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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…
Look at Lighting: LEDs – Pricing No Longer an Excuse
Stan Walerczyk In the last year, LED performance and pricing have really improved. I have been presenting seminars comparing LEDs with high performance incumbent technologies since the 2011 Lightfair. With…
Does LED or Linear Fluorescent Have the Lowest Maintenance Costs?
Stan Walerczyk Although maintenance costs are mainly an end user concern, distributors and contractors, who provide low maintenance costs options to customers, will probably increase sales compared to their counterparts,…