Also check out this article from a few days ago about getting them over 1000 lumens.
<http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=29664> - Tom Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Interesting. Australia is banning incandescent light bulbs, which IMO makes a *whole* lot more sense than fussing over the power requirements of OTA STBs, and just in time these other alternatives appear to the already available fluoresent light bulb replacements. A 60 watt incandescent bulb emits about 870 lumens. So the LED replacement would draw about 12 to 14 watts, which makes it almost identical to the efficiency of those fluorescent lamp lightbulb replacements. But I would expect the LED to last many more years than even the longlasting fluorescents. Also, if white light is made by combining red, blue, and green LEDs, you should be able to adjust the color temperature to whatever you prefer. And, LEDs would not create the hazardous waste problem of fluorescents. Bert ------------------------------------------------------- White LEDs warm up for indoor lighting David Roman (03/21/2007 12:01 AM EDT) URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100295 MANHASSET, N.Y. - Cree Inc. has increased the brightness and efficiency of its XLamp XR-E and XLamp XR-C white light-emitting diodes by more than 20 percent, enough to make them suitable for indoor "warm white" lighting applications. "This is a performance breakthrough in the warm LED area," said Paul Thieken, director of marketing for solid-state lighting at Cree (Durham, N.C.). "We've overcome some of the challenges to getting white LEDs into general illumination applications. One of them is the ability to drive into the 700 mA range. This allows us to produce about 142 lumens of brightness. Another is color point stability, which is critical for lighting designers." The improvements yield "a new class of warm LED that will enable a number of new applications right away," Thieken claimed. Production volumes of the brighter white XR-E and XR-C LEDs are available immediately. Cree did not provide pricing information. The new LEDs deliver 142 lumens at a correlated-color-temperature (CCT) of 4,000 K and 124 lumens at a CCT of 3,000 K when driven at 700 mA. They deliver 73 or 63 lumens per watt at a CCT of 3,000 K when driven at 350 mA. "The competition and our previous products were producing 50 lumens and below," Thieken said. The brighter LEDs can be applied to general illumination downlighting and undercabinet lighting applications that previously relied on incandescent bulbs, he said. One lighting supplier, LED Lighting Fixtures Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.), plans to use Cree's XR-E LEDs in a commercial and residential six-inch downlight that produces approximately 650 lumens or 60 lumens per watt. The company said it will ship the fixture in two color temperatures, 2,700 K and 3,500 K, for warm and cool white applications, in the second quarter. "We believe LED lighting for the mainstream has finally been enabled," Neal Hunter, CEO of LLF Lighting Fixtures, said in a statement. "This unprecedented technology will not only change the industry, but also reshape the way the average consumer views lighting." Cree has steadily improved its white LEDs to broaden their application areas. It announced production availability of white XLamp 7090 LEDs in October 2006 that achieved 160 lumens at 700 mA, sufficient for applications such as outdoor street lighting and low bay lighting. Warmer lighting is preferred for indoor applications. Color point stability has traditionally proved difficult in producing warm white LEDs, but Cree said its newly available white LEDs have minimal CCT shift. "There is a measureable shift in color, but the human eye cannot detect it," said Paul Scheidt, Cree's product marketing manager for solid-state lighting. In addition to greater brightness and efficiency, the parts are also more efficient in terms of lumens per dollar-a ratio that is closely watched by industry, Thieken said. Cree did not provide a lumens per dollar ratio for the new LEDs. A competitor, Philips Lumileds Lighting Co., lists the following Luxeon warm white LEDs on its Web site: the LXHL-BW03 emitter with a unit price of $2.99 and a lumens per dollar ratio of 6.7; the LXHL-MWGC Star Hex priced at $3.59 and with a lumens/dollar ratio of 5.6; and the LXHL-NWGB Star O priced at $4.59 and with a lumens/dollar ratio of 4.4. All unit prices are for complete reel quantities. Cree said it has also changed the way it sorts its new LEDs, a process know in the semiconductor industry as "binning," Thieken said. "How we characterize and sell the products will be based on some ANSI standards. We produce the semiconductors and we bin in two dimensions: one is color point, the other is how much light they put out. That's a change to make it more applicable to lighting designers," he said. Cree reported revenue of $88.8 million and net income of $16.5 million for its most recent fiscal quarter ended Dec. 24, 2006, down from $105.6 million in revenue and $17.7 million in net income in the year-ago quarter. The company earlier this month agreed to acquire Cotco Luminant Device Ltd., a Hong Kong-based supplier of high brightness LEDs, for $200 million in cash and stock. Last year the company paid $46 million to acquire Intrinsic Semiconductor Corp. (Dulles, Va.), a developer of silicon carbide substrates. That purchase will accelerate Cree's commercialization of 150- and 200-mm substrates, the company said. All material on this site Copyright 2007 CMP Media LLC. 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