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American Bright has expanded and improved their innovative solid state replacement lamp capable of replacing inefficient florescent tubes in grocery retailers world-wide.

Chino, Ca. - American Bright Lighting, Inc. today announced its new patent pending, second-generation SimpleTube LED replacement lamps capable of replacing inefficient T-8 fluorescent tubes in large-scale retail refrigerators and freezers. The Improved series offers up to 79% power savings over the commonly used fluorescent tube ballast combinations and, due to lower heat emissions, reduces strain and demand on refrigeration compressors and controls. The series is the industry’s most efficient, consuming as much as 50% less power than comparable LED units from other manufacturers. Additional benefits of the second-generation SimpleTube lamps are longer lifetimes, lower maintenance costs, comprehensive five-year warranty, and significantly better lumen maintenance over the service life.

Independent laboratory testing performed to LM79 confirms an efficacy of up to 61 lumens per watt. The total efficacy of the SimpleTube is nearly twice the efficacy of the other solid state lighting products commercially available for similar applications. SimpleTubes are UL listed, assuring compliance will internationally recognized safety standards, and they are offered in ANSI color bins. The color quality and consistency enhances product appearance and will not degrade appreciably over the 50,000+ hour projected life of the product. The simple tube is available with a number of output angles and lens options, both clear and frosted, to meet the most demanding applications.

American Bright Lighting has also introduced a THD (total harmonic distortion) correction version that complies with emerging regulations and proposed Department of Energy (DOE) specifications. This patent pending feature assures end users of compliance with existing and future regulations regarding the use of AC based LED systems. AC bases LED systems eliminate the need for AC to DC power conversion and secondary driver systems that historically are the “weak link” in other solid state lighting solutions. This innovation keeps the SimpleTube product family ahead of all competing LED products.

Unlike fluorescent lamps which contain significant amounts of mercury and in various areas must be disposed of as hazardous waste via a fluorescent recycling firm, SimpleTube lamps are 100% RoHS compliant, meeting the most stringent global standards for toxin-free materials and manufacturing processes. The toxin-free nature of solid state lamps also renders accidental breakage concerns a thing of the past. When a fluorescent tube is broken in a freezer or refrigerated retail space, all the contents must be discarded, which carries a high cost in not only lost product, but also in lost productivity.

“With average power prices to grocery stores rising in cost by as much as a factor of 6.7 many grocers are looking for other ways to cut costs while still meeting customer expectations,” George Lee, President of American Bright Lighting, noted. “Utility costs can amount to as much as 13% of a retail location’s overall operating expenses,” Lee added. “The Second-Generation SimpleTube addresses not only the environmental concerns that fluorescent tubes create, but also the bottom line reality of rising energy costs,” he concluded.

A white paper report that includes general specifications and related documentation is available from American Bright Lighting directly. This highly detailed white paper contains relevant details (and quoted sources) on the retail lighting market, energy costs/savings, light output of competitive models as well as a number of useful formulas for calculating a return on investment (ROI).

Zumtobel has formed Ledon Lamp GmbH as a sales company for LED lamps, and has announced a development partnership with Lemnis Lighting B.V.

Zumtobel Group, the Austria-based lighting company which specializes in professional light fittings, lighting solutions and lighting components, is set to enter the lamp business for the first time, via the LED retrofit market.

The Group has founded a subsidiary, Ledon Lamp GmbH, based in Dornbirn, Austria, which will promote the sale of a broad portfolio of LED lamps. The product range will focus on retrofit LED lamps to replace conventional incandescent light bulbs (e.g. with E14 or E27 screw caps).

“LEDs are where the future lies,” said Zumtobel Group CEO Andreas Ludwig. “We have built up a leading level of expertise in this technology and we’ll be making use of this knowledge to supply high-quality light bulbs to consumers.”

The LED technology for these lamps will be supplied by the Zumtobel Group subsidiary Ledon Lighting Jennersdorf GmbH, which supplies the Zumtobel Group brands with LED modules and components. The core competency of Ledon Lighting is described as “high-quality white light from LEDs, with expertise in warm-white LEDs and stable, homogenous color distribution.”

Sales of these high-tech LED lamps (initially 5W, 6W and 6W-dimmable versions) will be via retail outlets, such as DIY stores, as well as from sales partners across Europe. Ledon Lamp GmbH is headed up by Detlef Mikulsky and Peter Petz.

