The Supernova LED Grow Light Provides Benefits to Indoor Growers

Indoor gardeners are agog with the introduction of the latest LED grow light to hit the market--the Supernova LED. This family of LED grow lights offers improved light output for a fraction of the cost of using HID or other ordinary types of grow lights. Gardeners are impressed with its light coverage, increased light spectrum control, and cool running temperatures, among a wealth of improvements it brings to ordinary grow lamps.

The Supernova LED grow light offers an increased light coverage when compared with other LED grow lights. While other good LED grow lights offer a three foot by three foot area with good light coverage, the Supernova LED adds an additional two feet to that, for a total of five square feet of coverage area. All this light comes from a lighting unit that is space saving yet very powerful. The Supernova LED grow light achieves this large coverage through the clever use of seven individual circuit boards. This allows the light to flow out of the unit at different angles, and this unique design provides for its improved light coverage that your plants will appreciate.

When you purchase an ordinary grow lamp, it comes with a particular color temperature and color tone built in. This is also the case with the Supernova LED grow light, but with the major benefit of allowing you the flexibility to change the color spectrum as you wish. This is accomplished through independently adjustable spectrum control. In addition to this flexibility, the Supernova LED also comes in an enhanced spectrum version, providing you with six more custom LED light spectrums at your fingertips. While young plants require the blue light spectrum for growth, mature plants need red and orange light in order to produce fruits and flowers, so if you can adjust your light to meet their specific needs, they will experience much better growth rates. The unique Supernova LED grow light allows you to fine tune your light to exactly what your plants require, unlike any other grow light available.

Ordinary grow lights have a side effect, after being on for a length of time, of increasing heat temperature, so much so that extra equipment must be brought in in order that the lighting equipment does not overheat and malfunction. LED grow lights such as the Supernova LED avoid this issue because they have fans built into the units. This keeps the Supernova LED lights cool, and avoids entirely the need for ducting and air-cooled reflectors, which offers a tremendous cost savings to you, the indoor gardener.

A Supernova LED grow light is a new innovation in indoor gardening lighting that will offer superb lighting for your plants while saving you money.

Growing Penetration of LED Lights in the Market

Growing demands for consumption of electricity in commercial buildings, especially in advanced economies like United States has prompted led bulb manufacturers to come up with led bulbs. They are good for energy saving and highly durable. The LED lights benefit the consumer in energy saving as well as lets them have a higher life span of the bulb used.

Scientists all over the world predict that led bulb will be occupying 46% of the commercial building lamp market by 2020. It is no mean achievement considering their appearance in the market is of comparatively recent origin.

Around 17% of the global electricity consumption hovers round lighting. In advanced economies, the light consumption relates mostly to the commercial buildings. Such requirements have prompted the led bulb manufacturers to use light emitting diodes as technology as well as the development of solid state lighting patterns.

Not only the led bulbs are highly energy saving but are also extremely durable in nature. Thus there is a two way advantage for the end users. In fact some of the companies have recently come up with bulbs that have an amazing life span of 17 years. Benefits of these bulbs for the commercial sector where the consumption of electricity is a bare necessity are immense.

A recent survey report by Pike Research indicates that LED lights are going to assume great importance in the market in near future. It is also assessed that in the $4.4 billion U.S market for lamps that includes industrial, commercial as well as outdoor sanitary sectors in the industry; led bulb manufacturers will be having lion's share of around 46% by 2020.

Since the solid state lightings cost less in comparison while delivering an improved performance, LED lights are likely to turn to be a practical option for most of the commercial organizations in the world. They are already widely used for running the traffic lighting systems as well as the exit sign lightings. It is estimated by experts that the usage will soon extend to the retail and office buildings; both professional as well as institutional. All these facts indicate that led light manufacturers are going to be the torch bearer for the lighting industry in future.

Reason for such expectations among the experts in the field is that as each field would be saturated one after another, led bulbs will enter into yet another field that remains hitherto unexplored. Since they are not only less expensive but durable, they can serve multiple purposes very efficiently. In fact, they make ideal lighting system for all the public requirements including street lighting, commercial hoardings, sign boards as well as the lighting of commercial complexes.

