THE LED REVOLUTION

Is Your Showroom
Ready ?

Solid State Lighting is

the most disruptive
technology to hit the
lighting industry in
60years.....

LED technology will create the same disruptive

revolution in the Lighting Industry as Digital Recording
MP3 did in the Music Industry .
1. LED technology will enable new possibilities for Lighting design in existing
applications and open up new applications where the sky will be the limit.
2. It will fundamentally change todays Lighting Industry which consists of a few global
lamp manufacturers and thousands of local and regional fixture manufacturers .

3. The market will change from a lamp replacement business into a system replacement business ,
resulting in a declining ( conventional) lamp business and a booming LED- module and systems
business. Totally new players will enter the business challenging the existing players of which a
few have positioned themselves well to emerge as successful future players .

Customer says
I want to use LEDs

What is their goal?

Saving energy?
Saving Money?
Better Lighting?
Being Green?

The history of LEDS

 1929 - Soviet patent granted for a light

relay
1961 - Modern LED invented at
Texas Instruments
1962 - Red LED invented
- First mass produced indicator lights
1970s

- Used extensively in indicator lights

and numerical displays
- Increased light output10 X
- First colored LED produced

 1980s - Traffic signals

1990s - Exit signs and automotive lamps
late 1990s - First blue LED with vastly
increased light output
- RGB becomes practical
- mainly used theatrically
2000 - High brightness white produced
using RGB method and phosphor coating
method
2008
- Introduction of wide array of
LED lighting products

What is an LED?
Light Emitting
Diode
Colour

White

Anatomy of an LED

How do LEDs Work?

Like a normal diode, the
LED consists of a chip
of semiconducting
material impregnated, or
doped with impurities to
create a p-n junction.

LED Basic Components

LED chips are made of silicone
(like computer chips) then
mounted in a package that has
some electrical leads and
sometimes a heat sink

LEDs Are Small

Which can make
for small fixtures

Currently Most LEDs Are Directional

The LED chip is located
in a little reflective cup
that sends the light in a
direction.

Which makes them good

for applications requiring a
spot light.

Currently Most LEDs Are Directional

But not so good for applications better
suited to omni directional lamps

LED Light Distribution

Some LEDs have
diffusion lenses to
spread out the
light, or don't
have the
reflective cap.

Myth #1
LEDs Create No Heat

Light Output vs. Junction Temperature

Heat Management
Getting away
from the junction
is critical to LED
performance

The package is
then attached to a
heat sink that then
becomes a part of
either a lamp or a
luminaire.

*Life

*Lumen Output

LED fixtures need to dissipate heat differently than

incandescent fixtures.

Myth #2
LEDs last 100,000 hours
(or forever depending on who you ask!)

Myth #2
LEDs last 100,000 hours
(or forever depending on who you ask!)

Myth #3
LEDs are White Light Sources

Efficiency: Lumens, Watts, & Efficacy

Lumens: total light

Watts: total power
Efficacy: how much light for the power
(lumens per watt, LPW)
(similar to miles per gallon)
_______
Watts

Quantity = Footcandles

Foot Candles: Light per square foot

on a surface
Footcandles are what we measure
with a light meter
Different tasks require different
levels of Footcandles

Color Rendering...
Color Rendering Index ( CRI )
How Natural And Normal
Do People And
Things Appear Under
Artificial Light?
CRI Scale goes from: 0 - 100,
with 100 being the best CRI

Color Rendering Index ( CRI )

The Perfect Light Source...
The SUN

POORER

Perfect
Color
Rendering

BETTER

100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

INCANDESCENT / HALOGEN (100)

DAYLIGHT MH ( 90 )
CMH (85+)
FLUORESCENT ( 60+ to 92 )
STD. METAL HALIDE ( 65-70 )
DELUXE LUCALOX ( 65 )
COATED MERCURY ( 50 )

LUCALOX, HPS ( 22 )
CLEAR MERCURY ( 15 )
LPS ( 0 )

Color Temperature
The Higher The Color
temperature,
The cooler The Color
2200o

Lucalox

4100o

2700o
Incandescen

Fluorescent

Common Colour Temperatures

Approx Temp.
8500K
6500K
6000K
4500K
4000K
3000K
2500K
2000K

Light Source

Blue Sky
Daylight Fluorescent Lamp
Clear Mercury Lamp
Clear Metal Halide Lamp
Cool White Fluorescent Lamp
Halogen Lamp, WW Fluorescent
40 Watt Incandescent Lamp
Candle, HP Sodium Lamp

White LEDs
White light LEDs are
generally made by
taking a blue LED
and doping it with
yellow phosphors.

LEDs & Colour Temperature

Many so called
White LEDs
are a pale blue
colour, 50006500K.

5000K

LEDs & Colour Temperature

Sometimes LEDs are marketed in a
warm colour temperature, very often
this is fairly cool. 3500-4000K
Its just warmer the cool

4000K

5000K

LEDs & Colour Temperature

If what you are
expecting is an
incandescent
replacement (27003000K) then you may
be disappointed .

Currently few
LEDs are
consistently
available in that
warm a colour
temperature.

3000K

4000K

5000K

Illumination Levels

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Online training e.luminance

The advantages of
LEDS

 Size
Efficiency
Life expectancy
Dimmable
Low temperatures
Toxin free

The challenges of LEDS

 Cost
Colour
Directional distribution
Performance
Life expectancy of components
Colour shift
Interface with controls
Replacement parts

The best applications of

LEDS