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50mm acrylic collimators for CoB LEDs

Steve Bush — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:38:19 +0000

Gaggione has created a series of 50mm acrylic optical collimators for LED lighting. Called HADAR50, they are intended to be used with white and tuneable white chip-on-board LEDs with light ...

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Amber lenses make LED streetlights better for nature and architecture

Steve Bush — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:59:02 +0000

Gaggione has introduced coloured lenses for LED streetlight to emulate older lighting styles and reduce wildlife disturbance. There are two tints: amber-yellow and amber-orange, and they are found in its ...

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Canadian Destroyers get LED lighting

Steve Bush — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:35:52 +0000

Marl International and Apex Industries are to light three destroyers for the Royal Canadian Navy with LEDs. Interior and exterior lighting of each warship will be marine-grade LED, and lighting ...

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Narrower beams from Gaggione

Steve Bush — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:20:29 +0000

Gaggione is focussing on narrower beams with two acrylic collimators and a set of radial beam masks. LLC22R (pictured) is a 16mm collimator claimed to achieve ±4.45° (8.9° FWHM) and ...

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Circular emitter LEDs for beam-forming

Steve Bush — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:31:58 +0000

Cree has introduced a pair of circular emitter LEDs with no over-die lens for beam-forming applications. Colour temperature options are 5,000, 5,700 or 6,000K. “These LEDs deliver smoother, more focused ...

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How not to attract birds to off-shore platforms

Steve Bush — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:30:14 +0000

How do you stop migrating birds from being attracted to oil rigs at night? The reasons that they should not land are two-fold: the mess that they make adds to ...

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Cree boosts horticultural red led efficiency

Steve Bush — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:53:18 +0000

Cree is aiming at horticulture lighting with a 660nm red led that is 6% more efficient than its XP-G3 Photo Red S Line devices. Called the XP-L Photo Red S Line, ...

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LED streetlight lenses from recycled plastic

Steve Bush — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:50:04 +0000

Gaggione is offering versions of its Avika range of LED streetlight lenses made using recycled plastic. We are “incorporating recycled PMMA into our range, derived from recycled industrial scraps”, according ...

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Zhaga standard for linear socketable LED modules

Steve Bush — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:19:43 +0000

LED lighting body Zhaga has released a standard for ‘linear socketable LED modules for non-SELV applications’ – Zhaga Book 26 – intended luminairs with LED modules that can be replaced ...

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Cree boost output of XE-G colour led range

Steve Bush — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:20:38 +0000

Cree LED has up-graded its 1.6 x 2.05mm lens-less XE-G led family, claiming a 20% increase in efficiency for RGBW systems, and a 10% or higher efficiency gain for 13 ...

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