It does not mean that there is no downside of the led lighting system or the led light manufacturers do not have to face any problems. On the contrary, they have to address multiple technological as well as economic hurdles to come through with flying colors. Of course the technology and cost efficacy of the solid state lighting is rapidly improving. That is why it will be still sometime before the led lights take the lead in the lighting industry.

Yet the future is bright and quite predictable. Just as the fluorescent T8 and T5 lamps overtook the incandescent lamps; led bulbs are likely to overtake all others in the fray.

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LED lighting market in the essential development of the "three phase"

[Abstract] With the gradual development of LED lighting, auxiliary lighting in the lighting project and other public places, LED gradually replace some of the traditional light source products. 2009, LED lighting began to enter the main popularity in developed countries. The higher the tariffs, the use of longer places of business applications, LED lamps quickly became the new darling of the market. As the use of LED lighting, LED market development in several stages.
With LED Lighting  The progressive development of the auxiliary lighting lighting projects and other public places, LED lighting gradually replace some of the traditional light source products. With the gradual development of LED lighting, auxiliary lighting in the lighting project and other public places, LED lighting gradually replace some of the traditional lighting products. 2009, LED lamps into the main lighting in the developed countries began to spread. The market for LED lighting products have a certain amount of recognition and acceptance. Green LED lamps, small size, high reliability and other features gradually becoming prominent.




With the gradual development of LED lighting, auxiliary lighting in the lighting project and other public places, LED gradually replace some of the traditional light source products. 2009, LED lighting began to enter the main popularity in developed countries. The higher the tariffs, the use of longer places of business applications, LED lamps quickly became the new darling of the market. As the use of LED lighting, LED market development in several stages.
The first stage, LED lamps utility model stage.
In the last phase, based on the market for LED lighting products have a certain amount of recognition and acceptance. Green LED lamps, small size, high reliability and other features gradually becoming prominent. Thus completely different from the traditional development of a series of products will become predominant light sources. Lighting industry, there will be a more open space for development. Illumination light source is no longer only have a role in changing it makes people work more closely the life bit by bit. The fight is to design application vendors advantage.
The second stage, LED lighting intelligent control stage.
Things such as the development of new technologies, LED as the semiconductor industry, high-speed trains will also catch this tour, to play its high controllability characteristics. From home to office, from roads to the tunnel, from cars to walking, from the auxiliary lighting to the main lighting, with intelligent control of the LED lighting system will lead to higher levels of human services. LED lighting products industry will also be made to the design of products, to provide total solution process.
The third stage, LED lamps instead accept the stage.
This stage is early in the development of LED lighting, mainly reflects its high luminous efficiency (energy consumption), and long life. Because the price was high, so at this stage mainly for business according to the market. A process of customer acceptance, the first is to use the habits and appearance of the transition and acceptance. Consistent with the use of traditional light sources under, LED lighting reflects the energy-saving, long life and other features make it relatively easy to accept the market at high prices. Especially in commercial applications. Is the quality of the vendor to fight price advantage.

Shanghai World Expo will help people of LED lighting into the home three to five years

LED lighting technology by night this reporter Chen Huanhuan Expo Axis / Photography

Zhangjiang, Shanghai high-tech enterprises to gather. Shanghai Semiconductor Lighting Engineering Research Center here and inconspicuous.

But when the "Science Times" reporter in-depth interview after the discovery, popularization of LED lighting in China may be the hope of a breakthrough from here.

Changes to the platform from the stage

Compared to the hustle and bustle during the day, the Expo is even more evident at night near a distance to see the beauty of tilapia, in addition to "a four-axis Hall" and the Urban Best Practice Area, the park plaza lighting, along the landscape, identity and smart guidance systems are used semiconductor lighting technology. According to preliminary estimates, the entire park LED chips more than the amount of 10 billion, more than 80% of the park's night lighting with LED technology. Can be said that the Expo site has become the world's largest LED demonstration area.

Is a new solid-state LED light source, a small size, low power consumption, long life, fast response, high reliability, has been recognized as a world, the importance of energy saving lighting, materials, and to expand up to speed fast kinds of applications. Currently, the semiconductor lighting has become a national competition in the field of energy-saving technology focus. Internationally, the high-end LED technology continues to progress, with each passing day.

