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Add another nail in the coffin for incandescent lighting.
Incandescent to LED – Continued
Credit - CNET | Greentech
Toshiba announced Wednesday it has produced its last major run of incandescent lightbulbs.
The Japanese electronics manufacturer said the phaseout is part of a strategy to ultimately concentrate on LED (light-emitting diode) lighting products, though it will continue to produce certain specialty incandescent bulbs.
Incandescent lighting has been dwindling in use over the last five years in large part to citizen and government phase-out campaigns that include laws for an eventual ban on the sale of the electricity-guzzling light source. Many countries have already passed laws with deadlines looming.
Incandescent to LED – Continued
A Lighting Retrofit from HID to Induction Lighting is one of a few great ways to really rake in the energy savings and potentially increase lighting quality. Let’s not forget that most Induction lighting is rated for 100,000 hours where HIDs are typically rated around 10-20,000 hours.
When the U.S. Marine Corps needed to upgrade outdoor lighting at Twentynine Palms, their largest base in the world, they chose Deco Lighting’s 100,000 hour life Induction fixtures. The vast 932 square mile desert base is home to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, located 60 miles west of Palm Springs, in San Bernardino County, California. Built in 1952, the premier base serves to maintain Joint/Coalition operational forces readiness with combined arms training for the eleven units garrisoned there, including the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Tank Battalion, and 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion.
Deco Lighting replaced inefficient HID floodlights, cobraheads and wall pack fixtures with latest green technology, 100,000 hour Induction luminaires to provide the U.S. military with substantial energy savings and long term maintenance cost savings. The new Deco luminaires also deliver superior illumination for operational reliability, visibility and safety. Lighting Retrofit – Continued
A Lighting Retrofit from HID to Induction Lighting is one of a few great ways to really rake in the energy savings and potentially increase lighting quality. Let’s not forget that most Induction lighting is rated for 100,000 hours where HIDs are typically rated around 10-20,000 hours.
When the U.S. Marine Corps needed to upgrade outdoor lighting at Twentynine Palms, their largest base in the world, they chose Deco Lighting’s 100,000 hour life Induction fixtures. The vast 932 square mile desert base is home to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, located 60 miles west of Palm Springs, in San Bernardino County, California. Built in 1952, the premier base serves to maintain Joint/Coalition operational forces readiness with combined arms training for the eleven units garrisoned there, including the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Tank Battalion, and 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion.
Deco Lighting replaced inefficient HID floodlights, cobraheads and wall pack fixtures with latest green technology, 100,000 hour Induction luminaires to provide the U.S. military with substantial energy savings and long term maintenance cost savings. The new Deco luminaires also deliver superior illumination for operational reliability, visibility and safety. Lighting Retrofit – Continued
Credit: wikipedia.org
When choosing a lighting system or technology, It really comes down to what fits the best for your needs or budget contraints. Induction lighting is less expensive than a comparable LED system, but more expensive than a linear T8 flourecent system.
Here is a wiki that goes in to a little more detail about induction lighting:
“In contrast with typical electrical lamps that use electrical connections through the lamp envelope to transfer power to the lamp, in electrodeless lamps the power needed to generate light is transferred from the outside of the lamp envelope by means of (electro)magnetic fields. There are three advantages of eliminating electrodes:
Extended lamp life, because the electrodes are usually the limiting factor in lamp life.
The ability to use high efficiency light-generating substances that would react with metal electrodes in normal lamps.
Improved collection efficiency because the source can be made very small without shortening life – a problem in electroded lamps