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Videos

Year 2009

 

Rate video review of the Mag-Lite Solitaire (not LED upgrade)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Jun 8

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By rss@youtube.com (polonium9) Author: polonium9 Keywords: flashlight review Mag-lite solitaire incandescent LED Added: June 8, 2009

Rate Video: Rancho Cucamonga Christmas Light Display 2008 - Carol of the BellsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Jan 16

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By rss@youtube.com (aaura1) This display has over 80,000 LED & incandescent lights sychronized to the song Carol of the Bells. This was possible using Light-O-Rama software and controller boxes - 280 channels in all were used to control the lights. Keywords: Light-O-Rama LOR christmas lights animated display...

Rate Video: Warm White; LED Rope Light; 3 Wires with 8Function ControllerVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Jan 6    7 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (orangetreetrade) www.orangetreetrade.com Warm white LED, with color temperature 2800K emits incandescent white which is similar to studio light or household light. It is manufactured by InGaN technology which is trustable and sophisticated, producing the exact white color we expect. The warm white lig...

Rate Video: LED Project: Christmas LEDs in my room!Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Dec 31

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By rss@youtube.com (aclion) this is a video of me utilizing white LED Christmas lights as an alternative to an incandescent bulb to achieve a cool ambient effect. Please note this entry is NOT intended as a set of instructions to be mimic by anyone else. it is NOT advertised as a D.I.Y. (do it yourself) project. if you decide to...

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Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Dec 10

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By rss@youtube.com (ecogeeky) EcoGeek.org shows the difference between incandescent, CFL and LED light bulbs in light quality, brightness and (of course) energy use. Author: ecogeeky Keywords: cfl Added: December 10, 2008

Rate Video: Lights and Sounds of Christmas, Animated Christmas Lights.Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Dec 7

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By rss@youtube.com (alttab70) Lights and Sounds of Christmas. Animated Musical Christmas Lights. All lights are up! 6400 LED and incandescent mini's. FM transmitter providing the music. Author: alttab70 Keywords: Musical Christmas Lights. Lights and Sounds of Christmas. Added: December 7, 2008

Rate Video: LED Traffic LightsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Sat, Nov 1

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brLEDtronics announces 12inch 300mm Type 1 and Type 2 TrafficLED direct incandescent replacement lamps designed to accommodate preexisting traffic signal enclosures Using Indium Gallium Aluminum Phosphide InGaAlP and Indium Gallium Nitride InGaN Light Emitting Diode LED techn...

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Oct 30

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By rss@youtube.com (resourcesmart) Transcript: I commit to putting LED lights in instead of incandescent, and saving energy. Author: resourcesmart Keywords: Sustainability Victoria ResourceSmart Victorian Government State Save Water Energy Exhibition Added: October 30, 2008

Rate Video: LED BULBSVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Thu, Oct 9

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are the new age trend for green solutions, for its initials in English L = Light, E = Emitter, D= Diode. Thus an LED is NOT a light bulb but an electronic component, a semiconductor that has been designed to produce a bright light. To the contrary of a regular incandescent or fluorescent bulbs,...

Rate Video: inTRIKat "Incandescent" (experimenting with LED)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Tue, Oct 7

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Unknown length - 2008-10-08 inTRIKat.net in/can/des/cent adj 1.) emitting light as a consequence of being heated to a high temperature 2.) shining or glowing brightly Pete Brandt filmed in San Francisco, California by Dan Goldwater. 2008

Rate Video: CFL Toxic Mercury Vs LED TechnologyVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Mon, Oct 6

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Unknown length - 2008-10-06 http://www.Section9Led.com LED technology unlike fluorescent and compact fluorescent utilizes no toxic mercury or glass. LED light bulbs can save you up to 87% of your energy costs when compared to standard incandescent light bulbs.

Rate Video: Green Building Design Features: LED LightingVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Grouper external link    Wed, Mar 5

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By info@crackle.com (cleanairgardening) http://www.cleanairgardening.com/lighting.html LED lighting is quickly coming to the forefront of green building lighting. These bulbs use very little energy and don't get hot, like incandescent lights, keeping energy cooling bills down.

Stories

May of 2009

 

Rate Giz Explains: What's So Great About LED-Backlit LCDs

Original at Gizmodo external link    Wed, May 27

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By matt buchanan LEDs (light emitting diodes) are different from say, an old school incandescent bulb, which heats up a filament to generate light, in that they're electroluminescent—electricity passes through a semiconductor and the movement of the electrons just lights it up. Instead of having one...

Rate NM energy program gets stimulus funding

Original at KVIA external link    Wed, May 13

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KRQE  TX Bill Richardson's office says older, incandescent bulbs will be replaced with LED bulbs, which use significantly less electricity. Richardson says the documented savings from switching to LED bulbs at a traffic intersection is at least 80% compared to ...

Rate Cree, Inc. to Webcast Upcoming Conference Presentations - GlobeNewsWire

Original at Primenewswire external link    Wed, May 13

GlobeNewsWire (press release), CA Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, ...

Rate Couple takes advantage of the green side of the sun

Original at Norwich Bulletin external link    Tue, May 12

 CT DeWalt has some LED light bulbs but thinks the technology has a way to go before LED becomes practical for home lighting. Both CFL and LED technology produce light with less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, but they also produce less heat, ...

Rate GE Jasco Adds LED, Z-Wave Lighting Devices

Original at Electronic House external link    Tue, May 12

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 MA Designed to replace your current light switches, the On/Off Switches ($59.99 for a standard switch and $79.99 for a three-way switch), enable wireless control of incandescent, LED, xenon and halogen fixtures, and are two of few switches able to control ...