Recently, the "Science Times" reporter learned during an interview in Shanghai, with the opportunity for the World Expo, Shanghai's semiconductor lighting Industry Has been a spurt of development, a group of national business development and growth momentum.

China in 2003 Science and Technology Relevant ministries and local governments jointly set up National Semiconductor Lighting Project Coordination Leading Group, officially launched the National Semiconductor Lighting Project, Ministry of Science and Shanghai became the first approved four national semiconductor lighting industrial bases.

Chinese Academy of Sciences Technical Physics researcher Wei Lu believes that Shanghai World Expo, once again promoting the Shanghai LED industry chain development, and in the post-World Expo era, Shanghai should start LED stage show developed into a true development platform for Shanghai semiconductor lighting industrial technology level to improve and promote Shanghai semiconductor lighting industrial scale development.

Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting Guo Yansheng, director believes that the support of national policy in Shanghai is leading the LED industry, the progress of the country. He said that China is a manufacturing country, semiconductor lighting industry has an unparalleled advantage in the downstream. After years of investment in Shanghai, in the upper, middle and lower reaches have cultivated a group of self-agglomeration Intellectual Property Enterprises, especially in the last 3 years, the Expo focused on a number of technology projects, the next goal is to white LED lighting into millions of households.

Incubator to promote the market

Shanghai Semiconductor Lighting Engineering Research Center in early 2005 by the Shanghai co-sponsored by 17 units set up base there are currently more than 300 enterprises, including Benjamin, think twice, blue, Sapphire is one of the best and other enterprises.

Through 5 years of efforts, the Shanghai semiconductor lighting of public R & D and services platform even better. On this platform, 7 sub-centers and five specialized laboratories dedicated LED products to establish technology, quality and safety standards (specifications) system for product selection of LED products used to provide the scientific side, convenient and uniform standards. Standards have been developed, including electronic detection LED light color standards, LED substrate material standards, LED chip test method standards, LED instantaneous flux test method standards, LED construction and acceptance of standards. Among them, the construction and acceptance criteria have been formally listed in Shanghai local standard, starting May 1 this year, the formal implementation.

This year's guide to science and technology research in 2010 also clearly stated the standard-setting work, as the focus of this year. However, the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting Feng Xiong, assistant director, said the industry update too fast, the basic 3 to 6 months after the performance there are significant changes, many standards have not yet worked out already out of date. "This is a problem emerging industries." He said.

Industry update speed, and more small and medium enterprises, how to promote industrial development?

On this issue, the Shanghai semiconductor lighting industry incubator Liman Ping, chairman of a profound experience: "We have projects in the organization found during the Expo, semiconductor technology, lighting design is very wide, each company has its own technical expertise, can not cover all. Imagine if there is a platform that can integrate expertise from various enterprises for the World Expo in Shanghai semiconductor lighting industry to contribute, it will be wonderful to pieces. "

Thus, the Shanghai semiconductor lighting industry incubator came into being. This is a transformation in order to promote scientific and technological achievements and train high-tech enterprises and entrepreneurs for the purpose of the technology business services center. Technical support under the market docking, shared network of professional and expert advice incubator 4. Through this platform, many SMEs are in this project, the Shanghai World Expo assigned to share.

Liman Ping told "Science Times" reporter, said that participating in projects such as the Theme Pavilion, the incubator companies are formed under the team to undertake the project, finally found a good effect.

"Set up semiconductor lighting incubator, the biggest job is to market-driven." Liman Ping said that many companies are relatively small, it is difficult for the market, it is difficult for government organizations, large projects. If the organization through the project to integrate enterprise resources, these enterprises will be able to undertake large projects. "This is an experience that left the World Expo." She said excitedly.

