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Add sleek style to your home with this captivating design. Maxim Lighting is pleased to present the Asiana Collection. Influenced by far east design. This series features square metal finished is roasted chestnut. The square Wilshire glass blends well with the roving curves of the body design creating an irresistible soft transitional look. The Asiana Collection offers the perfect lightingsource for any room in your home.
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Dennis and Amy Dowling of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Long Island are currently working to install LED outdoor lighting. Tall Pines in Long Island is home to a beautiful estate over looking a panoramic view of Huntington Harbor.Like many homeowners who undergo renovations, their house and landscape had recently completed a renovation with a focus on energy efficiency.
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Billerica, Mass. based Luminus Devices, expands into the transportation industry with the 1st highway/road fixture built with their PhlatLight® LEDs. Luminous Devices, announced its expansion into the transportation industry through a partnership with ABS Lighting. The company’s CSM-360 White PhlatLight LED is powering an energy-efficient, high brightness, LED light fixture manufactured for use on roadway underpasses and in highway tunnels. The fixture is ideal for roadway underpasses and tunnel installations because it lasts more than 60,000 hours, reducing the need to close roads or highways as frequently to replace the lights. Click here to read a full press release on the Luminous Devices website. Go Massachusetts! 
Remember our color temperature drifting in our LED wall washing application note? No? Click here to read all about it Well, as you may recall we had 6 high power LEDs on a linear board to be installed either in a ceiling or in a floor along a wall. The LEDs were fitted with large 3/4-inch diameter can-type prismatic, directional diffusers. The problem was that the LED manufacturer’s binning for accounts buying less than a zillion LEDs leaves something to be desired. Add to that the fact that the contract manufacturer didn’t assemble these first using LEDs from one lot and then progressing to the next but rather a mix and match approach as they went along. We were expecting the LEDs to be warm white but what we got was anything from deep amber to pink with several shades of yellow, orange, and green in between. There were hundreds of these boards made and even with the solution of pulling the surface mount LEDs off the board and binning them by color on our end, we were faced with the prospect of 30 – 40% board loss. Ouch! 
needed to correct. We could print all of these at whatever opacity we needed. In this way, we could hold the strip over the LED and cycle it through the squares on a strip and see it’s effect on the LED light ouput color in realtime. Testing with a light meter revealed that the gels reduced the light output by well less than 10%, which in this case was not a problem since the LEDs were to be operated at a power rating slightly ABOVE the design spec. The other engineer and I were able to come up with the 6 or so colors we needed and at what opacity levels we would need all for the cost of one box of ink jet transparency film ($15.00) and our time. As it turned out, this was a HUGE time saver as well. Taking the SMT LEDs off to correct the problem the board would require about 1 hour per board plus the time of resoldering a new LED on to a new board (the metal-core board would be destroyed taking the LEDs off). Anyrate, we settled on 5%, 10%, 15%, 20, and 25% opacity so we had 6 colors at 5 opacity levels for a total of 30 different types of gels. Once the testing was done and we had our selections, we set about manufacturing the actual gels to fit the LEDs. Here I took each color/opacity level and printed it out on an entire sheet of ink-jet transparency film (along with some text indicating what color and opacity level it was so we wouldn’t have any binning mistakes later). Once all 30 combinations had been printed in this manner, our production department set about punching out 3/4-inch circles using a hollow punch and a hammer. We got over 150 circles per page. We used plastic cups labeled with the color and opacity level and these were filled as the puncher went along. The entire punching process took about 4 hours – less than the time it would take to yank the LEDs off of 5 boards! Once all the punching and binning was done, then we went about correcting each LED on a board. The 3/4-inch round gels were designed to fit right in to the recess at the top of the LED’s can diffuser/lens. The fit was perfect! We would still need to do a little trial and error testing by occasionally swapping circle gels onto and off of an LED until it was corrected to the best of our ability. Once a gel was found that worked well, it could be glued into place with a few dabs of quick drying optical epoxy on the edges. Once a few had been done, the process got really easy and quick. We did find a few oddball LEDs with weird in-between colors in their output that required either printing and punching a new gel set or in a few cases, stacking gels to achieve the best possible correction level. For example we had an LED with orangish output that when we applied the bluish-purple complementary gel, shifted to a slightly green output which required the application of another gel of purplish-red to correct. There were a few LEDs that had colors that kept shifting around no matter what we did – these were chocked up to loss.
By the way, if you work for a company that produces particularly innovative lighting products for architectural applications and would like me to possibly publish information about that product and your company, then please send me the information via the contact form. I’m not opening the flood gates for every company selling more of the same “blah-blah” Chinese LED fixtures to send me emails describing your company’s products in detail and all about how you can beat any price in America etc… I get enough of those crap emails now. No, what I am looking for is
…this is now. Other designers and manufacturers that have put there own spin on this bubble idea. Literally, the fixtures look like bubbles hanging from the ceiling. The simplicity of these fixtures will create drama and whimsy to any room. These “bubbles” are going everywhere and being used in all decorating styles. With the resurgence of “retro” styling, these are even more popular today.
When owners Robert & Rian van der Putten started their outdoor lighting business several years back, low voltage outdoor lighting was traditionally the best and most popular option for outdoor lighting.
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