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Amerlux Expands Linea Line with Adjustable Accents

Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today the expansion of its linear lighting family with new solutions that will deliver more options for architects and lighting designers. Read more »

Systems + Applications | HCL | Luminaires | Dec 17, 2019

GlacialLight - New Natural Sunlight of GL-CFD06Dx-35-NL Series with 3-in-1 and AC-TRIAC Dimming

GlacialLight, the LED lighting division of GlacialTech Inc., announces the natural sunlight GL-CFD06Dx-35-NL series. With a CRI of 98, as well as the CQS (Color Quality Scale) is up to 97. The color fidelity index (TM-30-15 Rf) and color gamut score (TM-30-15 Rg) are close to natural light. The GL-CFD06Dx-35-NL offers an optional decorative LED color ring, and a choice of surface or suspension mounting. It also features with 3-in-1 dimming and AC-TRIAC dimming functions for greater lighting flexibility. Read more »

Universal Lighting Technologies Expands EVERLINE® Retrofit Options for Commercial Applications

Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc., a global leader in lighting and a member of the Panasonic Group, recently introduced its EVERLINE® LRK34-ML LED Linear Retrofit Kits to its high-efficiency line of products, designed for commercial applications such as factories, warehouses and gymnasiums. Read more »

Inventronics Expands Next Gen Platform: More Compact, Global IP66/IP67 LED Drivers

Inventronics has expanded their new family of programmable, IP66/IP67 LED drivers to include model offerings that cover 75W and 100W power levels. These new models are an extension to their existing 150W, 200W and 240W series. Read more »

SSL | Systems + Applications | LED Panels | Luminaires | Dec 12, 2019

LSI Industries Launches Enhanced, Multi-Setting, Edge-Lit LED Panel

LSI Industries said today that the company has launched an enhanced version of its edge-lit LED panel. The new luminaire features an innovative upgrade that enhances its versatility across numerous indoor applications, including schools, offices, hospitals and stores. Read more »

Douglas Lighting Controls® Introduces the Conference Room Controls App to its Bluetooth® Wireless System of Devices

Douglas Lighting Controls®, a member of the Panasonic family of companies, recently announced the pairing of its Conference Room Controls App to its system of Bluetooth® Wireless devices. Designed for conference room and boardroom applications, the new iPad control console pairs seamlessly with Douglas Lighting Controls' Bluetooth Wireless eco-system of devices to provide a modern, large format touch screen interface for control functionality. Read more »

Hella Announces Development of High-Resolution Lighting System Digital Light SSL|HD

With the new high-resolution lighting system "Digital Light SSL|HD", the lighting and electronics expert HELLA is making a further significant contribution to greater safety and comfort in road traffic. With this lighting technology, more than 30,000 pixels can be controlled intelligently and individually, thus bringing about numerous new safety functions like optical lane markings. Furthermore, original equipment manufacturers and end customers can use SSL|HD technology to implement and experience further options allowing enhanced individualisation, such as coming and leaving home animations as well as communication functions. Read more »

Xicato Expands Family of Miniature Smart Drivers with Wireless Control

Xicato, the leading provider of smart building wireless controls and highest quality light sources, today announced the general availability of XMD, a purpose-built form factor Xicato grade driver that fits into compact track adapters for elegant designs. XMD's narrow, rectangular and low-profile footprint allows Luminaire designs with minimal visual impact with deep-dimming and smart driver control with wireless BLE option. Read more »

Applications | Outdoor Applications | Wireless | Nov 14, 2019

Cree Lighting Improves Outdoor and Industrial Intelligent Lighting

Cree Lighting announced the availability of Synapse®SimplySNAP intelligent lighting controls for the OSQ Series area, IG Series parking structure and KBL Series high-bay luminaires. These Cree Lighting luminaires overcome the challenges of outdoor and industrial environments to provide maximum energy savings, responsive illumination and a better user experience. Read more »

EzyLED™ Now Stocked at Digi-Key

American Bright, a global LED lighting solutions manufacturer, announced a series of EzyLED 3030. American Bright's EzyLED™ is a proprietary LED device with a built-in IC. This patented design drastically reduces the need for additional circuitry and other on-board components making it the ideal solution for tight fitting applications. The smart EzyLED 3030 comes with a constant current regulator with built-in bias voltage rectification circuit and uses conventional 12V/24V AC/DC sources. The EzyLED is also available in a T-10 bulb. Request a free sample today! Read more »

Opulent Americas - Linear LED Module Built with Osram Osconiq S 3030 QD

Opulent Americas, a fully integrated global manufacturer for the lighting, automotive, and medical industries, is excited to announce the product line addition of linear LED modules built with the new Osram Osconiq S 3030 Quantum Dot LED. The Osconiq S 3030 QD was specially developed to enable customers to design luminaires with high efficacy and excellent color rendering for area lighting and downlight applications. Read more »

