’s integrated circuits are operating faster than ever, and the increased operating speed can lead to highly dynamic power demand from the power supply, posing a challenge during testing using programmable power supplies. The high-speed current waveforms can lead to voltage drops at the integrated circuit. If

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01/13/2014

Making Isolation Safety Standards Work for You

Mark Cantrell, Analog Devices

In this article we will examine effective ways to use IEC (International Electrical Commission) safety standards to explore the limits of a design by figuring out what standards may apply to a problem amongst the hundreds available. The standards and supporting documents from the IEC are perceived as a burden to

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01/10/2014

Jonathon Eykyn, IHS

Growing Opportunity for Manufacturers of Digital Power

Jonathon Eykyn, IHS

The digital power market is forecast to grow substantially in the next five years with unit shipments of digital power supplies and digital power ICs projected to grow by factors of three and five respectively by 2018 according to IHS. The early adoption of digital power has been dominated by telecommunications, servers a

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01/10/2014

O2Micro to show expanding portfolio of lighting solutions at Lighting Japan 2014

O2Micro International announced its participation in Lighting Japan 2014, January 15 -- 17. Lighting Japan 2014, a composition of three shows -- the LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo, LED/OLED Light Expo, and Design Lighting Tokyo 2014 -- will be held at the Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan. O2Micro will demons

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01/08/2014

LT3797 triple-output DC/DC controller

Linear's triple-output high-current LED driver delivers over 250W

Linear Technology announced the LT3797, a triple-output DC/DC controller designed to drive three independent channels of LEDs. Its fixed frequency, current-mode architecture delivers constant, accurately regulated LED current over a wide range of supply and output voltages. Its 2.5V to 40V input voltage range wit

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01/08/2014

Managing hold up/transparency time in high-reliability power supplies

Christophe Massenet, GAIA Converter

As soon as a power supply designer needs to comply with military standards, he might need to take into account the transparency or holdup requirement. Transparency requirement is the minimum amount of time during which input power can go away but the equipment is expected to remain operational. This power int

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01/07/2014

Report released on the United States lighting control systems industry

The lighting control systems marketplace has been in a state of transition in recent years. Changing energy efficiency codes, new construction project increases, wireless technology benefits, increases in LED lighting adoption and conservation initiatives have been the key factors driving the growth of the

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01/06/2014