The BEST 100W alternative around right now
The team over at littlegreenblog.com have done a pretty detailed review about what they thought of our new Quanta-18 100W flood replacement (Retail $99.99). They’ve even got a cool video that shows the actual light output in a real-world application! Get it here.
R + G + B = White!
The guys over at littlegreenblog.com have written a GREAT article on exactly what CRI and Color Temperature are and how to get the exact LEDs you need if you plan to build your own LED lights. It’s a little bit technical, but an easy read - and definitely some good knowledge to have even if you plan on just purchasing LED light bulbs (already-made) in the future.
We’re excited to announce that the Eternaleds HydraLux-4 is currently featured in the October 2009 issue of Popular Science as one of their “12 Must Have Products”! Exciting stuff!
We’re Popular Science readers ourselves and would like to thanks the staff at Popular Science for picking us. It just affirms to me that we’re on the right track bringing the most innovative LED products out to all of you. We’ll be featured in some other international magazines in the coming months so keep a look out.
Chocked full of tips on "living green"
The folks over at littlegreenblog.com are doing big things. Besides providing a ton of PRACTICAL tips on living green from greening your home and how to eat right, they’re planning to delve into building their own LED lights as well!
It’s always great to find people who share similar views on the toxicity of CFL’s and they hit the nail on the head with this post:
http://littlegreenblog.com/green-technology/energy-saving/leds-a-new-generation-of-lighting/
saying that CFL’s are just an interim solution to energy efficient lighting. It’s sad to hear that even in the UK, quality LED light bulbs still aren’t readily available. It’s people like Richard over at littlegreenblog.com who take an active role in spreading the word for LED lighting that we appreciate.
Richard comes from an Electrical Engineering background and plans to build his own LED lights using his home as a testbed and showing homeowners how they can build their own lights that put out usable quality light. From what Richard has said, he’s been experimenting with LED chips that put out 1000+ lumens!
We’re excited to see it, and you can guarantee we’ll keep you all posted when he comes out with his writeup.
I saw this on one of those do-it-yourself websites and I was thinking that it looks uncannily like our Eternaleds company logo. Coincidence? I think not.
Wheres the number for my lawyer?
In fact, if I were make a real life version of that, that’s exactly what I’d do. Except instead of soil, it would be powered by pure awesomeness. Actually you could call this a solar-powered lightbulb and you wouldn’t be too far off. Looks really clean to boot. If I ever get a thumb green enough, I’ll try this and post it up.
At least I know what I can do with the bulbs I’m not using anymore
[via Instructables]
Looks like a fiery upside-down tulip
So personally I love lights. And I love cool applications for lights such as the Iron Man costume, but for me part of the charm and wonderment stems from an almost magical sense that the light is coming from nowhere. This artsy ceiling light by Designer Christopher Moulder accomplishes this by making the entire shade part conductive. Pretty neat idea. It uses little 10W xenon bulbs, which combined, total almost 300 watts. Could probably be more efficient if LEDs were used but maybe the xenons are extremely bright. Either way, I’d love to see some more designs that use LEDs since they would not only look good, but taste good be good for the environment as well. I have a few projects in mind in the next few months utilizing the portable nature of LEDs, so we’ll see what I can come up with. Stay tuned.
[via Gizmodo]
Chinese manufacturer logo - surfing babies what?! - are you kidding me??
I just got an email in our inbox today. We get spammed about 5x a day from different manufacturers in China trying to get us to sell THEIR LED products. This one was particularly funny since it DID get my attention, but not in a good way, with their attached logo of a chinese baby “catching a wave”. (I can’t make this stuff up people)
The emails generally consist of a Dear sir/madam - followed by extremely broken English, with an attached pricelist asking us to consider them to be our manufacturer.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Dear Sir,
This is Vickey who come from Shenzhen *** ,LTD .I am kindly know you are in the market of LED lights.I would like to indroduce our comapny and products to you ,Hope to we could build business relatioship in 2009.”
I left the spelling errors in there on purpose. Do they REALLY expect us to buy their products, if the first sentence in their email is plagued with grammatical and spelling errors?
There are literally hundreds of new manufacturers in China trying to jump on the LED bandwagon, and make LED light bulbs. The question is what % of them are complete garbage?. We’ve taken the time to contact a number of manufacturers and tested their products thoroughly, before deciding on who to go with which is why we can offer a 2 year warranty and 30 day guarantee.
Once again, buyer beware - there’s a ton of new websites cropping up selling LED lights, at LOW prices. Their manufacturer can very well be the one who can’t even hire someone who speaks english, or uses surfing chinese babies in their logo…would you spend $40-$100 with them?
Anyone else seen some questionable websites? We’ll be happy to scope them out and give you the lowdown.
Announcing our new 3rd Generation LED Light Bulbs
We are extremely excited to announce our newest 3rd Generation LED Light bulbs! After weeks of testing we’ve found the brightest LED bulbs on the planet.
How do we know these are the brightest? We got a bunch of samples from manufacturers from all around the world and put them through weeks of testing. The following are the winners that are not only the brightest but have the best bang for the buck.
2nd generation LED bulbs use a big hunk of metal to cool them. This isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just that it makes them expensive - and price is one of the biggest factors in getting people to adopt LED lighting. Our new bulbs are different as follows:
Quanta-18 and Quanta-9 - Uses shatterproof plastic and air-cooling technology to make them feather light and cool to the touch as well as cost MUCH less than comparable 2nd generation LED light bulbs from other manufacturers.
Chromia-6 - No more all metal heatsink - just metal fins that provide much more surface area for cooling similar to those used in the newest computer processors (CPU’s)
Hydralux-4 - This is the first LED bulb in the world to use LIQUID COOLING technology, so half the bulb isn’t covered with the metal heatsink anymore unlike other LED globes, and you get light ALL AROUND, instead of just off the top half.
Check out Eternaleds.com for more detailed descriptions, and as always real-life side by side application photos so you can see how these bulbs compare to their incandescent equivalents!
What can you make for a buck?
Oh how I envy the hope and naivety of the young. Kids that have yet to experience the real world and think that they can save the world by turning garbage into art. In this case, it’s a required part of their curriculum, so it’s for a worthy cause, namely getting them a degree. This is a nice gallery of things that you can make for “a dollar” which you definitely can’t get an led light bulb for at the moment. It’s a good idea, but probably not something that I would spend money on. Though if it is in fact, one dollar, then I guess it would be worth it.
I would have enjoyed doing something like this back when I was in school, but my extent of recycling was turning a juice box into a bomb…It’s like the Zoolander concept brought to life….Mugatu’s Derelict.
Design for a Dollar Challenge [Via Fast Company]
California Edison's Lighting Technology Center
Just paid a visit to California Edison over here in Southern California. They’re one of the few utility companies who are taking an ACTIVE role, in LED technology and have an LED testing lab that has been testing LED MR16 bulbs from about 60 different LED manufacturers for about 6 months now. They’re just about finished and we’ll be getting a copy of the report and we’ll be sure to share the results here on the blog!
I was able to dig a little bit and find out some VERY interesting things they’ve learned so far from the past 6 months:
Overall, it seems that many fly-by-night manufacturers are cropping up (mostly in China), but only a handful are creating quality products - as the saying goes - you get what you pay for…
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