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Niche product of the week award goes to ...

By Gordon Routledge on August 21, 2009 5:58 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

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 ?

By Gordon Routledge on March 4, 2009 9:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

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

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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.

Alistair Winning
Since graduating in Electronic Systems from the University of Paisley in 1997, Alistair has worked in the electronics design publishing industry. He has held various jobs in both journalism and PR/marketing including editor of Electronic Engineering Design and Embedded Systems Engineering and Account Manager at JDK Marcom. He is now working as Editor for Premier Farnell and recently launched its in-house technical magazine, Technology First.

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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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