fluorescent lamp in lcd panel for lighting brands

LCD Lighting produces specialty fluorescent lamps for point-of-purchase (POP) displays. We offer a wide variety of colors and color correction so that sign and POP display makers can stay true to the brand.

We design our T5, T8 and T12 lamps with display designers and other professional servicemen in mind, creating features that are optimized for indoor and outdoor signage, advertising displays, exhibits, and point-of-purchase (POP) displays, retail, and mood lighting.

We designed our Long Life lamps for both hot and cold (low-temperature) operating environments. The cold weather Long Life lamp encapsulates the T8 lamp in a T12 sleeve providing a thermal insulation for the fluorescent tube to reach full brightness. For those new or retrofit applications where a more even distribution of light in the sign cabinet is required, Long Life T8’s are available with a single or diffused coating inside the T12 sleeve. The diffused sleeve provides the same benefits as the thermal lamp while softening the light to prevent hot spots on the sign or display face. The T5 and T8 hot environment lamps use a long stem mount to create stable “cold spot” for optimum output and performance.

Long Life T12 fluorescent tubes offer direct retrofitting with electronic and magnetic ballasts. They can directly replace existing T12 HO lamps with up to 25 percent greater efficiency. Whether building, designing, or retrofitting an existing sign or display, the Long Life T12 is easy to incorporate into your advertising or display program. We have designed these lamps to operate on magnetic and electronic sign ballasts for easy changeover.

Readily available colors include: cool white, warm white, daylight, blue, green, red, and tri-band. We also provide ultraviolet and infrared phosphors. Colors can be blended to produce the precise desired color requirements in a wide range within the visible spectrum. Please visit our High CRI page for more information.

LCD Lighting can work with OEMs to make connections for their specific applications. Please visit or Lamp Sub-Assembly page for more information about our value-added solutions.

Standard phosphors can be blended for customization, matching your exact color requirements in a wide range within the visible spectrum. Standard colors include cool white, warm white, daylight, blue, green, red, ultraviolet, infrared, and tri-band.

Are you looking for outdoor sign fluorescent lamps that reduce energy costs and work in a variety of environments? Our long life sign lamps from Voltarc – an LCD Lighting affiliate company – offer everything you need, including thermal and thermal diffused lamps for cold operating environment.Click here to learn more.

At LCD Lighting, we manufacture custom fluorescent lamps using the most advanced technology. We cater to the OEM, meeting their individual application needs with standard straight replacement lamps and specially-designed bent lamps.

Our fluorescent lamps are used around the world in commercial, private and military aircrafts, industrial and commercial printing application, as well as in laptops, ATM’s, medical monitors and phototherapy applications, aquarium and reptile lighting, kiosk/Point-of-purchase (POP) displays, and a myriad of stage and screen lighting.

Plazmo is the largest supplier of CCFL backlights (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) in North America. We currently have more 1 million CCFL backlights in stock and ready to ship.

The CCFL products we carry consist of hundreds of different sizes of raw Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFLs) available in diameters from 1.8mm - 6.0mm, and lengths from 40mm all the way up to 1,400mm. We also have more than 200,000 complete LCD backlight assemblies in stock in addition to the millions of CCFL backlights Plazmo has in stock.

We specialize in precision color-matching technology and use the latest in testing equipment that allows us to both analyze and produce any color CCFL backlight you want. This includes the full spectrum of white lamps commonly used in various LCD screens as well as specialty color, UV, and infrared lamps that are used in a wide range of applications.

In addition to our standard CCFL backlight offerings, we have complete engineering and manufacturing capabilities for custom designs.  We can make any type of CCFL backlight you might need. If you have an old, obsolete LCD or even a new, yet uncommon, LCD requiring a specific or custom-made backlight, we can help. We make new, specialty backlight lamps for any and all LCD applications, including straight and shaped lamps. Some of the CCFL backlight shapes Plazmo offers are: C, U, L, and M shape lamps. In short, if you don"t find the perfect solution for your LCD backlighting needs on our website,CCFLWarehouse.comorPlazmo.com, just give us a call or send us an email with your specific needs.

