Lighting & Illumination

June 2011

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Available in serial or parallel wiring options, the new Molex array holder simplifies LED installation. Array holder is shown with and without optional Ingress Protection

LED Lighting Solutions

Dan McGowan, Engineering Manager, Molex Incorporated

Here follows an in-depth look into just how synergistic electronics, optical and lighting industries are yielding new and award-winning technologies to revolutionize the world of LED luminaires. LEDs

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Date:

06/13/2011

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Figure 1: N and P type doping of an LED

Driving LEDs

Shane Callanan, Applications Engineering Manager, Excelsys Technologies, Cork, Ireland

LEDs are fast replacing Fluorescent light bulbs and incandescent light bulbs in many lighting applications. In the past these sources could be driven directly from the mains voltage, but this is

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Date:

06/13/2011

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Table 1: Comparison of LEDs, CFL & Incandescent Light Sources

Offline LED Applications

Jeff Gruetter, Sr. Product Marketing Engineer, Power Products, Linear Technology

Most of the new LED lighting fixture applications will be required to run from existing AC offline power sources, generally 90VAC to 265VAC depending on the end application's geography. The ability

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Date:

06/11/2011

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Figure 1: LED street lights

LED Street Lighting

Peter B. Green, LED Group, International Rectifier

High brightness LED street lights are now being installed in pilot projects at many sites. In most cases these are replacing high intensity discharge (HID) and high pressure sodium (HPS) street

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Date:

06/08/2011

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Figure 1: Single Stage Equalizer for 300 meters of Cat 5 cable

Video Transmission Solution

Dave Ritter, Senior Designer and Tamara Schmitz, Ph.D., Senior Principal Applications Engineer, Intersil Corporation

Transmission cables have improved, but the challenge is always the same: get more messages down longer cables faster. It may sound simple, but the longer the cable, the greater the losses. These

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Date:

06/01/2011