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LEDs are about four times more efficient than incandescent lights, last an estimated 15 years, and contain no harmful mercury as do compact fluorescent lights bulbs.

Combine blue, red, green, and yellow laser light and you will get white light, but perhaps a white light you wouldn’t want illuminating your living room

Banner industrial LED indicator

Jeff Leuwerke from Banner Engineering looks at the styles and advantages of LED indicator lights in the work place. 2:35

Open LED protectors keep serial-wired lighting arrays lit if one LED fails open-circuit.

PaperDisplays, printed-electronic displays from Swedish-based research institute Acreo, (acreo.se), are to be manufactured in volume by Soligie in Savage, Minn.

The Lumifa Series of LED light strips last at least 40,000 hr and only use a third the energy of fluorescent lights, says Idec Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Carrier Corp. recently redesigned their thermostat with the help Global Lighting Technologies, who redesigned the backlighting.

The multichip LED strips have a voltage rating of 24 Vdc.  Some are rated IP67 to handle wash downs, others provide protection from dust, as well as from limited water spray.

Carrier Corp. recently redesigned their thermostat.

LEDs are about four times more efficient than incandescent lights, last an estimated 15 years, and contain no harmful mercury as do compact fluorescent lights bulbs.

The Society for Information Display (SID), San Jose, a global organization for electronic-display technology, announced the winners of its 13th annual Display of the Year contest during the recent SID International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition — dubbed Display Week 2008.

The hype touting LEDs as having a useful life of 100,000 hr is incorrect. So say engineers at Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. in San Jose, Calif.

Vectra S liquidcrystal polymers (LCPs) have become the material of choice for withstanding temperatures above 260°C in lead-free soldering of LED packages.

As white LEDs become more pervasive, there are ever-more options for driving them.

Proper lighting is the key to useful machine vision.