To go with the vast array of CCFL backlights we have in stock, we also offer the most common CCFLwire harnessesused in LCD backlighting. We stock UL-rated wire harnesses which include connector types from brands like JST, JAE, Molex, Honda, and many more. We also stock all of the components you would need to make your own, custom harnesses. Those components include High Voltage CCFL lamp wire, terminals, connectors and shrink tube, to name a few. If you need a CCFL wire harness that isn’t found atPlazmo.com, give our experts a call or send us an email. We can custom design and make practically any CCFL wire harnesses you might need. Whether you are a small LCD repair facility or a large OEM, we are CCFL backlight and LED backlight experts, and we are here to help.

Silicone end caps for CCFL backlights are a necessary component in making LCD backlight repairs. That’s why Plazmo carries hundreds of different models of silicone end caps. These include a variety of single, dual and triple LCD backlight lamp assembly varieties. However, not all of the end cap possibilities out there are available directly from our website, but we are able to help you find one that would be compatible with your needs. Send our experts an email or give us a call and we will help you find the right end cap, or, in the rare occurrence that we can not find the right end cap, we can custom manufacture the ones you need. For more information on custom CCFL silicone end caps, our contact information is below; we are here to help.

CCFLs have been used for years as a backlight source. These backlights usually have a hollow glass cylinder - 2 to 10 mm in diameter, that’s internally coated with a phosphorescent material and filled with a noble gas (most commonly argon). The tube is then sealed at both ends with an iron-nickel electrode located at each end of the tube.

CCFLs operate on high-voltage alternating current (AC). When the high voltage is applied the resulting arc ionizes the internal noble gas which produces ultraviolet energy. The ultraviolet energy excites the phosphorescent lining which then produces light in the visible range (400 to 700 nm). The phosphorus make-up determines the color temperature of the visible light output. Typically, the resulting temperature color is in the 2800 - 3200K range, which looks like a warm to standard white light.

Most systems that have LCD panels run on direct current (DC), the DC has to be converted to AC in order power the lamp. An inverter is typically used to create the high-voltage AC. In addition, CCFL backlights require constant current, not constant voltage. Also, the strike voltage or the voltage required to start the light of the CCFL is different than the sustaining voltage. The inverter that’s designed to power an LCD CCFL will typically run at about 50 kHz. The inverter has to be matched to the specifications of the CCFL, particularly the current, strike voltage, and operating voltage.

When power is applied to the inverter, it starts by ramping up the output voltage until the CCFL turns on (an arc strikes). The strike voltage may be several hundred volts higher than the sustaining voltage, just to get the CCFL to light up. After the tube strikes which is identified by current flowing, the inverter then drops the voltage until the rated current is flowing which is typically around 5 to 7 mA. For example, a CCFL may have a strike voltage of approximately 1200 V, an operating voltage of approximately 800 V, and an operating current of 6 mA. Using this example, the power draw would then be 4.8 watts. The inverter switch has built-in protection so that if the tube does not strike after it’s gotten a few hundred volts more than the normal strike voltage, the tube is considered dead.

The life expectancy of CCFLs used as backlights is now around 50,000 - 60,000 hours. CCFLs rarely exhibit catastrophic failure unlike incandescent bulbs. Rather, the tube slowly dims over time due to phosphor erosion. The useful life for all backlights is defined by when the light output from the tube reaches half of its initial brightness. Increasing the current will decrease the life expectancy, but will increase the brightness. The color temperature of the tube doesn’t usually change as the bulb gets older.

In many LCD panels, the CCFLs may be replaced when they reach the end of their useful life. CCFLs typically have low heat generation, about 6 - 8 watts per tube. The heat is spread over the surface area of the tube easing heat dissipation. Most LCDs in the embedded market use 4 tubes or less. However, when many CCFLs, more than 4, are used together in an enclosed panel, overall heat dissipation should be taken into account. The optimum ambient temperature range for the highest efficiency and brightness is 77 to 104°F (25 to 40°C). Depending on the design of the tube, it may operate at temperatures from -22 to +185°F (-30 to +85°C); however, performance may be affected at either end of the spectrum, especially the lower end. At low temperatures the brightness decreases and the strike voltage increases. The typical efficiency of CCFLs is in the range of 70 to 90 lumens-per-watt, although with the competition of LED backlights, new advances are being made to boost efficiency.

