For several years manufacturers have been introducing LED bulbs onto the market with the eventual goal of replacing incandescent and CFL lamps. The design of these lamps has evolved from very simple ...

They’re consistently popular with the readers, which is admittedly part of my (and EDN’s) motivation to continue doing them. But I personally also find them fascinating; inevitably I come across at ...

Living in a home filled with dimmer switches can make the lighting aisle seem more intimidating than it ought to be. Sure, plenty of today’s LEDs are designed with dimmability in mind, but that ...

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...

Fairchild announced the FL7734 Phase-Cut Dimmable Single- Stage LED Driver, a highly integrated LED controller solution for low-cost, and highly reliable LED lighting solutions from 5 W to 30 W. The ...

Lighting dimmers are a pretty simple concept: they are used to increase or decrease voltage to a dimmable lighting fixture in order to adjust its intensity. Typically used with incandescent halogen or ...

At LDI2005, the judges awarded Strand Lighting the Lighting/Entertainment Product of the Year for its C21 Dimmer Rack. The system allows users to freely mix dimmers of any type — both sine wave and ...

Designed to provide professional integrators and their homeowner clients lots of stylish dimming choices, Crestron has announced its Cameo Universal Wireless Dimmers. The series of lighting control ...

Track lighting is back. OK, it never really went away. But it’s going through another in the series of rebirths it has enjoyed since Lightolier first introduced the concept in 1959. “It was exactly ...