Rate Try-It-Out-Tuesday: Daylite Flashlight

Original at WCPO external link    Tue, May 12

 OH You can see the difference between the LED light it supplies and a typical incandescent beam flashlight. The Daylite clearly outshines the competition. And, because it is LED, the batteries should last much longer. We found it for about $23 on Amazon, ...

Rate Industry Looks to LED Bulbs for the Home

Original at New York Times external link    Sun, May 10

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Much of the industry's effort is aimed at making LED lamps that emit as much light as a 60- or 75-watt incandescent bulb. Cree, a leading maker of LEDs, showed a new version of its LED ceiling fixture that uses 6.5 watts, compared with 11 watts for ... LED Light Bulbs coming soon Thaindian.com

Rate Making 'green' choices isn't as simple as it seems

Original at Oshkosh Northwestern external link    Sun, May 10

 WI Eventually both CFLs and incandescent bulbs probably will be replaced by solid-state, or LED, lighting. But until then, environmental groups generally advocate consumers use CFLs, though people with children will want to take extra caution. ...

Rate LED lighting: panel debates quality versus cost

Original at EDN.com external link    Fri, May 8

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Only the US appears to be lagging in that trend. Sillevis-Smitt added that if you explore homes in Europe, you will find no incandescent bulbs, and pretty much every lamp will be on a dimmer. “In Europe, consumers compare against a gu10 halogen lamp ...

Rate Compact fluorescent lights hit a wall

Original at MarketWatch external link    Fri, May 8

For this reason and others, Congress in 2007 approved a phase-out of incandescent bulbs starting with the 40-watt bulb in 2012. Begley, who owns an electric car that he uses solar cells to recharge, said LED light bulbs could eventually take their ...

Rate Light Bulb Makers Talking Trash

Original at New York Times external link    Thu, May 7

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A few companies peddling their cutting-edge, LED lighting products at this year's Lightfair resorted to trashing — literally — fluorescent and incandescent lamps in their sales pitches. A transparent trash pail filled with standard and CFL bulbs, ...

Rate LED lighting saves money on long run

Original at Canada.com external link    Thu, May 7

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Ideally, you'll have an LED lighting system with fixtures properly designed to give you the full lifespan of the LED bulb. LEDs are currently more expensive than CFLs or incandescent bulbs, no question. And, since it's new technology they may be hard ...

Rate UCLA Physicists Create World's Smallest Light Bulb

Original at RedOrbit external link    Thu, May 7

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Inventors are currently trying to figure out how to make LED lights cheap enough to take over the job of lighting homes and offices so that society can move away from wasteful incandescent bulbs. The National Science Foundation funded the study. ...

Rate Nexxus Lighting and QD Vision Unveil World’s First Commercial Quantum Dot / LED Lamp Line

Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) external link    Tue, May 5

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ:NEXS) and QD Vision, Inc. today unveiled the world’s first quantum dot lighting solution that combines the efficiency of LED lighting with the warm color of incandescent bulbs. The new lamp integrates a quantum dot optic with cool white LEDs to produce color...

Rate T8 LED Fluorescent Lights replace conventional lighting. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room

Original at ThomasNet Industrial News Room external link    Sun, May 3

Product lines include modular, open frame & enclosed ... more Manufacturer of a variety of lighting products including LED, fluorescent, incandescent, UV Black & ... more Distributor of lighting systems including light bulbs, lamps, lights, ballasts, ...

Year 2009

 

Rate LED Lighting Gaining Acceptance (Sort Of)

Original at New York Times external link    Wed, Apr 29

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Cree, a lighting company, has announced a reflector lamp that it says produces a similar look to a halogen lamp, uses 12 watts, and can replace up to a 90-watt incandescent lamp.) Are LED lamps ready for the consumer? Hardly. ... Source/Type: Solid State Lighting Design LED Lighting News ... Solid...

Rate Opinion: Environmental agency offers tips for cutting carbon emissions

Original at eTaiwan News external link    Tue, Mar 24

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MiamiHerald.com  Taiwan Replacing two five watt incandescent light bulbs with two 0.8 watt LED light bulbs could cut emissions by 0.13 kg for every 24 hours of use, while replacing one 7.2 watt incandescent night light bulb with a 0.8 watt LED light bulb could produce 0.03 kg ...

Rate Toolbox: Portable lighting

Original at MAKE Magazine external link    Mon, Feb 9

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By Gareth Branwyn One overlooked factor in the working environment is often adequate lighting. I was amazed, after years of haphazard lighting on my bench (from nothing but ambient overhead lighting, to a cheap incandescent clip on, to a floor lamp next to my desk), when I got a good swing-arm, bright flore...

Rate Opinion: Leo Hickman on ecofriendly lightbulbs

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Wed, Jan 7

By Leo Hickman The packaging should always tell you the equivalent wattage of the bulb. In general terms, CFLs use 65-80% less power than an incandescent bulb. Therefore, a CFL marked as "100W" could need as little as 20 watts of power. There are even some newer bulbs that use LED (light emitting diode) tech...

Rate For an even greener holiday, get the LED(s) out

Original at Consumer Reports Home & Garden external link    Tue, Dec 16

As we noted last year in our review of holiday lights, in which we compared mini and standard-size incandescent light strings with LED light strand, LED lights use a lot less energy than traditional holiday lights. Lots of people have apparently switched over to these energy-efficient l...

Rate EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger

Original at Gizmodo external link    Tue, Jul 22

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By Jason Chen The incandescent lightbulb wastes 90% of the electricity as heat is dying, we all know that. But a new breakthrough in solid state lighting might also kill compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) faster than some expected. Scientists at Purdue University have figured out how to manufactu...

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