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Palm Beach State College A Brighter Place Thanks To AG National

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida-July 18, 2017-The Palm Beach Gardens campus of Palm Beach State College has gotten brighter with the installation of LED lighting on its well-travelled campus walkway. Lighting levels were unsatisfactory due to failing high-intensity discharge (HID) fixtures. “Palm Beach State College places strong importance on providing a dependable, secure campus during all hours of operation, and especially at nighttime,” says Gavin Junk, project manager for AG National, who supervised the project “When the facilities director called, we put together a plan to resolve the issue.”

Junk, working with Chief Lighting Application Engineer Jason Ernstam of LED Corporations, faced some interesting hurdles. “They have forty-eight 400W HID fixtures evenly placed throughout the walkway. The ballasts were breaking with greater frequency, and there were dark spaces,” says Ernstam. “The light levels weren’t great. I am sure it was a concern for students traveling that path at night.” [read more]

LED Parking Lot Lights: 5 Reasons LED Retrofits Rule

There are many benefits to using LED retrofits over standard HID bulbs. A typical return on investment (ROI) report shows that energy consumption is reduced by a whopping 75%. When all the facts and options are considered and presented, upgrading to area lighting becomes a true no-brainer. Then your choice comes down to whether you should replace your high-intensity discharge (HID) fixtures, or would retrofit street lights be the better option? [read more]

Light Emitting Diodes or LEDs are unique in many ways compared to traditional lighting technologies such as incandescent, fluorescent, or High-Intensity Discharge (HID). One example is binning which is a process where the LEDs are tested and sorted. Understanding how LED specifications differ from traditional technologies will help prevent comparing “apples to oranges”. To optimize LED and luminaire performance and longevity, it is imperative that LEDs be used according to their binning.

LEDs are manufactured millions at a time using high-speed processes. LED Corporations has its own particular “recipe”, but there are some commonalities among other manufacturers. It all starts with the epitaxial or “epi” wafer which is the baseline material that is grown. More layers are then grown on the epi wafer, the wafer is diced into chips, and these chips are packaged with electrical leads, mechanical supports, lenses, and in the case of white LEDs phosphors are added for the different CCTs or Correlated Color Temperatures (e.g. 4100K, 3000K, etc.).

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The Fashion Center New York is getting a LED Street Lighting Makeover by LED Corporations, Inc.

led street lights LED Corporations, Inc. is pleased to announce that over 370 of the company’s high efficiency, Phillips Luxeon® LED-based street lighting are being installed in the Garment District, Manhattan borough of New York City, also known as the Fashion District for fashion manufacturing in the United States, and even the world. The whole Garment Center that lies between Fifth Avenue and Ninth Avenue, from 34th to 42nd Street will soon take advantage of the heighten brightness emitted by 300 watts of Philips Luxeon® l e d lights-based street lights which are “Made in USA” and distributed by LED Corporations, Inc.
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