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Editor's Note. Much of this issue of G-Biz will be
devoted exclusively to LightFair International, which was held this week
in New York.
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Braving an insanely bad economy and tiny travel budgets, more than
22,000-plus lighting professionals and more than 500 exhibitors attended
LightFair 2009, held May 3-7 in New York’s Jacob Javits Convention
Center.
You can sum up the biggest news at LightFair in 2009 in just three
letters: LED. Despite the fact that LEDs are not quite cost competitive
with many conventional light sources and many industry insiders have
concerns about the quality of light, the still-developing of
manufacturing standards, and the quality of some LEDs now on the market,
there was no doubt at the lighting industry’s annual meeting of the
tribes that LEDs are here to stay and that they are totally
revolutionizing the lighting business. Dozens of booths at the show
exhibited LED light sources, LED lighting fixtures or related products.
It was also common to see LED manufacturers talking with fixture
manufacturers about sourcing arrangements.
The title of one LightFair seminar summed up some of the current
concerns about LEDs: “100,000 hours and other LED Fairy Tales.” In
the course description, the presenter, John Curran, president of LED
Transformations Stanton, N.J., also composed a little LED ditty on the
current concerns about light quality: “Mary had an LED... Its light
was white as snow... But everywhere that Mary went… People said,
“What is that blue glow?”
At least one manufacturer was moving cautiously into LEDs. Ray Angelo,
president, Westinghouse Lighting Corp., Philadelphia, said at this
year’s LightFair his company was displaying its core lighting products
such as HID lighting and CFLs, but was showing just a few LED prototypes
so his employees could get feedback from customers on where they want to
use LEDs before ramping up production. Angelo said one popular location
is parking lots and some industrial settings where light quality is not
a major issue and lamp replacement/maintenance is costly.
General office/interior lighting and exit sign applications were by far
the most common applications for LEDs promoted at LightFair, but a
surprising number of manufacturers, including GE Lighting, Cleveland;
and Cooper Lighting, and Schreder Lighting, both of Elk Grove Village,
Ill., displayed outdoor LED fixtures for parking lots and pathways that
had a lamp life of up to 50,000 hours.
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LEDs won their share of awards in LightFair’s annual LFI Awards
competition. This year’s winners were:
Most Innovative Product of the Year. Calculite Solid-State
Downlights by Lightolier/Philips
Design Excellence Award. kite by Peerless from Acuity Brands
Lighting.
Technical Innovation Awards. Luxeon Rebel ES from Philips
Lumileds Lighting Co. and SST-90-W by Luminus Devices.
Judges’ Citation Award (Special recognition of an innovative
product at the judges’ discretion). LM-80-08 Approved Method for
Measuring Lumen Maintenance of LED Light Sources from the Illuminating
Engineering Society (IES).
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Another major award presented at this year’s LightFair was the
2008 GE Edison Award, which went to James R. Benya, Benya Lighting
Design, West Linn, Ore; Michael Neils and Juan José Villatoro, M. Neils
Engineering, Sacramento, Calif.; and James E. Christensen, city of
Sacramento, for lighting the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. For more on
the award click
here.
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Philips Lighting, Somerset, N.J., had to set some sort of record
for the number of booths run by one company at LightFair. The company
had 12,000 square feet of total booth space at the show with 24 separate
booths for all of its lighting lines, and the company’s lighting
village at the show (jokingly called “Philipsville” by some
employees looked like a trade show within a trade show… Another
interesting exhibitor was Arrow Electronics, Melville, N.Y. The company
was selling the LED components and “total lighting solutions” that
lighting manufacturers need for their LED lighting fixtures and other
LED products…. Folks at the Underwriters Laboratories, NEMA and
Department of Energy booths had a lot to say about the need for
standards in the LED lighting market, and all of these organizations are
working hard to ensure that LEDs will soon need to meet stringent
safety, technical and performance standards… You will soon start
seeing the Lighting Facts
label from the DOE on the products that meet its standards now under
development… Next year’s LightFair will be held in Las Vegas, May
26-30. – Jim Lucy at LightFair in New York
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Duke Energy, Charlotte, N.C., will build between 100 and 400
electricity-generating mini solar power plants throughout North Carolina
over the next two years in one of the first large-scale initiatives of
its kind in the U.S., CEO Jim Rogers recently said.
"Solar and wind are both going to be key parts of our strategy going
forward," Rogers told reporters following the company's annual
meeting
In other solar news with the company, the North Carolina Utilities
Commission issued a decision on May 6 allowing Duke Energy to proceed
with its $50-million proposal to install solar panels on the roofs and
grounds of homes, schools, office buildings, shopping malls, warehouses
and industrial plants, starting later this year.
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The 400W High-Output Metal-Halide Pulse-Start lamp is rated for
universal mounting, which reduce inventory for both distributors and end
users by eliminating the different models for vertical and horizontal
mounting positions. The lamps offer seven percent more initial lumens in
the vertical position and 11 percent more in the horizontial position
than competitive lamps.
EYE Lighting
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The Concealed Emergency Light (CEL) Series from Sure-Lites is
designed for applications where the finest architectural appearance is
required. This emergency light is fully recessed in the wall or ceiling
and is almost invisible when not in use. When power is lost, the doors
open automatically, lighting a path of egress up to 150 feet from two
powerful MR16 halogen lamps (up to 75W each). The fixture automatically
returns to the closed position when power is restored. The fixtures will
be available mid-summer.Cooper
Lighting
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Philips Lighting previewed a prototype of the EnduraLED at
LightFair. The A-shaped LED bulb produces a record 600 lumen output and
will replace 40W incandescent bulbs in general lighting applications in
the U.S. market and 60W incandescent technology in the European (230V)
market. The bulb is fully dimmable down to 10 percent. Powered by LUXEON
Rebel LEDs from Philips Lumileds, the 8W 120V bulb delivers 75 lumens
per watt -- five times the efficacy of an equivalent incandescent bulb.
The light source is scheduled to be commercially available by late 2010.
Philips
Lighting
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