Below are all the available CCFL lamp sizes for LCD televisions; these sizes will be the correct replacement for most LCD televisions with screen size between 32" and 52".

One way to determine the correct CCFL for your television is to measure one of the CCFLs in your unit. Take a diameter and length measurement. Length measurement should include the entire glass length from glass-end to glass-end. (You can view further helps in measuring your CCFL in our tutorials section). The CCFLs on this page are listed by size (diameter x length).

*ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS* These lamp can only be shipped via USPS International Priority service. All orders outside of the United States for CCFL lamps for LCD televisions must select this shipping service upon checkout (international customers who do not choose the USPS International Priority service are advised that shipments can take up to 4-5 weeks to arrive and delivery is not guaranteed.)

Laptops, computer screens, tablets, notebooks. Is your display not lighting up? Maybe it is getting dim or even starting to have a reddish or pinkish hue, maybe it has completely gone dark. The good news: you need a new CCFL backlight lamp and we have them. We stock LCD backlight bulbs for most LCDs. The backlight repair is actually easier than you think, and once you replace the CCFL lamp in your LCD you have essentially restored your LCD display to new condition, as bright and vibrant as it was the first day you got it. And best of all, one less old LCD panel in a landfill somewhere! Call us today, we are here to help (402) 330-2222.

CCFL warehouse is the leading supplier and vendor direct to the largest department stores, grocery stores, and restaurant chains in the country. These companies purchase their CCFL lamps directly from us for use in their own POS repair facilities. We have replacement CCFL lamps in stock for all touch screen displays commonly used in POS cash registers and we stock them in large quantities.

Nearly every piece of Industrial equipment now made has an LCD control panel of some sort. Expensive equipment like CNC machines, heavy machinery, industrial control panels, medial and military displays, sewing machines, food processing equipment, you name it! What they also have in common is they are all heavily used and the LCD displays eventually fail. The equipment manufacturers charge exorbitant amounts for new displays, but the fact is all that is needed is new CCFL backlights. Install a new CCFL lamp assembly and your critical piece of equipment is back on line.

ATMs, amusement displays such as casino gaming, video games, juke boxes, and kiosks- these LCD displays are notorious for failure due to the 24 hour high demand usage. Again, a new CCFL lamp, and they are back up and running like new. CCFL Warehouse supplies CCFL backlights to many of the largest LCD display repair companies in the world. Our high-quality CCFL lamps are trusted for ultra long life in these demanding environments. If you do not find the exact CCFL lamp that you need on our website, drop us an email or give us a call, we will make it for you.

There is a reason all of the most respected LCD repair facilities in the country, both big and small, purchase their CCFL Backlight lamps from us, quite simply our expertise in the area of LCD backlights is simply unparalleled. Not only do we stock more cold cathode fluorescent lamps than any other company, produce the highest quality lamps, offer exceptional pricing, but we are here to help!

Quite simply, we are the experts in CCFL lamps and LCD backlighting, that is all we do and anything we can do to help you in your repair efforts we are more than happy to accommodate.

CCFLwarehouse.com is the single largest CCFL backlight supplier in North America. We specialize in CCFL lamps, producing the highest quality lamps available and stocking them in high volumes so that they are available for our customer when they need them. Our lamps are used all over the world by a wide range of clients, some just looking to get their laptop back up and running and others who operate some of the largest repair facilities in the world. Whatever your backlight repair needs, we can help.

Our CCFL lamps are designed specifically for repairs of LCD panels made by many of largest LCD panel manufacturers in the world such as: AU Optronics (AUO), Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Innolux, Torisan, Sharp, Che Mei, Chunghwa, NEC, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Boe Hydis, Hitachi, Fujitsu, HannStar and many more.

In addition we stock LCD backlights specific for the repair of laptop and notebook computers and desktop monitors. Our CCFL lamps are used to repair LCD panels in all major computer brands such as; Acer, Asus, Gateway, Dell, Hewlett Packard (HP), Compaq, Lenova, Apple, Sony, BenQ, Alien Ware, Sager, Quanta, Clevo, and many more.

