China May Come out the Restrictions to Phase out Incandescent Light Bulbs

After the EU, the US, Australia and others have imposed restrictions to phase out incandescent light bulbs, it's reported that China is in the process of making the road map for banning the use of these bulbs. The restriction is expected to be unveiled in March.

According to Wang Jinsui, director general of China Illuminating Engineering Society, said in China Business News," The National Development and Reform Commission has been drafting the map."

Wang said the initial plan is to stop producing 100-watt incandescent bulbs after 2015 and ban them completely from 2018. China has provided subsidies for using energy-saving light bulbs since 2008, prompting many incandescent bulb producers to cut their output.


Source: LEDinside
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Diagrams of Typical LED Spotlights: GU10

Continuing with our last post” Diagrams of Typical LED Light Bulbs: E26,E27” regarding globe E27 LED light bulbs, in this post, we will talk about GU10 LED spotlights.

 GU10 LED Spotlights

GU10 spotlights have been commonly used in spotlighting applications. Traditional GU10 spotlights are halogen lamps. Typically, under current light efficiency of LEDs, 3W LEDs is equivalent to 20W halogen lamps, and 5W or 6W LEDs is equivalent to 40W halogen lamps in terms of lux. Here the picture shows a 4*1W GU10 LED spotlights. See Fg. GU10 LED Spotlights.

From the appearance point of view,  GU10 LED spotlights and halogen spotlights look very similar. However, in fact, the difference between them is tremendous.

GU10 LED Spotlights Dimension

Light Source: light source is the essential difference between LED spotlights and halogen lamps, and that’s the reason why LED lights are much more efficient than halogen lamps. halogen lamps generate light by heating tungsten that covered by halogen gas, while for LEDs, simply describing, when current goes through LEDs, compounded particles in P-N junctions will then release photons (energy). LEDs generate less heat when emitting light, that’s the reason why LEDs are much more efficient than halogen lamps and incandescent bulbs.

Materials: materials are different, LED spotlights usually need aluminum heatsink for  heat dissipation while halogen spotlights do not – their lamp bodies are usually made of plastic.

Driver: furthermore, LED spotlights need drivers (or transformers) in order to be running in existing GU10 fittings, normally 110V or 240V high-voltage fittings.
The picture below illustrates a typical GU10 LED spotlight exploded view. The spotlight is decomposed into 7 components as can be seen from the diagram. The following are the corresponding annotations.

GU10 LED Spotlights Components

1. Lens: beam angle usually customizable
2. Screws
3. LEDs
4. MC PCB
5. Heatsink
6. Plug holder
7. Replacable plug: GU5.3,E26,E27,B22

More interesting stories about LED light bulbs, such as MR16, Par30 etc will be posted soon.

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Diagrams of Typical LED Light Bulbs: E26,E27

Diagrams of Typical LED Light Bulbs: E26,E27

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I’ve been thinking to show people some interesting stuffs about LED lights, eg. LED light source, LED lighting fixtures, LED light components etc. In a series of articles (this one would be the first post, and there will be some other followed up), I will demonstrate some typical LED light bulbs by using some diagrams and annotations. Now just let’s start by one of the most commonly seen globe LED light bulbs: E27.  See Fg.: LED Light Bulbs E27

 

LED E27 Light Bulbs

From the appearance point of view,  globe LED light bulbs and traditional incandescent bulbs look very similar. However, in fact, the difference between them is tremendous.

Globe LED Light Bulbs E27

Light Source: light source is the essential difference between LED light bulbs and traditional incandescent bulbs, and that’s the reason why LED lights are much more efficient than incandescents. Rather than using tungsten wires, LED light bulbs adopt LEDs (Lighting-emitting Diode) as light source.

Materials: materials are different, LED Light bulbs usually adopt mist glass and aluminum, while incandecents usually adopt transparent glass and plastic. Reasons for that: LEDs emit very strong directional light (spot light), with transparent glass, the light would be too harsh to make people feel uncomfortable.  Therefore, it needs diffusion treatment – defused lens.

Driver: furthermore, LED light bulbs need drivers (or transformers) in order to be running in 110V or 240V high-voltage fittings, while the traditional incandescent light bulbs do not.

The picture below illustrates a typical globe LED light bulb exploded view. The light bulb is decomposed into 9 parts as can be seen from the diagram. The following are the corresponding annotations.

E27 Globe LED Bulb Decomposition

1. Lens
2. O-ring
3. Screws
4. LEDs
5. MC PCB
6. Heatsink
7. O-ring
8. Plug holder
9. Replacable pulb: E26,E27
10. LED Light Bulbs E27 Components

More interesting stories about LED light bulbs, such as GU10, MR16, Par30 etc will be posted soon.

