led light: Lamina Ceramics Introduces New Ultra-Bright LED Light Engines
Frankfurt am Main, April 25, 2006 — Lamina Ceramics, manufacturer of award-winning solid-state light sources, are debuting now at the Light+Building International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with a new line of ultra-bright LED light engines including a record-setting warm white model designed to replace halogen and tungsten filament competitors and a powerful "daylight white" model designed to replace fluorescent. Up to twice as bright but with the identical footprint of the company's award-winning BL-4000 line — smaller than a U.S. Nickel — the new Atlas line also features an RGB LED light engine generating any of 16,000,000 blendable colors, including white.
The new Atlas Warm White is the first in a long-sought new generation of ultra-bright LED light sources with warm color temperatures. Producing more than 100 lumens, Atlas' enhanced red and orange color spectrum provides light output similar to a 10-watt halogen bulb but uses little more than half the power and lasts 3-4 times as long.
"Until now, high power white-light output by LEDs has largely been confined to color temperatures above 5,000 K — cool light similar to fluorescent lamps," noted David McConaghy, Lamina’s vice president of sales. "As lighting designers know, cool white light, while perfect for many application such as office lighting, is generally not welcome for illumination the more intimate interior spaces of home and leisure — most people prefer a warmer light for reading, desk illumination and dinning. Perhaps that’s also because many fabrics, furnishings, textiles, woods — and yes, people — simply do not look very appealing under cool white light".
Frankfurt am Main, April 25, 2006 — Lamina Ceramics, manufacturer of award-winning solid-state light sources, are debuting now at the Light+Building International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with a new line of ultra-bright LED light engines including a record-setting warm white model designed to replace halogen and tungsten filament competitors and a powerful "daylight white" model designed to replace fluorescent. Up to twice as bright but with the identical footprint of the company's award-winning BL-4000 line — smaller than a U.S. Nickel — the new Atlas line also features an RGB LED light engine generating any of 16,000,000 blendable colors, including white.
The new Atlas Warm White is the first in a long-sought new generation of ultra-bright LED light sources with warm color temperatures. Producing more than 100 lumens, Atlas' enhanced red and orange color spectrum provides light output similar to a 10-watt halogen bulb but uses little more than half the power and lasts 3-4 times as long.
"Until now, high power white-light output by LEDs has largely been confined to color temperatures above 5,000 K — cool light similar to fluorescent lamps," noted David McConaghy, Lamina’s vice president of sales. "As lighting designers know, cool white light, while perfect for many application such as office lighting, is generally not welcome for illumination the more intimate interior spaces of home and leisure — most people prefer a warmer light for reading, desk illumination and dinning. Perhaps that’s also because many fabrics, furnishings, textiles, woods — and yes, people — simply do not look very appealing under cool white light".