Large training through the Expo, a group of companies stand out in Line Has a certain reputation in the industry. Next, an incubator and industrial base linkage of the intention and the surface. "We're like a cradle." Liman Ping said, "want to develop stars entrepreneurs, support for enterprises through a variety of faster development. But our principle is that once they grow, and to leave the incubator space to help us provide better business continue to develop. "

Look forward to every household white light illumination

Landscape lighting is currently high domestic chip performance, but the indoor lighting and functional lighting is still lagging behind. China White LED home insufficient technical capacity.

However, the Shanghai World Expo Park, the main road all the steps made by the white LED lighting, saving energy consumption by 70%.

In the exposition of the "Shanghai Eco-Home", including outdoor landscape lighting and interior functionality, including all lighting, white lighting, LED lighting technology are used. Lighting, general manager of the ear on the pine Cao Dong believes that this indicates that functional white lighting into millions of households possible.

Guo Yansheng said that the future in Shanghai, shops, buildings, street lamps, tunnel bridges public works will be able to see more LED applications, such as Chongming Tunnel will be all-LED lighting. The white LED lighting will also be in 3 to 5 years into people's homes.

In fact, the current home of the market is not without LED product sales, but Liman Ping told reporters, consumers, the absence of specialized equipment is difficult to determine the time of purchase there is the problem.

The reporter was informed, in response to the World Expo, Shanghai semiconductor lighting engineering and technology research centers established a set of technical standards system and evaluation system products, services, World Expo LED product testing and evaluation, as the application of LED products to enter the Expo will provide access to services; this system after the Expo will also have to use LED products, evaluation mechanisms, optimization, add the appropriate standards.

Experts said that if this system of promotion, will be able to LED product life, reliability, energy saving, safety, rationality and other aspects of assessment, to determine market access, and promote the healthy development of LED industry.

Germany, the world's shock entertainment center LED landscape walls

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Germany, the world's shock entertainment center LED landscape walls (Photos)

Abstract: LightWild today announced that its O2 World Berlin, Germany, responsible for building entertainment centers and outdoor lighting project was completed and opened in September 10 use, LED landscape wall effect of shock.

Germany, the world's entertainment landscape wall LED

O2 World Berlin, Germany, landscape lighting, LED wall entertainment center

O2 World Berlin, Germany, landscape lighting, LED wall entertainment center

LightWild today announced that its O2 World Berlin, Germany, responsible for the entertainment center (O2 World Arena) architectural exterior lighting project was completed and opened in September 10 use.

The O2 World entertainment center located in front of the lighting landscape facilities, an area of 1400 square meters, by 7000 pixels can be controlled LightWild composition, using a total of 280,000 LED.

O2 World Berlin, Germany, entertainment center will serve as practice ice hockey and basketball teams and competitions using the site, you can also host concerts, concerts and other activities.

2010 Shanghai World Expo LED lighting shine

2010 Shanghai World Expo LED lighting shine
2008 Beijing OlympicsPeriod, from the magnificent opening ceremony to the landmark venues Lighting, To the success of the closing ceremony,LED Lighting Also brought to the world a visual feast. It is reported that in 2010 Shanghai ExpoWill, LED will continue to shine. In the recently held seminar on lighting Shanghai World Expo 2010, ExpoLandscape LightingDesignHas in its profile. Many experts confidence that the application of the Expo LED level of concentration will be less than the Games.

It is understood that at the Expo to make a large area LED applications, the relevantTechnology Continues to mature optimization is the premise. At present, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission hasSemiconductor LightingAs a "special Expo Science and Technology" key focus areas, has supported a number of studies. Many enterprises also have aimed at the business opportunities Expo, trying to break through key technical bottlenecks. According to the Shanghai World Expo will light the chief architect of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, Professor Hao Luoxi introduction, the exposition of the night lighting design will form the three main axes: the Huangpu River, the Expo Axis and pontoons, as well as major countries across the hall in Pudong elevated area trails. These places will be LED lighting, "shine" place. Among them, the Urban Best Practices Area will become a concentrated demonstration area LED.? A? JP? Y? Z? ^? X??? V112664

White LED lighting is the main trend of the future

White LED lighting is the main trend of the future

In many families, institutions, government and industrial applications, high brightness (HB) White LED (LED) is rapidly replacing incandescent lamps. In the past year, the white light LED Lighting System in general lighting applications accounted for more than 50% more than the final color LED applications, application of colored LED lighting, mainly by the beauty of color demand-driven. Growth of white LED lighting, new drivers is simple: lower energy consumption result in lower tariffs.