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Do you know broken energy-saving lamps harms?

Nowadays, energy-saving lamps are increasingly replacing the traditional incandescent light bulbs, and become the most environmentally friendly lighting choice. To achieve their emission reduction targets, the EU is to phase out traditional incandescent that has been used for 120 years. People are mandatory  to replace their low-efficiency light bulbs with energy-saving lamps. In the UK, compact fluorescent (CFL) is the most common energy-saving lamps. Germany, however, warns the public based on a new study: the mercury released by broken energy saving lamps will be a risk to health, especially for infants and young children and pregnant women. While, LED lights, traditional incandescents, and halogen light bulbs will not cause such problems when broken, because they do not contain mercury.

German Federal Environment Agency claimed that, according to the new research, the mercury toxity of broken energy-saving lamps can be 20 times excess of interior safty guidelines’ standards. GFEA’s Board Secretary said that the presence of mercury in CFL energy-saving lamps is a major defect, therefore, new technologies are need to be adopted as soon as possible to prevent mercury pollution.  The advantage of 80% energy saving and safty of CFLs ought to be synchronous development. A council spokesman said that children and pregnant women should stay away from broken CFLs. In those places with children and pregnant women activities, protection lampshades are suggested to be installed to prevent mercury release by broken energy-saving lamps.

However, the British government insisted that the mercury risks of energy-saving lamps is over-concerned. Broken CFL bulb mercury hazard in fact is some occasional cases, not a big deal. UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesman claimed that, the mercury containing in the CFL energy saving light bulbs is insufficient of harming the surrounding populations.



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City of Baytown Made a LED Pilot Program

Last week, the City of Baytown, the Texas Department of Transportation and lighting manufacturer BetaLED have jointly made a pilot program on adding LED street lighting to the city.

Six conventional 400-watt high pressure sodium fixtures were installed on three light poles located on Highway 146 at the Garth Road overpass. The lights were retrofit with BetaLED's THE EDGE luminaries.

This is the first in a series of testing that will be done throughout Baytown in the months ahead, and it's expected to save the city between 65 and 80 percent on energy and replacement costs. If successful, highway lighting may be added throughout the state.

LED lights, save your bills, save our planet.


Source: ledinside

Middle East switches to LED lighting

Middle East switches to LED lighting

A number of high profile security applications in the Middle East, a region renowned for adopting cutting edge technology, have deployed the latest LED lighting technology from Raytec to improve the performance of their CCTV systems. Raytec, the global leader in the design and manufacture of LED lighting systems for both CCTV, and general lighting applications, confirmed a major distribution agreement with Harco at the beginning of 2010.


Source: LEDNews

LED Lighting Facades

To illuminate the facades of buildings use special spotlights that are mounted on special brackets on the roof, walls, buildings and land.

In Russia and abroad produced many types of floodlights to illuminate the facades of buildings ranging from 35 to 2000 Watts. In the latest generation of projectors are commonly used halogen lamps and LEDs.

If you compare LED and halogen floodlights to illuminate building facades on the main characteristics, in many LEDs are absolute leaders. By quantity of light emitted by LEDs in the lead direction of the light radiation - halogen lamps lose up to 60% luminous flux. LEDs win for color purity and wide range of colors - up to 16 million colors (light filters halogen bulbs burn out quickly), ease of operation and energy savings (up to 6 times compared with halogen lamps). In addition, LEDs improve reliability and service life of lamps, as well as reduce maintenance costs (lifetime in continuous operation - 100 thousand hours).

With the help of a certain number of elements and various optical lenses LEDs allow you to create different projectors and lighting with the power required to illuminate the building. Modern control systems use light-emitting diode searchlights dynamic effects that are not available halogen lamps. The only drawback of LEDs - the high price and low unit capacity, ie for obtaining high luminous flux is required to use a large number of LEDs.

Over the past year or two, were first successful installation of LEDs in architectural lighting cities in Europe and the U.S. made the first attempts to use them in Moscow. In the city the use of LED lighting effectively, experts say that for private homes in the next few years this type of lighting would be dominant.



Source: Ledsnews

Hill County of USA Acquired Grant to LED Retrofit

Currently, Hill County has acquired a State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) $86,365 grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Funds were allocated to replace parking-lot lighting with solar-powered LED lighting at the Hill County Sheriff's Office on Hall Street. LED lighting will also brighten the facility outside. Besides, the sheriff's office jail on North Waco Street in Hillsboro will also get a lighting makeover. The LED lights will replace several high pressure sodium light fixtures,ten floodlights on the exterior of the Hill County Courthouse.

