LED Lighting
With higher efficiencies than incandescent bulbs and without the hazardous chemicals found in Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL), LED lighting is gaining popularity as an environmentally friendly lighting solution.
As a result, LED lighting designers are challenged with meeting efficiency, cost effectiveness and reliability goals faster in advanced LED lighting designs. Seeking out the latest in innovative and affordable LED lighting solutions such as LEDs, LED engines, LED drivers, AC/DC, DC/DC, power management devices, wireless and wired interface control, embedded processors, heatsinks, connectors, development tools, etc etc….. can be a daunting task
Whatever your requirement, RS has solutions from discrete LEDs to Heatsinks and connectors from many manufacturers including OSRAM, Seoul and National Semiconductor, and more.
This site brings together all the design resources specific to LED Lighting into an easy navagable way.
Please feel free to add any apps notes to build up the resource with the latest information.
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kcc651
Thanks!
Pat Massingale
There is a lot of literature and magazines that cover the latest innovations in LED technology and products. I have tried to compile a list here of the most useful sources from the industry.
LED Magazines and Events
LEDS Magazine:
Solid State Lighting design:
Strategies in LGHT (EUROPE) (LED & Lighting Events in Japan , China , USA and Europe)
LED professional Review (LpR)
LEDs Review.com
EDN: LED Technology specific
Electronics weekly: have good product highlights
User groups on Linked in.:
LED's for Lighting Group Members [group-digests@linkedin.com]
LED Professionals Group Members [group-digests@linkedin.com]
Leduniversity
Manufacturer LED sites
National Semiconductor:
Microchip:
Texas Instruments:
Pat Massingale
I have updated the blog on the discussion about the brightest LED.
Pat Massingale
Directives, standards, cost comparisons, LED engines, high brightness LEDs, LED drivers, Energy consumption, Light efficacy...........
All questions that confront an engineer considering a project for a Solid State lighting Application. Keep an eye out for answers to the latest products, lighting queries, answers and recommendations from the blogs, knowledge and question areas.