LED Lighting guides
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
In the early days of power LEDs, many lighting firms rushed out solid-state luminaries only to find them failing in service.
The problem was heatsinking. Manufacturers were used to filament bulbs that run hot and are cooled by radiation, and fluorescent tubes that have a huge surface area from which heat convects.
Conductive cooling, the mainstay of electronics, was a black art.
LED Luminaries always keeps an eye out for innovative or curious uses of LEDs, and how about this one?..."This wrench set has LED lights built into the wrenches, writes Technabob.
Specifying an LED optic is easy isn't it, writes Steve Bush?
We like it. Mitsubishi Electric has installed a six-metre diameter organic light-emitting display (OLED) globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan.
Here's a toast to the success of Brandon Medical Company, based in West Yorkshire. The company has won a Queen's Award and is cited as providing "LED lighting with efficiency and near-perfect colour rendition."
This one caught my eye recently. And if the real thing caught your eye, you would be blinded. An LED Bazooka torch, comprising 500 5mm super-bright white LEDs... Just 50 Watt power consumption at full power!
Researchers from Siemens have broken their own record for wireless data transfer using white LED light, reports Engadget.com, stating that they achieved 500Mbps.The old record sat at "just" 200Mbps, but the new speeds are helping to take Visible Light Communication from a hopeful technology to a serious contender in the space. These same researchers were also able to show that a system using up to five LEDs is capable of beaming out data over long distances at up to 100Mbps.Read the full article >>
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
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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