Issue One Plug and play… latest light engine solutions Quick and easy colour mixing solutions (page 4) (pages 8 and 11) LUXEON®-based LUXEON Rebel ® leading the LED revolution! (page 6) Making LED Lighting Solutions Simple™ underwater floodlights replace halogen (page 10)
Expert lighting centre offers proof-of-concept capabilities Future Lighting Solutions runs the Lighting Resource Centre (LRC) for customers developing LUXEON® LED applications. With two dedicated LRCs, based in Montreal and Shenzen in China, as well as a Solutions Design Centre (SDC) in London, Future Lighting Solutions has a wealth of resources to enable and accelerate market adoption.
Welcome to Lumenate Dear readers, welcome to the first edition of Lumenate magazine. Since we launched Future Lighting Solutions seven years ago, the humble LED has gone from being a simple indicator lamp to what is recognised as the next generation lighting source. The technology has developed at an amazing rate. When Future Lighting Teresa Gibson Solutions first launched, the typical performance of a LUXEON LED was 13.
LED controller family offers quick and easy colour mixing Achieving consistent colour performance with LED design requires a complex set of calculations to account for a variety of factors, such as LED bin information and colour shift over temperature. The EZ-Color LED controller family from Cypress Semiconductor, supported by the PSoC Express™ embedded visual design tool, allows engineers to produce a complete design solution simply by inputting the selected LEDs and choosing a desired colour.
Switching regulators reduce battery count in portable lamps Driving a power LED from a battery Low-cost, constant-current DC-DC converters help to solve Unlike a bulb, you cannot connect an LED directly to a voltage issues related to LED drive, battery life and overall size and source, as this would result either in the LED not lighting up or, weight. Typical ZXSC400 and ZXSC310 boost converter potentially, blowing up.
Can a rebel start a revolution? Ultra-compact, high power, and with industry-leading flux density. The LUXEON® Rebel boasts an impressive specification, but what does that mean to the designer? Lighting designers will always want to get the most from light sources. For high-power LEDs that means delivering more light from a smaller package. The first and most obvious advantage the LUXEON Rebel offers on this front, is a footprint of just 3mm x 4.5mm.
Defining the colours Bin Warm White Neutral White Cool White 3000K 4100K 6500K Bin Royal Blue Blue 470nm 455nm Bin Green Cyan Red 530nm 505nm 627nm RedOrange 617nm Amber 590nm G 40 40 40 A 175mW 8.2 E H 50 50 50 B 225mW 10.7 F J 60 C 275mW 13.9 G 40 50 K 70 70 D 18.1 H L 80 80 E 23.5 J 23.
Mid-power LEDs higher drive currents Designed as an extension to the current PLCC-4 series, Avago’s 0.5W mid-power LEDs utilise improved package design and heat dissipation to operate at higher drive currents. Critically, this results in improved light output and flux performance compared with PLCC-4 surface-mount LEDs available from other manufacturers.
Efficient LED-ballast design with power regulators With the proliferation of high-luminosity LEDs, the lighting industry is now moving towards compact Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) to provide efficiency. ON Semiconductor power regulators offer a simple and economical way to design power supplies that comply with stringent energy-saving requirements. The proprietary high-voltage technology includes a 700V power MOSFET with a start-up current source, all directly connected to a bulk capacitor.
CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS PARTNER LED underwater lighting replaces halogen Development of a high-power LED swimming-bath floodlight to reduce maintenance cost, lower power consumption and improve colour rendering In 2004 MAL Effekt-Technik undertook the challenge of creating a high-power LED swimming-bath floodlight to replace existing halogen lighting. The aim was to create a module fitting the standard mounting of a 150W halogen-based underwater floodlight with comparable or improved quality illumination.
Modular RGB light engines LinkLED™ RGB light engines enable OEMs to easily construct full colour-change applications using LED technology. With simple plug and socket connections, they can be used for a wide range of applications, including architectural detail lighting and signage. These modules are supplied ready to use, complete with plug and socket connections, and thermal adhesive for direct assembly on metal surfaces.
Product Directory LED Thermal Driver Thermal tape available • Advance • • • • • • • TIR lenses • • • • • • • • • Cypress Dialight Lumidrives • • • • • • • • • • • • • Fraen • • • I2 Systems • • • • • • • • • ISO/TS16949 Automotive compliant • Microchip • • • •• • • • National NXP On Semi • • • Philips Lumileds Polymer • • • • • • Lines, rings, arrays.
