March Foods, a client of Interior Control Ltd, have been shortlisted for the Industrial Project of the year category at the LUX awards. Good Luck – we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for you. If you want to be in with a chance of an award – (or just saving lots of money) – check out www.interiorcontrol.co.uk for LED Lighting
LED Lighting shortlisted for Industrial Project of the Year!
September 9th, 2011Another reason for using LED Warehouse lights
June 22nd, 2011I just read a very unfortunate article about a trainee electrician injured whilst changing lights in a factory. Health and Safety, yet another reason why we keep talking about LED warehouse lights – you don’t need to change them because they’ll last for years! (and that’s even guaranteed). Many of our clients have realised that if you buy LED lights that are guaranteed and will last 10years+, then you don’t need to keep sending people up on gantry’s, cherry pickers and the like. The lights are better, save you tons of energy (or is that carbon!), and they simply sit up there for many, many years. No more blown bulbs. If you want to read the article it’s here: http://www.shponline.co.uk/incourt-content/full/worker-fell-20ft-from-moving-forklift
Awful quality of some company logo’s!
June 22nd, 2011As part of an exercise I was just doing – I needed to find the logo’s for some of our LED lighting customers. It seems strange to me now that in this age of high quality ‘everything’ many of the customers I was looking for seemed to have very low aulity images for their logo’s. Don’t you think that’s a bit strange? I know that ‘back in my day’ one of the key attributes of a company’s marketing strategy was a very high quality logo – often 1000dpi and over 10000 pixels across. Some I searched for yesterday I was hard pressed to find an image over 180×60 ?? We sell LED Warehouse lighting to large industrial companies, with ATEX versions of most lights. These customers of ours are usually huge – so why no budget for a nice logo? Oh well…..
Isn’t it funny how many people respond to blogs they haven’t read?
June 22nd, 2011I just noticed (after realising that the spam filter isn’t working) that of the 157 comments we had on our LED lighting posts – not one of them was from a human being – they’re all blog robots. Which then got me thinking – why (oh why) would a developer waste their time writing blog robots in the first place. I assumed that the idea of writing blogs was to ‘enthral’, ‘innovate’, ‘create food for thought’ – however, it’s obviously just another way for some loon to create software that just trawls posts and replies with gibberish. I guess us real people should just feel sorry for those out there with a dirth of imagination who can’t actually write. Shame really 
LED headlights trickling down from premium cars
May 26th, 2011That was interesting. Whilst LED headlights have been available in premium models for a while now, Audi are trickling them down to their more mainstream models. Mercedes were the first to introduce LED headlights a while back – other manufacturers followed but there is still a slight issue with the LED vs Xenon battle. Some Xenon’s (the A8 for example) use an adaptive technology so that the lights automatically dip when approaching other cars – they also manipulate the cut-off to reduce dazzle. At the moment though this isn’t available with the LED’s – though they are saying it will come. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/22/47855/led-headlights-beam-beyond-premium-cars.htm.
Dialight DuroSite™ LED High Bay Earns Gold and Platinum in 2011 Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards
May 25th, 2011Another award for our lights. Is is any wonder we’re fitting them into more and more warehouses around the country. It’s a key factor in the take up of LED lighting (especially in a warehouse or a refrigerated environment) that they a) don’t generate a lot of heat, b) use around 66% less energy and c) last so much longer than traditional lights. Just think – if you replace a traditional 400W high bay with one of ours, you’ll save 250W of electricity – and save 80W off your air conditioning!
Hight output LED’s for parking, outside lights etc…
May 25th, 2011That was interesting – http://www.sys-con.com/node/1846934. Company has just introduced a range of high power LED’s for lighting car-parks. LED’s are definitely getting better by the day and are fast becoming the solution for all lighting. We’re already using high power LED’s for our commercial clients – high bay lights and low bay lights in warehouses for example. But the more that come along – the better!
LED’s for the office – at last
May 25th, 2011Just read an interesting article about Cree (one of the leading LED manufacturers) – http://www.yourledlight.com/2011/04/cree-led-takes-aim-at-office-fluorescent-lights/. They’ve come up with some neat LED equivalents for fluorescent lights. Whilst we all know that LED’s are the future of lighting (in our commercial environment they’re just ‘the’ answer), in offices there’s always been a bit of a take up issue. The main reason is that fluorescent lights are actually quite good – they’re fairly energy efficient, last quite well, and (here’s the kicker) are damn cheap – so when you’re looking at lights for the office, most people think ‘ah, what the heck – may as well just buy some more fluoresecents’. Whilst LED’s are actually better – they’re even cheaper to run, last much longer, won’t ‘blow (which if you’re in a manufacturing environment can be a big plus), and don’t go all ‘yellow’ after a while (not to mention tha lack of dead flies – yuk), they are (yes, it’s true) – more expensive. So here’s Cree – coming up with a really great LED light for the office – dimmable, cheap to run. Let’s hope that more people realise the benefits of LED’s in the office now. We’re not so bothered, we provide lights (with Cree chips in I might add) for commercial spaces – where LED is king! It’s in factories where lights may be up at 12m and can’t be changed easily, where cleanliness and quality of light are important that our Dialight LED’s win out. They’re not as cheap as a sodium high bay – but; with 5 years guaranteed good quality light (i.e. the brightness will only dim a little), 60+% saving on energy – typical lifespan exceeding 10 years with no maintenance required (even the ATEX versions) and very little heat generated (great for refrigerated environments) – we’re quite happy that LED is the way to go! eR
LED bulbs for the home – at last!
May 19th, 2011
Just read a really interesting article at http://www.yourledlight.com/2011/04/led-bulbs-that-try-to-please-the-eye/ Seems that someone has finally come up with an LED bulb for replacing your average incandescent light bulb in the home.
For those of you that don’t know, it’s been a bit of a holy grail for LED manufacturers because of the way LED lighting chips work – they don’t give a multidirectional ‘glow’ like a light bulb, they give a tightly directed beam. So, the problem with creating something that works like your average bulb is – how to make it light in all directions.
Well – at last, someone seems to have come up with a solution – and they look pretty funky! So, now (if they are like our commercial LED’s) - you’ll get long life, low energy usage, very low ‘fade’, and almost no heat
generation. Of course, a bulb that lasts 10 years or so isn’t so important in a house – most of our clients though have them up at 12m and it’s a real pain (not to mention expensive) to get them changed. So, you might not see quite the benefit our commercial clients do – but I’ll buy some (I wonder if they can be
dimmed like the commercial ones?) eR
The lighting requirements of Part L of the Building Regulations have tightened.
February 23rd, 2011
No Lightbulb
The requirements applying to lighting efficacy have moved from Approved Document L2A (ADL2A) to a new, second-tier document, Non-Domestic Building Services Compliance Guide (NDBSCG). For general lighting in office, industrial and storage areas, values are expressed in terms of luminaire lumens per circuit-watt. The new values are 55 lm/W, compared with 45 lm/W in the old Part L.
For general lighting in other areas, and display lighting, efficacy is expressed in terms of lamp lumens per circuit-watt. The values have risen from 50 lm/W to 55 lm/W, and 15 lm/W to 22 lm/W respectively. The design of the luminaire is not included.
The new values also apply when lighting is provided or extended in an area greater than 100 m2. This has to be reported to Building Control.
Increasing the installed capacity of lighting may trigger a consequential improvement to other building systems. For example, a lighting system that is extended into a previously unlit space will need to meet the relevant minimum efficacy, prompting a need to make other energy efficiency improvements, such as insulating hot water pipes or fitting occupancy sensors.