Acuity Brands is the leader in smart lighting and connected systems that enable intelligent spaces and drive performance. We are your one source for the most innovative and comprehensive portfolio of lighting products, software and services. Working with us is easy as we partner with you before, during and after a project.

For over 75 years, AFX is an industry leader in LED and energy-efficient lighting. We offer award-winning lighting solutions for commercial and residential spaces. Bringing more than product to the industry, AFX delivers innovative ideas and expertise, adding value to your lighting concepts. No matter the customer need, AFX uses technology and creativity to deliver stylish and cost-effective lighting solutions.

Amerlux is an independent, privately held manufacturer of architectural grade, energy efficient lighting solutions for the retail, supermarket and commercial markets. Our products utilize the latest in light source and electronic ballast technology that, when combined with our core competency in luminaire and optic design, provides just the right light for the application with the least energy consumed.

Twenty-first century architecture demands as much attention to artistic design as it does to functionality. For those who refuse to compromise this artistic architectural integrity, Cooper Lighting introduces a new company brand of asymmetric indirect luminaires that is equally uncompromising.

AtLite has provided a full line of high quality emergency, exit, fluorescent, HID, and downlighting luminaries and LED traffic signal lights for the New York market for the last 50 years. AtLite is one of the most recognized brands with the largest selection and most reliable New York City approved product lines.

Barron Lighting Group manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of lighting solutions in LED and HID fixtures for commercial and industrial applications and is the parent company to four brands: Exitronix emergency lighting, Trace-Lite commercial and industrial lighting, specialtyLED commercial and decorative lighting, and Growlite® indoor and greenhouse horticultural lighting.

As a manufacturer of high-quality, specification grade, linear LED fixtures, Visions Brought to Light™ has defined Bartco Lighting for two decades. Through dedication to innovation, the Barton family has built a company with a solid reputation for quality product and quality service. Bartco Lighting introduced many firsts to the lighting industry and has become a valued asset to architects, lighting designers, electrical engineers, and distributors around the world.

Brodwax Lighting has been providing energy efficient lighting to select lighting showrooms and electrical distributors since 1947. Brodwax has been an industry leader in fluorescent lighting, LED lighting fixtures, kitchen lighting fixtures, under cabinet lighting, and display lighting for over 60 years.

Columbia Lighting is one of North America"s premier manufacturers of commercial, industrial and decorative fluorescent lighting products. As a producer of dozens of specification- and commodity-grade luminaires, the company is a recognized leader in providing quality and innovation at competitive prices.

Corelite lighting products offer high performance in quality fluorescent linear lighting systems. An innovative approach to modular 4-foot, 8-foot and 12-foot luminaires makes Corelite an affordable solution for fast-track projects. Each Corelite fixture is an elegant, simplistic profile constructed out of formed steel and aluminum extrusions.

Delray Lighting, Inc. is a Burbank, California based manufacturer of energy efficient retrofit and new construction commercial lighting fixtures, in business since 1991. Delray distributes through a nation-wide network of regional sales representatives located throughout the United States and Canada.

Dreamscape is an architectural lighting manufacturer that has developed a patented recessed, trimless Product line for both T-5 fluorescent fixtures and LED. This virtually seamless integration of light fixtures into the architectural environment not only illuminates effectively but also creates real artistic impact. Dreamscape also manufactures high end landscape fixtures such as the Nalu, the winner of the Design Excellence award at Lightfair. Dreamscape maintains a commitment to design excellence and quality manufacturing in Los Angeles, with over 30 years of history in the lighting business.

Since 1987, Eureka has been working relentlessly to enhance the environment of the end user with compelling lighting solutions. Our passion for designing and manufacturing distinctive, best-in-class, specification grade decorative luminaires enables lighting designers, designers and architects to transform their concepts into reality. Our multi-award-winning contemporary lighting products are available throughout North America.

Demanding environments demand Fail Safe. Fail-Safe has distinguished itself as a quality manufacturer of lighting fixtures for both commercial and complex environments. Exceptional performance and structural integrity are designed into every luminaire. Fail-Safe was a pioneer in cleanroom lighting.

