LED Blog: LED Lighting And All Things Green

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!