The End of the LED Manufacturing Boom
January 31, 2019
The LED manufacturing boom has been driven by the strong demand for LED lighting products over the past 5 years. This has resulted in the rapid expansion of the Chinese manufacturing companies that build LED lighting components and lamps. However, it seems that market forces have now changed and this period of rapid expansion has …
On Energy Star v2.0
December 21, 2016
Starting on January 2, 2017 Energy Star v2.0 will replace the current v1.1 standard as the qualifying directive for all light bulbs and lamps sold in the United States. No products which are currently qualified to bear the Energy Star logo under the current standard will be allowed to retain the qualification after January 1, …
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
October 31, 2016
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are solid-state lighting devices that are very different from conventional LEDs both in terms of physical appearance and in terms of performance characteristics. OLEDs are larger in surface area but much thinner than LEDs. OLEDs are lower in luminance and produce light which is more diffuse in appearance. The physical nature …
On LED Dimmability
September 30, 2016
LED lighting has a number of strong economic and environmental advantages, but if there could be said to be a weakness of LED lighting, that weakness would be dimmability. When LED lamps first entered the market, they were pretty much undimmable. They performed very poorly and unreliably when used with existing in-wall dimmer controls. Even …
Water Treatment
August 24, 2016
Ultraviolet water treatment is a technology that is gaining rapid acceptance in America. Even though this water purification technology has been around since the 1930’s, and is already widely deployed throughout Canada and Europe, few large-scale municipal water treatment systems in the United States currently make use of UV disinfection. Most of the UV water …
On Color Temperature
July 11, 2016
The subject of color temperature, which is the color of the light produced by various lighting products, is an area of considerable uncertainty and confusion for many of our customers. The primary source of confusion about light color is that manufacturers in the lighting industry use many different names for the different light colors as …
A Case for LED Case Lights
June 20, 2016
Refrigerator and freezer grocery case lighting was one of the first lighting applications in which the LED alternative to fluorescent tubes gained a foothold. LEDs have several distinct advantages when used in grocery display case lighting. LEDs offer reliable operation and long-life in the cold environment. Unlike the traditional fluorescent tube case lights they replace, …
A Wave of Growth
May 16, 2016
The worldwide market for LED agricultural grow lighting surpassed $400 million last year. By the year 2021, analysts at Custom Market Insights have forecast that this will grow to $1.8 billion in total sales. This accelerating growth is due to the combination of performance and efficiency offered by the next generation LED grow lighting systems …
A Greener Spring
April 18, 2016
All of us here at Wholesale Lighting are feeling reinvigorated by the warmth of springtime and the return of fair weather to Northwest Ohio. The beginning of spring allows us to shake off the cold-weather blues and begin spending time outside once again. It also brings with it the return of outdoor recreation. Along with …