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Coloured LED Review 2
6W IKEA ‘Dioder’ RGB Lighting Strips IKEA Dioder (photo: IKEA) Info: 6W, 90 lumen, 20 000 hour life rate. Strips join together into either one long strip or at angles, e.g. around a small mirror....
View ArticleNew Philips-Apple LED Innovation
This new Philips RGB bulb can be set to almost any colour, just like other RGB lamps. But instead of a separate remote control, this one is controlled by an iPhone or iPad app, wich makes it a lot more...
View ArticleCFL Mercury – Watch Your Feet!
I just stumbled on this link with the story of a man who dropped a too hot CFL globe lamp and could not avoid stepping on the mercury-contaminated glass as he stepped off the chair. This “smaller than...
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Darkness darkness
Happy New Year, everyone! Hope your holidays have been good, with lots of love and beautiful lighting. This post I’d like to dedicate to another, often forgotten, quality when discussing light:...
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Swedish Consumer Tests Autumn 2012
There were two major Swedish tests made during fall 2012. Råd & Rön and Testfakta. The former is issued by Sweden’s leading consumer organisation, Sveriges Konsumenter, and the latter is a...
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CFL Fire Risk?
Happened to stumble upon this entertainingly written blog article, about a very serious issue: Build a home, work on it day and night, stick a Walmart CFL in it and burn it down “We are in the...
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GravityLight!
Gravity light can replace kerosene lamps Here is a copy of the of the original article by the inventors. Please visit the website for video presentation and more information. GravityLight: lighting for...
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UN Mercury Treaty Phases Out CFLs!
Now CFLs are included on the list of items to be phased out by 2020 due to mercury content! Wow! Isn’t that rather remarkable for a lamp which all the world has heralded as greener than green? What...
View ArticleU.S. Incandescent Regulation Found Invalid
Local researcher finds contradiction in incandescent light bulb laws In 2007, congress passed the bi-partisan Energy Independence and Security Act (or EISA 2007) which included intentions to phase out...
View ArticleEU Halogen Ban Review
As described in detail by Freedom Light Bulb, the planned halogen ban 2016 is up for review on Monday 25th. The recommended regulatory changes include: 1. changing the entry into force of the stage 6...
View ArticleCanadian Light Bulb Ban
To us Europeans, Canada has always seemed like the older and wiser sister to the United States. More reflecting and less quick to jump on the band wagon of every new idea adopted by the U.S. to please...
View ArticleU.S. Light Bulb Ban – Bad Idea!
Tomorrow the United States’ incandescent phase-out scheme bans incandescent halogen energy savers brighter than 43W (roughly equivalent to a 55W standard incandescent bulb). The regulation has been...
View ArticleBlue Diode Inventors Win Nobel Prize
Press release from the Nobel committee today: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya...
View ArticleFlickering LED
A friend’s apartment building has recently been refurbished with warm white LED downlights in the entrance hall and corridors. Being of higher quality than the usual mediocre LED bulbs sold in shops,...
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EU Lamp Regulation Update
(Updated with amended infographics) 2015 was a sad year for incandescent light lovers in Europe. The EU Commission, rather than celebrating its victories in having forced EU citizens to replace so many...
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LED Update
Over the last couple of years there has been a very rapid development of LEDs. Some problems still remain, others have been mitigated in innovative ways. Summary from some of the latest studies,...
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LED Stage Lighting
A rock concert yesterday made me ponder on some of the differences between the old and the new ways of lighting a stage. For some inexplicable reason, modern stage lighting seems not so much focused on...
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