Product Notes And Market Notes
Eight notes: what our own launch specifications actually said, and what the lighting trade press reported about prices, life span, colour and horticultural use.
360 Degree LED Bulbs: What Changed When the Beam Went All the Way Round
Why the 360 degree LED bulb family was launched, what power and base options it covers, and where it genuinely replaces an incandescent lamp.
Read the note →Buying GuideKelvins and Lumens: The Two Numbers Buyers Get Wrong
Colour temperature and light output are the two specifications that decide whether a lamp is accepted on site, and they are routinely confused with each other and with watts.
Read the note →Technical NoteInside the Wi-Fi Downlight Platform: 2.4GHz, 1 to 100 Percent, 20 to 30 Metres
The documented specification of the Wi-Fi controlled downlight family, and what those numbers mean for a real building.
Read the note →Technical NoteWhen the Client Will Not Share the Wi-Fi: Bluetooth Lighting
Bluetooth 4.0 bulbs pair straight to a phone, which solves the hotel, rental and small-office case where no one is giving out the router password.
Read the note →Product NoteStrip, Kit or Profile: Three Ways to Buy the Same Light
The same LED tape is sold three ways - as a bare reel, as a packaged retail kit, and built into an aluminium profile - and the right one depends entirely on who you sell to.
Read the note →Market NoteLED Lamps Are Under Two Percent of Europe's Lamp Waste Stream
European collection organisations report that LED lamps make up less than two percent of the lighting waste stream, which is a statement about product life, not about market share.
Read the note →Market NoteHaitz's Law, and Why LED Prices Keep Falling Under You
The cost curve that governs LED pricing is the reason a lighting programme priced twelve months ago is probably priced wrong today.
Read the note →Research NoteWhat Space Horticulture Says About Growing Under LED
NASA's use of LED horticultural lighting to tune growing recipes for plants in orbit is the clearest published case for spectrum control in indoor growing.
Read the note →About These Notes
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