Ledon Lighting began production of LED modules for use in retrofit lamps as early as 2008, and has supplied chip-on-board modules to lamp makers such as Lemnis Lighting (see photo). Modules with an efficacy of 100 lm/W and CRI of 90 at 2900K enable lamps with an efficacy of 65 lm/W.

Co-operation with Lemnis Lighting B.V.

Zumtobel has also concluded a development partnership agreement with the Dutch company Lemnis Lighting B.V, which markets various LED retrofit lamps under its Pharox brand name (see also the Lemnis press release).

Lemnis and Ledon will jointly develop a full-line portfolio of technologically advanced and high quality LED-based lamps for residential and professional use. The lamps, designed to replace not only conventional light bulbs but also halogen spots, is to be marketed by both companies under the Ledon and Pharox brands.

Under the terms of the agreement, Zumtobel Group companies are also defined as a preferred supplier for Lemnis Lighting.

“Ledon and Lemnis are the perfect partners to drive the breakthrough of the LED lamp,” said Zumtobel’s Ludwig. “Our joint strategic goal is to build up a significant volume of business in the lamp market.”

Lemnis Lighting CEO Remko Gaastra described the deal as “a further step in our strategy to form strong partnerships with key players in the industry to enable fast technology and product development.”

NxGen Technologies, Inc. has developed environmentally-friendly, replacement lamps for the S14 shaped incandescent light bulbs commonly found in decorative lighting applications. The lamps consume less than one watt of electricity compared to as much as the 11 - 15 watts normally consumed by incandescent bulbs of this type, while giving off the same amount of light.

“These bulbs have been designed to pay for themselves with energy savings in less than one year, depending upon local electricity rates,” says David Allen, president of NxGen Technologies. “This is very important to users who do not want to spend more money in order for their businesses to ‘go green.’ And, the lamp has been designed to last up to 40,000 hours – this amounts to an enormous energy savings over a very long period of time.”

The S14s developed by NxGen Technologies come in all of the popular transparent and opaque (ceramic) colors and, according to the manufacturer, are indistinguishable from their incandescent counterparts. “The ceramic red, yellow, and white colors appear identical to the incandescent bulbs in a side-by-side comparison while the ceramic blue and green are clearly brighter and more vivid than the incandescent bulbs,” adds Mr. Allen.

Common applications for the S14 include decorative lighting found in restaurants, bars, theater signage and marquees, shopping malls, casinos, shop windows, festivals, and amusement parks. “Amusement parks are a good example,” continues Mr. Allen. “An amusement park that uses 10,000 or more lights can save more than 100,000 watts of electricity per hour (10.4 watts per lamp per hour). Savings such as this really add up,” Mr. Allen concludes.

It’s not often that a lamp that isn’t a dock gets written about in a tech story, but the uniqueness of this LED is just so cool and innovative that it is just impossible to ignore. Don’t let the $338 price tag scare you, it is actually worth it to many and surely provides a wow factor for any desk oriented exec.
This lamp claims to be the first light of its kind to meet all the Department of Energy’s criteria for an LED task light. That and it is gorgeous in a high tech sort of way.
Element’s breakthrough technology makes a usable white light from an LED; its “MCX LED Technology utilizes a single multi-chip LED that produces a large footprint of bright neutral-white 3500 Kelvin light that meets guidelines for comfortable ergonomic reading”. This is different from other LED lamps that use more than one LED which in turn throw multiple shadows.

The cool LED (literally and figuratively) is rated for 60,000 hours or 6.8 years of continuous use. Put another way, if you use it for 8 hours a day, you won’t have to mess with it for 30 years. After that you can actually replace the chip. Assuming they still make them by then. This too is novel as all other LED lamps make you throw the whole thing out when it dies. Of course did I mention all this sucks only 7watts of power to throw the equivalent lumens of a 70watt light bulb? Since this going to be around for the next 30 years or so, be happy it is made of aluminum (81% recycled) so it should hold up its finish.
The lamp comes with a 10 year warranty on all components and a variety of plugs for international use in case you get transferred to China. The lamp comes in all silver or silver with white trim (to match your Mac?). As far as moving it around—for all you diamond setters, it has 135-degree front-to-back head tilt, 90-degree side-to-side head rotation and 360-degree swivel from the base. Its dimensions are: 18-28″w x 18-28″h with an 8-inch-diameter base. At the moment it is only available through a few places and is supposed to cost $338, but we found it for $237 at www.worksafetech.net. But wow, will you get a lot of mileage from the eco planet saving cool geek factor.