For more than 25 years, Focal Point, a brand of Legrand, has brought it all to light with beautiful, efficient luminaires and acoustic solutions that stand the test of time, human-centric technology, and a commitment to being easy to do business with. We are vertically integrated, Chicago-based architectural lighting and integrated acoustical systems manufacturer and pride ourselves on delivering exceptional products and services to those who specify and install them. Because we’re separated by hallways and not highways, we control the process from conceptual design, to engineering, to manufacturing, through to shipping. As a result, we provide superior quality, customization capabilities, and quick answers, all from right here, in the middle of America.

Griplock® Systems provide the safest, strongest, easiest and most versatile cable suspension systems on the market today, offering thousands of precision-made parts to fit almost every conceivable Architectural and Industrial Lighting application.

Holophane has been the leader in lighting solutions for more than a century. The company provides lighting systems for commercial, industrial, emergency and outdoor applications.

Lighting an industrial environment is not always an easy task. Because of a wide variety of operations, it’s important to consider many elements that work to impact the amount of light reaching a surface, as well as its quality. For over 40 years Hubbell Industrial Lighting has lit vast warehouses, complex machinery, large mass merchandisers, and a wide range of process and assembly industries.

JESCO Lighting is a one-stop premier source for every lighting application, both interior and exterior. With a solid reputation for offering the best quality, value, and service, we have been serving the retail, hospitality, commercial and residential lighting markets for over 20 years.

Our 2022 product introductions include LIN Architectural Linear Direct/Indirect Pendants, Surface Recessed and Wall Mounts with a full complement of Lit-X, -L, -T connectors; a beautiful collection of color temperature-switchable Recessed Downlights including the 1” Micro. Our INFINA® AC Flexible Linear collection now includes Full Spectrum, RGB and Non-Pixilated line additions.

As the pioneer in Flexible LED Lighting, our latest is Concepts by JESCO: Custom Lighting without custom pricing – a user-specified pairing of a brand-new full range of Non-Pixilated Flexible Linear Lighting with an extensive selection of aluminum extrusions, designed for every function and application, from closets to coves.

Kenall Manufacturing, an independent business of Legrand, was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1963 and has built a reputation for durable lighting solutions of superior quality and exceptional value. Today, the company creates unique solutions for the healthcare, cleanroom/containment, food processing, transportation, high abuse, and correctional lighting markets. The vast majority of Kenall luminaires comply with the Buy American Act: manufactured in the United States with more than 50% of the component cost of US origin.

With 75 years of experience, Litecontrol remains committed to the idea that a given space with a given purpose requires its own lighting solution. A solution that provides the proper quantity and quality of light, while reflecting sustainable practices.

At its core, Mark provides architectural lighting solutions designed to complement the architecture of the space through minimalist, design-neutral forms and the most advanced lighting technology available. As experts in Class-A spaces, Mark excels in working with the architect and lighting designer to translate design ideation to production quality products, ensuring their vision is brought to life.

Metalux is a leader in the design, development and production of high performance fluorescent lighting for commercial, industrial, institutional and retail markets. Our fluorescent fixtures are made with the highest quality materials available.

Since 1945, Neo-Ray products have provided eloquent and innovative articulations of light for interior spaces for contemporary office, educational and corporate environments. A leader in the design of direct, indirect and surface mount luminaries, Neo-Ray products offer a distinctive combination of high quality and contemporary visual aesthetics.

Nora Lighting is among the industry’s leading designers and suppliers of energy-efficient lighting systems for commercial, architectural, retail, hospitality, healthcare, and residential applications. Nora products have become benchmarks for innovation, quality and energy-efficiency standards and include recessed, track, rail, mini rail and multiple lighting systems, sconces, pendants, under cabinet, linear and accent lighting, emergency and exit lighting, and LED products.

Built on more than a century of research emphasizing lighting’s impact on people, Peerless offers unparalleled aesthetics and performance-driven illumination that benefits the people in the space. Peerless is the architectural lighting leader in combining form and function to create high-quality illumination, using innovative design that enhances the environments where people work and learn.