It was estimated that energy and maintenance costs totaling $60,000 will be saved by the county over the next five years.

The lighting overhaul, con-tracted by Solar Wind Technologies out of Allen, is expected to be completed next month.


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Fujian province planed to develop the public LED light with Taiwan LED companies

It's said that China's Fujian provincial government planed to invest CNY20-30 billion (US$3.01-4.51 billion) to develop the public LED lighting market over the next five years, and jointly set up a publicly traded company with Taiwan-based LED companies.

Fujian provincial government expected to install 300,000 LED street lamps in 2011, 600,000 in 2012 and up to 1-2 million in 2013. It's estimated that the total LED street lamp market would reach 5-6 million units in Fujian.

Taiwan's Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the LED Street Lighting Industry Alliance had confirmed the report. If Fujian took the idea, Taiwan's LED Street Lighting Industry Alliance's member would have a chance to become the initial beneficiaries, such as Unity Opto Technology and Everlight Electronics and so on.




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Company Profile in Different Languages Part (4)

Finnish:

Sielement Technologies on johtava LED-valot valmistaja ja toimittaja. LED sisä-valaistus, ulkovalaistus, kaupalliset valaistus, kotitalouksien valaistus, induktio valaistus, koriste-valaistus, aurinko valaistusratkaisuja. LED-valo, LED-lamppu, LED putki, LED spot light, LED downlight, LED-paneeli, LED-liuska, LED-palkki, LED-moduuli, LED G24 lamppu, LED Seinävalo, LED tulva valo, LED vedenalainen valo, LED maanalainen valo, LED pöytävalaisin, LED kaappi valo, LED maisema valo, jne.

Frenc:

Technologies Sielement est un important fabricant et fournisseur de LED. LED d'éclairage intérieur, éclairage extérieur, éclairage commercial, résidentiel, l'éclairage à induction, éclairage décoratif, des solutions d'éclairage solaire. La lumière de LED, ampoule de LED, tube de LED, lumière spot, spot LED, panneau de LED, bandes, barres de LED, module, LED lampe G24, rondelle de mur de LED, LED lumière d'inondation, LED sous la lumière, LED Light souterrains, LED Lampe de table, lumière de LED Cabinet de LED, lumière du paysage, etc

Galician:

Sielement Technologies é un fabricante líder luces LED e provedor. LED de iluminación interior, iluminación exterior, iluminación comercial, iluminación residencial, iluminación de indución, iluminación decorativa, solucións de iluminación solar. diodo emisor de luz, lámpada LED, tubo de LED, luz spot, diodo emisor de luz a abaixo o taboleiro, luz LED, tira, barra de LED, módulo do diodo emisor de luz G24, arruela da parede do diodo emisor de luz, diodo emisor de luz de inundación, diodo emisor de luz subacuática, luz LED no subsolo, LED lámpada de táboa, diodo emisor de luz do armario, diodo emisor de luz de paisaxes, etc

Georgian：

Sielement ტექნოლოგიების წამყვანი LED განათება მწარმოებელი და მომწოდებელი. ინდიკატორი ოთახის განათების, გარე განათების, კომერციული განათების, საცხოვრებელი განათების, ინდუქციური განათების, დეკორატიული განათების, მზის განათების გადაწყვეტილებები. LED განათებით, LED bulb, LED მილის, ლედ ადგილზე მსუბუქი, ინდიკატორი down მსუბუქი, LED პანელი, ინდიკატორი ზოლები, LED ბარი, ინდიკატორი მოდული, რომელსაც G24 ნათურა, ლედ კედლის სარეცხი მანქანა, ლედ წყალდიდობა მსუბუქი, ინდიკატორი წყალქვეშა მსუბუქი, ლედ მიწისქვეშა მსუბუქი, ინდიკატორი მაგიდის ნათურა, ლედ კაბინეტი მსუბუქი, ინდიკატორი ლანდშაფტის მსუბუქი და ა.შ.

German：

Sielement Technologies ist ein führender LED-Leuchten Hersteller und Lieferant. LED Innenbeleuchtung, Außenbeleuchtung, gewerbliche Beleuchtung, Wohnraumleuchten, Induktion Beleuchtung, dekorative Beleuchtung, Solar-Lichtlösungen. LED-Licht, LED Leuchtmittel, LED-Schlauch, LED Strahler, LED beleuchten unten, LED-Panel, LED-Streifen, LED-Leiste, LED-Modul, LED-Lampe G24, LED Wall Washer, LED-Flutlicht, LED-Unterwasser-Licht, LED-U-Licht, LED Tischlampe, LED-Gehäuse, LED-Landschaft Licht, etc.




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