Halloween was over a month ago with the winter holiday season already under way. In...
Halloween was over a month ago with the winter holiday season already under way. In the tradition of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, let’s talk about scary TM-21 calculations.
One of the current challenges in the LED industry is transformer compatibility for low-voltage LEDs. MR16 LEDs are at the forefront of the issue, but not an issue with the LED MR16s themselves. The issue exists with the transformers.
One of the challenges in the lighting industry is to produce more and more light out of smaller and smaller sources. Solais recently decided to rise to this challenge and asked our team of engineers to do exactly that.
As seen in the figure 1 below, white light falls along the Planckian Locus (or black body locus) on the Chromaticity Diagram. This means that depending on where the white light falls along the black body locus, the light can be bluer or yellower than another white light.
One of the things we pride ourselves on at Solais is staying ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest technology. This was true when we came out with the first 1000 lumen replacement lamp to hit the market.
With traditional lamp sources like halogen, fluorescent and metal halide, a selection of lamps (usually somewhere around 100 samples) are burned continuously at a given voltage and position. When 50% of these lamps have ceased to function, then this determines the lamp life for that particular lamp.