Practical LED bulbs are now available from a number of sources. One manufacturer, Cree, Inc., reached a milestone in LED lighting with the development of a 75-watt replacement bulb more than 100 years ...

The TPS92075 is designed for phase-dimmable, offline AC/DC LED lamp and downlight applications. Offered in a very small 6-pin TSOT package, it achieves power factor correction above 0.9 while ...

A new electronic drive and thermal management reference design that simplifies development of high-brightness light-emitting diode (LED) bulb fixtures that replace incandescent or compact fluorescent ...

Designers of early indoor LED light bulbs faced numerous technical hurdles, including AC-to-DC conversion, thermal heat-sinking, constraints imposed by current bulb sizes, electrical transients, and ...

The marketplace for more-or-less normal-looking LED light bulbs became just a little more crowded yesterday, when Philips announced the dimmable 75-watt equivalent version of its SlimStyle bulb. With ...

Don’t recognize the difference between ENERGY STAR light bulbs and imposter LEDs? You might get burned. Efficiency Vermont discounts ENERGY STAR-rated LED bulbs, ensuring that Vermont consumers will ...

The CEO of Austin, Texas-based Illumitex says his company's light emitting diodes aren't just energy-efficient -- they're optically efficient, too, thanks to a company focus on using product design to ...

Light bulbs aren’t (usually) the most important part of a room’s decor. Interior designers are experts at masking the light source, and instead focusing the beam on a painting or sofa. That’s fine if ...

While LED light bulbs help save energy and are most certainly a greener choice than incandescents, the packaging of these more eco-friendly light bulbs leaves much to be desired. Using Philips LED ...

[electronupdate] has done a lot of LED light bulb teardowns over the years, witnessing a drive towards ever-cheaper and ever-simpler implementations, and suspects that LED light bulb design has ...

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