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Did You Know?
- Manufacturer’s Rated Life claims are actually educated forecasts based on only 6,000 hours of testing
- Power Factors (PF) and Total Harmonic Distortion(THD) are critical technical specifications that must be properly evaluated in any LED solution
- An Extruded aluminum heat sink has 20-30% more thermal conductivity than a die-cast heat sink
- An anodized heat sink has 100X greater thermal conductivity than a powder coated one
- The spacing of LED diodes in a fixture is critical to achieving proper thermal management
- The power supply is the number one cause of failure in a fixture
Did You Know?
- Efficacy (lumens/watt) varies dramatically between manufacturers. The higher the efficacy, the higher the savings
- Most warranties are longer than the age of the manufacturer
- The number of qualified products on the Design Lights Consortium (DLC) list grows by 50% a year
- Most LED proucts have an .ies file which is used in photo-metric analysis to model what a space will look like after install
Did You Know?
- It can take you over three times as long to implement a lighting solution on your own!
- Installing a LED solution is more similar to implementing an IT project than a traditional lighting project
- A LED diode is actually a semi-conductor that has the same principals as Moore's Law
- The process for getting Rebates and Incentives for lighting can be more time consuming than installing your whole project