Xicato's New Daylight 5600 K LED Source Is Here

Xicato, the leading provider of smart building wireless controls and highest quality light sources, today announced the general availability of Daylight 5600 K CCT. As one of the best approximations of sunlight indoors, it delivers rich, accurate colors with high gamut, CRI 95+ and R9 of 90+, with a consistency and reliability that has set Xicato lights apart. Read more »

Components | Electronics | Driver Modules | Outdoor Applications | Oct 18, 2019

Inventronics Introduces Next Generation Platform, IP66/IP67 LED Driver Family with UL Class P

Inventronics has introduced an entirely new family of programmable, IP66/IP67 LED drivers designed with a next generation platform. They provide OEMs even more design flexibility with UL Class P, a more compact housing and industry-leading surge protection. Read more »

GlacialPower - New GP-CVP040N Series LED Constant Voltage Driver with TRIAC Dimming

GlacialPower, the power division of the LED technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc, announces the new GP-CVP040N series LED constant voltage driver. It is available in 12 V DC and 24 V DC output rated power of 40.8 W. The driver supports TRIAC dimming function, and appropriates for LED strips application in places such as restaurants, jewelry shop, home and theater. Read more »

Xicato Announces Availability of XOB with 14.5mm LES

Xicato, the leading provider of smart building wireless controls and highest quality light sources, today announced the immediate availability of the XOB high-density light source in 14.5mm LES with nearly 5,000 lumens output. The benchmark light quality of XOB series with an R9 of 50 at 90CRI and an R9 of 90 at 95CRI provide the best options for strong color rendering in industry standard sizes for easy adoption. Read more »

Bridgelux Delivers New Lighting Solutions, Naturally

Enabling LED industry transformation for over 15 years, Bridgelux today reinforced its focus and commitment to the lighting market with the commercial availability of Thrive™ surface mount device (SMD) 2835 and V Series™ chip-on-board (COB) parts. Thrive white point options are designed to closely match the spectra of natural light by reducing blue spikes and cyan valleys, and providing full spectrum, human centric LED lighting solutions. Read more »

Components | Electronics | Driver Modules | Indoor Applications | Oct 07, 2019

EPtronics Announces LD96W-TL High Power LED Driver for Phase Dimming Applications

EPtronics, Inc. (EPtronics) has announced a new addition to its high power Class 2 LED driver offerings: the latest generation LD Series LD96W-TL driver with high performance constant current output. This dimmable LED optimized driver provides the perfect solution for new and retrofit applications requiring high power output in a single unit, removing the need to divide light engines across multiple lower wattage drivers. Designed to operate with TRIAC and ELV phase dimming input, the EPtronics line of -TL phase dimmable drivers includes 6W, 9W, 12W, 16W, 20W, 25W, 40W, and now this 96W model. Read more »

Smart Lighting + IoT | Systems + Applications | Indoor Applications | Controls | Oct 04, 2019

Douglas Lighting Controls® Introduces DMX 4-Color Control (RGBW) Solution to Dialog® Family

Douglas Lighting Controls®, a member of the Panasonic family of companies, recently introduced the DMX 4-Color Control (RGBW) solution to their line of high-performance Dialog® framework. Designed for lobby and color change accent lighting applications, the new technology allows integration of 4-channel fixtures within Douglas Lighting Controls centralized lighting control system via WDB-RGB4. Read more »

Telensa Urban IQ Solution Connects Sensors Through Smart Streetlight Infrastructure

Telensa, the leader in connected street lighting and smart city data applications, today announced the launch of Urban IQ. A future-proof, open solution designed to connect sensors using smart streetlight infrastructure and visualise the data collected. Telensa is the world leader in smart street lighting, and Urban IQ is a natural addition. The evolution of smart city sensing is at an early stage, and cities cannot predict the mix of sensors and networks needed to support future projects. Urban IQ uses the light poles' perfect position to host multiple sensors, connected using the best-fit lighting and cellular networks. Telensa has created Urban IQ to enable cities to deploy sensors today and to support any future smart city strategy. Read more »

Office Lighting | Systems + Applications | Indoor Applications | Luminaires | Oct 01, 2019

Ledvance Announces Panel 1200 Direct/Indirect for the Perfect Work-Light-Balance

The new Panel 1200 Direct/Indirect is a suspended edge-lit, stand-alone luminaire with direct (70 percent) and indirect (30 percent) light emission. It therefore provides the right lighting for a variety of office requirements in line with relevant office norms. The new luminaires for the Panel 1200 series follow the unified and award-winning Ledvance Scale design language. They also offer flexible mounting options and keep operating and maintenance costs low. The Panel 1200 Direct/Indirect luminaires are now available in two different versions (on/off and DALI) at wholesalers. Read more »

Featured | Systems + Applications | Tracks | Indoor Applications | Sep 30, 2019

Multisystem – Same Core, Multiple Shapes and Functionalities for Track Lighting

A.A.G. Stucchi low voltage system for track lighting is developed to satisfy all technical and design needs. The all system is based on a "smart core" that provides easy and magnetic installation of the lighting fixtures, and integrated databus for light control, thus being technically at the cutting edge. The various available versions of the track provide solutions for ceiling, suspended and trimless applications while the all range of connections, end-feeds and adapters allow maximum flexibility for projects where light runs along walls, ceilings, or a combination of both. Read more »