In many cases, LED high efficiency can reduce power consumption by up to 88%. They also greatly reduce the lighting and power generation and transmission of electrical energy caused by carbon dioxide emissions. According to research firm Strategies Unlimited, 2012, the total high-brightness white LED lighting market is expected to exceed 50 billion dollars, corresponding to the 2009-2012 compound annual growth rate of 28% (CAGR). This is just the beginning, because the LED luminous efficiency continues to accelerate the commercial / residential lighting market from incandescent, fluorescent and high-pressure sodium lamp with high brightness white LED to change at the same time, LED or even from a commercial point of view has become more cost-effectiveness.

According to some calculations, shifted from traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting, LED current global total energy consumption could save up to 10%. With accelerated efforts to reduce the total power generation of carbon dioxide emissions, global lighting energy demand by 10% of the potential of this shift played a great role.

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What factors support such a huge growth potential? First, the current generation of LED luminous efficiency 10 times higher than incandescent, fluorescent and high pressure sodium lamp is (HPS), more than twice, thus greatly reducing the necessary light output (measured in lumens) the necessary power. With the further development of LED, which depend on the efficiency of electric light will continue to increase, and is expected to double within the next few years.

Second, in a very environmentally conscious world, LED lighting does not need treatment, contact and remove the toxic fluorescent mercury vapor in common. Today, most residential lighting systems for cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) with up to 5mg of mercury, which contain more mercury lamp much more!

Third, the incandescent lamp with 1,000 hours each to replace, and sustainable use of fluorescent lamps up to 10,000 hours, compared, LED life over 100,000 hours. In most applications, this allows LED permanently embedded into the final application, without attachments.

Examples include commercial and residential indoor and outdoor lighting, such as street lamps, industrial lighting, and indoor and outdoor such as power plants and refineries and other hazardous environment lighting. Some applications (such as refinery) run 24 hours a day, LED will continue to use up to 11 years, which means they will need replacing. In addition, LED lighting than other types of several small and flat digital level, can create a very flat form factor, so they can be permanently placed in the internal and external applications.

New York, by the high brightness LED lighting of the bridge.

LED's small size also makes LED into the reflector housing can be made more sophisticated, and thus more efficiently focus light. White LED provides pure "full spectrum" white light, there is no gap in chromatography, leading to the need for reliable visual acuity tasks, we can very easily see it. For example, see color wire, colored flags read or distinguish between water vapor and smoke caused by fire. In contrast, high pressure sodium orange light environment to accomplish the same task may be difficult, because in this lighting environment can not accurately distinguish between colors.

With the human eye can detect changes in comparison to, LED but also to a much faster rate of dimming and on / off, which greatly reduces power consumption. LED lighting can be dimming or off, until they are needed, and then immediately switched to the maximum intensity, and fluorescent or high pressure sodium lamps take up to 30 seconds or longer to reach maximum intensity.

However, the lighting system is one of the biggest challenges facing designers is how to optimize all the benefits of the latest generation of LED. Because LED usually need an accurate and efficient DC current source and a dimming method, so LED Driver IC must be designed in a variety of applications to meet those needs. Power solutions must be efficient, robust, very compact and cost-effective. Can be shown to drive lighting from incandescent, fluorescent and high pressure sodium lighting to LED array change, the fastest growing application will appear in the general internal / external lighting applications, because in such applications, the power to save the return is the largest.

Such as small size, long life, low power consumption, easy to transfer the benefits of light and fast turn time has accelerated the high-brightness LED lighting in the industrial and residential lighting applications, and many have been adopted. LED's long life and small size makes the introduction of new applications in a variety of configurations possible, these applications include in the refrigerator white LED lighting in front of the array, as well as illuminate the more complex the entire campus system. Figure 1 below shows the New York Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the bridge entirely by the high brightness LED lighting. LED high efficiency greatly reduces power requirements, and their long life and durability in a relatively harsh marine environment is particularly important.