Recently refurbished National Express trains have been fitted with reading lamps "upfront", and each one has a switch - but they are never used.
The joys of modern technology allow me to write and post this blog from a seat on the 12:05 Leeds to London train service.
I received a copy of the VIZ annual for christmas, on one page was a useful tool for TV executives to name reality shows - .i.e celebrity -electronics design - boot camp. With so many companies starting up in the LED space I have created my own version to help anyone searching for a start-up name.
That's me having a Jeremy Clarkson moment on seeing this headline.
"Brooklyn Park residents complain LED bulbs are too dim."
The article in an American paper reports that some people in Brooklyn Park, NY say the energy-saving streetlights now being tested aren't such a bright idea. This is on the level of the New York City residents complaining that they could not see our LED Beacon light from a car on the top of the George Washington Bridge, because the flashing red light was a staple of NYC. Our light was designed to purposely reduce ground scatter, or the "non useful" light shining downwards. They actually made us re-design them a special Beacon with scatter built-in so the citizens would not complain.
At least I agree with one of the reader comments on this article:
"Remember when we had plain old incandescent lightbulbs for streetlights? They sure didn't put out any light, but they were a blast to break with snowballs."
Happy new year everyone!
I wrote in my last blog about the continuing displacement of conventional lighting by LEDs in many applications, but I didn't expect LEDs to try compete in the tackiest of applications, Christmas lighting, quite so soon. Minnesota company Seasonal Impressions has developed a range of LED retrofit bulbs that are fully computer controlled allowing the creation of some amazing lighting displays. More can be seen here,
The development should at least save a fortune for the owner's of Vegas' casinos
An LED Lighting-related article has just been posted on Electronics Weekly:
See also Electronics Weekly's roundup of content related to LEDs, with a special focus on both white LEDs and coloured LEDs, and Lighting LEDs.
* White LEDs
* Coloured LEDs
* LED Lighting (1)
* LED Lighting (2)
* LEDs General
* LED optics
* OLEDs
* 50 year history of the LED
Paul Ward
As Opto Product Manager at Farnell, Paul is overseeing the company's involvement in the rapidly evolving and high profile LED lighting market sector.
As well as ensuring that Farnell offers the latest technologies and products related to solid state lighting, Paul is also responsible for ensuring that the resources are in place to make it easier for design engineers to specify and design-in LED solutions for their applications.
Educated in Production Engineering and Design at Sheffield Hallam University, Paul has worked in various engineering, training and marketing roles for companies including C&K switches, ITT Cannon, Cherry and LED specialist Chicago Miniature Lighting.
Away from the world of LEDs, Paul is a Founder of the charity RTTW, Photographer and Harley Davidson rider; he has ridden and snapped across Europe, New Zealand and the USA on his chrome hog!
Gordon Routledge
Gordon Routledge is one of the original pioneers in LED illumination having worked with LEDs in illumination applications since 1996. Currently VP of Illumination at Dialight, Gordon founded Lumidrives in 2001, having previously been managing director at ACDC Lighting Systems. Gordon has a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from university of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Ian Bryant
Ian Bryant is Business Development Manager LED Division at Carclo Technical Plastics. He has worked on and off at Carclo (Formerly Combined Optical Industrial) since leaving school. He has worked through the company from Toolmaking to starting the company on the road of LED optics business some 6-7 years ago, starting with a standard range and more in line with the business of custom optics. In between all this he has worked in engineering and as a works Director for a hydraulics company but kept getting pulled back to the optics industrial. We are able to offer the full solution from idea to parts so have a very good understanding on what is needed. You will see some posts from our design team also under my name.
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