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The Importance of CRI and R9
By Stan Walerczyk Color rendition Index (CRI) and R9, which is red content, are two important factors to select LED and/or incumbent interior products. This can be critical for distributors…
Lighting and the Internet of Things
By Stan Walerczyk This week’s lighting column focuses on how the lighting industry is inexpensively incorporating apps and other tools into lighting products and low priced advanced wired and wireless…
Lighting Controls, Revisited
Stan Walerczyk I was fortunate enough to get some detailed feedback regarding my controls column, Lighting and the Internet of Things. I look forward to even more feedback in the…
The New Work Horse Lamp
By Stan Walerczyk For well over a decade my favorite workhorse lamp has been a 3100 lumen 80 CRI 32W fluorescent F32T8, but now LED lightbars, LED troffer kits or…
LED Fixtures to Replace High Wattage HID
By Stan Walerczyk Until recently, LED fixtures were too expensive to replace high wattage HID because so many LEDs were required, and there is an added cost for each additional…
Philips to Combine Lighting Units Into Stand-Alone Company
By Jack Keough Philips, the huge Dutch industrial giant, says that it intends to combine its LED and automotive lighting businesses into a new stand-alone company. Philips says that it…
LED Lightbars Versus LED Troffer Kits
In addition to high performance fluorescent, LED lightbars and LED troffer kits are two very good retrofit solutions. If anybody wants me to write about LED T8s, I will, but…