Designed to blend in, but also to stand out, this new QuikBeam from Astera aims to be the best of both worlds in the lighting ...

LED light bulbs got a top award at the International Design Excellence Awards 2010. The IDEA 2010 awards sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America took a shine to LED light bulbs this ...

A few years back, when I got my first LED-based lightbulb, it seemed natural to stick it into a wattmeter to get a sense of its efficiency. At under 15 Watts of power drawn, it clearly beat any ...

Power Integrations today published a new reference design (RD-268) for candelabra-style replacement bulbs. The design is based on LNK454DG, a member of the company’s recently launched LinkSwitch-PL ...

Like it or not, energy-saver light bulbs are about to become the next big thing. Starting next year, lighting manufacturers will begin a government-sanctioned phase out of incandescent bulbs that ...

There is a mercury-free alternative form of highly efficient light to the compact fluorescent light bulbs John Funk writes about. In the last few years, light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs have ...

Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) debuted in the 1980s and became popular a couple of decades later, when manufacturers improved their performance and fit. These bulbs are about 75% more ...

I get that we have to let incandescents go, but the chilly, shrill light of their replacements doesn’t compare. By Pamela Paul New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect ...

Excelsys Technologies, leaders in high efficiency power supply design, announces the introduction of the LDV series of ultra compact LED drivers. The new LDV series products can deliver up to 92W of ...