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Here in one neat package is our collection of key LED lighting articles, covering white LEDs, coloured LEDs, OLEDs and Lighting LEDs...

* White LEDs

* Coloured LEDs

* LED Lighting (1)

* LED Lighting (2)

* LEDs General

* LED Optics

* OLEDs

* Costing LEDs

* LED heatsinking

* 50 year history of the LED

Niche product of the week award goes to ...

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It surely has to go to the LT-2000 series LiteTracker Bikelite, 'the latest development from the LiteTracker range for indication and illumination in explosive atmospheres'... specially for people who like to travel by bicycle in such hazardous locations as chemical sites.

From a practical point of view it's not actually such a daft idea. This LED light can be used as a personal indicator to identify the position of workers in confined spaces or it can switch to torch mode and be used as a mini flashlight for close inspection work. Handy in the pub on Quiz Night. It's even sealed to IP67 - perfect.

How tough are LEDs ?

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LEDs are often recommended for use in harsh and hazardous locations, but how do you test the abilities of a product to withstand such abuse.

Introducing the Dialight Animal House - test procedure - pre-recorded for your enjoyment and now available on you tube

SafeSite at the animal house

LED Lighting guides

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

* Costing LEDs

* 50 year history of the LED








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Author Profiles

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.jpgIan 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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