The first article of this 3-part blog post series was dealing with the near-term history of European directives and regulations related to energy efficiency and different energy-related products (ErP), not only energy-using products (EuP). Starting from Kioto 2005, this process has then proceeded to the situation, where new kinds of regulations have been taken into…
In this blog post series of 3 articles, our technical sales Tero Nurmi will tell you about the new EU regulations which will take part on 1st September 2021. In this blog series first Tero will tell you, what are these two different regulations: Single Lighting Regulation (SLR) and Energy Label Regulation (ELR). After that, Tero will…
To us, it’s very important how the components that we import have been packed. Our aim is to minimize the excess packaging waste, to avoid plastic and to design a packaging that is user-friendly, easy and effortless to handle. The same goes with our components as well. In this blog post, I will be explaining…
In my earlier post I went through the procedure of how to physically connect a single LED component into an AC network. The connection was made between COB LED and the LED driver. When connecting LED modules (LED diodes assembled on the PCB board) you do it pretty much the same way with slight differences.…
I have two blog posts for you focused on how you connect COB LED components into the electrical network. I mean, when you have either a single COB LED or an LED module based on SMD LED components assembled on a PCB board. Compared to traditional lighting, connecting LEDs to the electrical network is a whole…
Datasheets are essential part when you compare how different light sources work in your solution. Usually it can be time taking and exhausting to glance at datasheet and find values you are looking for. This gets even harder if you have multiple LEDs or different LED packages, which would mean that you have look at…
The selection of Constant Current driver is not always that simple, Esko wrote a post about it some time ago. You can read that here. Below you can find an infographic about the same topic. If you like it, feel free to share. Here is a link to our Lightbuilder.
In this blog post we concentrate on how to design a LED lighting package as a whole. And what different aspects you will have to take into account when selecting a light source and a driver. I decided to write this as a case example so that the post is more concrete. Most of the…
How to affect the lifetime of a LED module Lifetime of a LED module? What it means? Does it mean that LED module does not function anymore after the defined lifetime value? How to determine lifetime for the LED module? This post tries to explain what different lifetime estimation curves mean and how to interpret…
We discussed earlier about general characteristics of LED drivers and how to choose a suitable constant current LED driver for your application. Now, I’m going to tell you how to choose a right LED driver for your constant voltage application. As told in the previous posts, LED drivers are divided into two different categories: constant…