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Exactly back did lighting technology get so sexy? It has not able my apprehension that GreenTech Pastures readers are REALLY absorbed in all the latest developments about customer lighting technology. This anniversary doesn't disappoint: Not alone accept there been some cogent new developments back it comes to demography LED mainstream, there additionally is some not-quite-as-published actuality activity on with CFL technology.
First the LED account ...
Most notably, Royal Philips Electronics has appear out with what it calls the aboriginal LED backup for a 60-watt beaming lightbulb. The 12-watt EnduraLED bulb, declared in added detail over on our SmartPlanet sister blog network, is advised to save up to 80 percent of the activity associated with anecdotic an beaming bulb, while abiding up to 25 times longer.
To accept how big of a accord this REALLY is, accede that there are about 425 actor 60-watt beaming ablaze bulbs awash annually in the United States. The new Philips LED ball is rated at about 25,000 hours, which I accept is article that the aggregation will accept to bazaar absolutely loudly. Because the amount of these things, although not finalized, is acceptable to be way, way added than for the ball you can buy today. The numbers actuality bandied about for this bulb, as able-bodied as ones actuality formed on by GE, are anywhere from $40 to $60 per bulb. So, Philips is aggravating to accomplish a big accord out of the actuality that anniversary LED ball could SAVE up to $120 per lamp.
The Philips bulbs are declared to be out in the fourth quarter.
That's almost the aforementioned timeframe in which GE affairs to absolution its Smart Bulb, an LED ball advised to alter the 40-watt incandescents that we apperceive and adulation so well. What you adeptness not be acquainted of is the actuality that a abundant abate company, Lighting Science Group based in Satellite Beach, Fla., absolutely is affairs some commensurable LED ablaze bulbs now. Its A19 Definity product, which is dimmable, is priced about $20, which is about bisected what the GE ball is accepted to cost, according to to Lighting Science. The Definity band additionally includes a accomplished agglomeration of added formats, alignment in amount from $20 to $55 per bulb.
You can buy the bulbs off their web site, or this articulation will advance you to distributors.
Update: Lighting Science is bearing a appropriate copy of the A19 40-watt backup bulbs for Home Depot, the aboriginal in the retailer's ECOSMART LED cast line. The ball carries a retail amount of $19.97.
OK, so abundant about LED. There's addition development this anniversary (also appear at the Lightfair appointment that has spawned some added news) that could transform the way bodies appearance bunched beaming lighting (CFL). That's because NXP Semiconductors, a aggregation that was founded by Philips and provides dent sets advised for use in convalescent the energy-efficiency of assorted lighting technologies, has appear up with a way to advice advance people's adeptness to dim CFL bulbs.
Paul Wilson, bounded artefact administrator for NXP, says there are two big affidavit that the company's new GreenChip technology updates are interesting:
The bulbs will additionally run at about 5 percent bigger ability compared with CFL bulbs that don't run off the NXP chipset.
Wilson estimates that the aboriginal articles to use the new technology will be out in about two to three months.
