Q: What is the minimum value of CRI you will accept in your lighting design and why? What value of CCT are you likely to select for a kitchen and why? A: Your questions make me feel like a contestant ...

When most people hear the phrase “adequate lighting” in an industrial setting, they immediately think about brightness and the level of visibility. Certainly, that’s important for employee safety.

In the commercial and industrial lighting world, luminaires with Amber LEDs fulfill a niche market need for both indoor and outdoor applications. In industrial facilities, luminaires with Amber LEDs ...

To create different lighting conditions, we used a special lighting booth consisting of LEDs with 24 different peak wavelengths. Three levels of correlated color temperature (CCT) *1 were employed: ...

Cree is claiming a first, with a single LED delivering nearly 1,600 lm at 134 lm/W with “similar colour quality as an incandescent light bulb”. It is a lab demonstration. “Cree is focused on improving ...

The LED industry is ever moving towards more lumens/watt, lumens/$, lumens/area, better brightness, and improved color rendering index (CRI), sometimes called color rendition index. CRI is a ...

As the world transitions away from ordinary incandescent lighting and toward more energy-efficient light sources, the topic of light-source color temperature has suddenly become more important.

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...