Ceiling Lights | Systems + Applications | Indoor Applications | Luminaires | Sep 17, 2019

Magnetic Brilliance: CLICK – the New Light Design by Kolarz

Autumn is just around the corner: It's the perfect time for more light in our homes, especially for focused accents creating atmospheric effects of light and shadow. The new CLICK by Kolarz is a functional contemporary ceiling light, extremely flexible in use, easy to mount and available in a great variety of hand-finished surfaces: in a purist black or white design, in a sleek and stylish gold, silver or copper leaf look or in a Vintage metallic style, also showing finest gold, silver or copper leaf. Read more »

eLumigen Launches LED Vapor Tight Linear Lowbay Fixtures

Today, eLumigen launched their new 4' LED Vapor Tight Linear Lowbay fixtures. The company specializes in LED lighting for harsh commercial and industrial environments. The new LED Vapor Tight Linear Lowbay fixtures come with an extremely durable housing, including an IK10 protection rating to withstand up to 11lbs of impact. The fixtures have an IP66 rating for dust & water ingress protection for both indoor and outdoor applications. A flip-down cover at each end creates easy access for through-wiring and daisy-chaining multiple fixtures together. Read more »

Ledvance Expands Its Current Portfolio of TruSys Trunking Systems

With the extension of the portfolio by the new TruSys Performance, LEDVANCE expands its wide range of attractive lighting solutions for factories, workshops and warehouses even further. The luminaires in the TruSys Performance series offer a very high system efficacy and life span, as well as quick and easy installation and a good price-performance ratio. LEDVANCE is launching the TruSys PFM On/Off and the TruSys PFM DALI to the market in September 2019, the TruSys PFM EM, the emergency version, will follow in December 2019. Read more »

Lumileds RGBW Module Achieves Breakthrough Flux and Color Control

Lumileds, a global leader in innovative lighting solutions, today introduced the Luxeon MultiColor Module 2.5 W, a compact RGBW module that produces leading flux and achieves exact color points in architectural and general outdoor lighting applications. The 4-in-1 module simplifies system design by combining red, green, blue and white emitters in a compact 5050 footprint, PLCC package. "We designed a barrier between the color and white emitter to eliminate the problem of crosstalk, allowing designers to consistently achieve the exact color point they are targeting," said Jennifer Holland, Product Line Director at Lumileds. Crosstalk can occur when a direct LED excites the phosphor in a neighboring white LED, altering the emitted color. Read more »

Lumileds RGBW Module Achieves Breakthrough Flux and Color Control

Ledvance's Latest Uultra-Flexible LED Strip lLighting To Debut ELEX Show

New flexible LED Strip lighting will be making its debut on the Ledvance stand at ELEX Coventry this year, taking place at the Ricoh Arena, 19-20th September 2019. The new flexible lighting will be on show alongside Ledvance's extensive portfolio of intelligent lighting solutions, lamps, and modern LEDs, ideal for any indoor or outdoor project. Read more »

AR111 | Lamps | Indoor Applications | Systems + Applications | Aug 29, 2019

GlacialLight Announces New Natural Sunlight of AR111 Series with 3-in-1 and TRICA Dimming

GlacialLight, the LED lighting division of GlacialTech Inc., announces the natural sunlight GL-AR111-V2A-12-NL series. With a CRI of 97, as well as the CQS (Color Quality Scale) is up to 98. The color fidelity index (TM-30-15 Rf) and color gamut score (TM-30-15 Rg) are close to natural sunlight. It also features with two dimming functions include AC-TRIAC dimming and 3-in-1 dimming for greater lighting flexibility. The GL-AR111-V2A-12-NL is well suitable use for spot lighting, residential lighting, commercial lighting, hallway lighting and cabinet lighting. Read more »

ALAN May Be Increasing West Nile Virus Spillover from Wild Birds

We're in the midst of summertime mosquito bite season and cities across the country are reporting a heightened number of West Nile Virus (WNV) cases. The house sparrow is one of the most common carriers of WNV in urban areas. Mosquitos feed off the infected birds and spread the virus to humans. New research finds house sparrows exposed to artificial light at night, such as what's used in parking lots, maintain higher burdens of WNV for longer than those who spend their nights in the dark. Read more »

Bay Lights | Systems + Applications | Indoor Applications | Luminaires | Aug 06, 2019

GlacialLight Announces New Natural Sunlight of GL-BL60-NL Series

GlacialLight, the LED lighting division of GlacialTech Inc., announces the natural sunlight GL-BL60-NL series. With a CRI of 97, as well as the CQS (Color Quality Scale) is up to 97. The color fidelity index (TM-30-15 Rf) and color gamut score (TM-30-15 Rg) are close to natural light. The GL-BL60-NL can be mounted on ceiling or ground surfaces to project onto walls, as well as comes in suspension chain, pendant rod and outdoor stake options. It also features with dimming function for greater lighting flexibility. Read more »