USA - Lumileds Lighting introduced new colour-matched white Luxeon Lamps that enable lighting manufacturers to quickly build LED-based luminaires with consistent white light. Advanced binning algorithms applied during manufacturing ensure colour uniformity within each fixture as well as from luminaire to luminaire.

"The lighting community looks for white-point consistency whether viewing the light source directly or the effect that's being created," said Keith Scott, market development manager. "Uniform white light is essential in luminaires, but achieving a consistent colour temperature with LEDs has been a major challenge because of the wide colour variations inherent in the LED manufacturing process, "Our Luxeon Lamps offer the first practical solution to the problem by supplying pre-matched, pre-mounted LEDs that not only provide the desired colour consistency but also speed time to market for the finished product."

Benefits include: Uniform white LED light within and among luminaires, one-year payback with lower lifetime costs and fewer LEDs to achieve the desired light output. Each lamp consists of multiple white Luxeon delivering correlated colour temperatures of 3200K (warm white), 4100K (commercial white) or 5500K (cool white). The matched Luxeon are mounted in multiple configurations offering light output levels of 500-1200 lumens and CRI similar to or better than conventional solutions. Luxeon's industry leading lumen maintenance of 70% at 50,000 hours significantly reduces lifecycle costs.

Each lamp can be integrated with drivers, heat sink and optics to form complete lighting systems that deliver 1-2 year payback when replacing incandescent and halogen luminaires. Luxeon Lamps are suitable for a wide range of luminaires including track, recessed, display, cove, outdoor and other retail and exterior applications.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)


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