Portfolio is the flagship line of high performance, specification grade, architectural downlighting fixtures from Cooper Lighting. Engineered for quality, consistency and reliability in performance, aesthetics and construction, Portfolio raises the standard for architectural grade recessed lighting.

Manufacturing in Los Angeles since 1955, Prudential Lighting continues to create a wide range of fixtures, from sleek pendants to optically-precise luminaires, while collaborating with designers in realizing their visions for architectural lighting environments.

Teron Lighting is the industry’s best resource for quality commercial lighting at very attractive price points. The specifying community comes to Teron seeking quality, value and innovation in designs and technology. Our dependable delivery and customer service is a hallmark with our customers.

Visa Lighting is the most recognized US brand in performance decorative lighting. Made in the USA with sustainable practices and responsive design, innovative products are offered for commercial, educational, healthcare and high-end residential applications.

Waldmann Lighting produces a full line of high quality, energy-efficient LED, fluorescent and halogen lighting solutions for a diverse range of architectural, office, medical and industrial applications providing exceptional quality, energy savings and added productivity.

Winona® Lighting’s focus is to assist architects and designers in bringing their lighting visions to life through performance, quality and architectural style in both interior and exterior spaces. Winona’s leadership and commitment to solid state lighting technology includes static and dynamic LED system-based solutions in architectural and performance application categories. Unique custom and modification capabilities allow for the unmatched ability to both address and solve customer needs.

Distributor of lamps for electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, broadcast, medical and military industries. Types include ultraviolet (UV), incandescent, neon, magnifying and cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL). Round, cylindrical, rectangular, oval and flat top LED lamps are available. Surface mount, through-hole, colored, polar, low or high current, blinking, housing and resistor led lamps are offered. Secondary services include testing, upscreening, re-tinning, reeling and decapsulation or counterfeit detection.

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Interlectric stays on top of emerging technologies and offers a full line of LED lights, bulbs, and accessories available for every lighting purpose. Please call for availability.

The LED Mini Disc Marker Light is great for steps, aisles, paths, driveways, direction lighting, information lighting, decorative lighting, merchandising and landscape accents.

MR16 LEDs high-efficiencey and color rendering makes them perfect for offices , family rooms , dining rooms , study rooms , display cases , art galleries , retail stores.

There has been a lot of hype and confusion surrounding the marketing of LED TVs. Even many public relations representatives and sales professionals that should know better are falsely explaining what an LED TV is to their prospective customers.

The following information applies to TVs made by a variety of manufacturers including, but not limited to, Hisense, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, TCL, and Vizio.

How different are LCD and LED TVs? These types of TV are too similar to fully compare. The main difference between these two comes down to the backlighting.

All TVs have lighting behind the screen to illuminate the picture and make it visible. The light is key. LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display, and it refers to how the picture is produced on the TV. In TVs with the LCD designation, the lighting behind the screen is usually some form of a fluorescent bulb. The backlighting on a TV can literally burn out, in some cases.

LED TVs are LCD TVs, but are branded differently. That"s because, instead of a more traditional lighting element, LED TVs are backlit by LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). Compared to regular light bulbs, LEDs tend to be brighter, more compact, and longer-lasting. In addition to that, LEDs are more energy-efficient. LED TVs have a liquid crystal display but are lit by an all-around better system, using LEDs.

LCD TVs are named after the liquid crystal display. A liquid crystal display is made of two sheets of glass or glass-like transparent material. Between these is a layer with individual liquid crystals. When an electric current passes through the crystals, the crystals allow and block different colors of light. This can be used to create pictures which change rapidly as the electric current changes.

The crystals don"t emit light, so a light source needs to be placed behind the crystals to pass light through. In the case of the original generation of LCD TVs, that light source was usually fluorescent bulbs.

LED TVs are essentially the same as LCD ones. Instead of fluorescent lighting being used to illuminate the crystals, LED TVs use LEDs (light-emitting diodes).

LEDs are smaller than fluorescent lighting, allowing LED TVs to be thinner and lighter than LCD ones. LED TVs also use significantly less energy and produce less heat.

LED TVs make better candidates for hanging on a wall, and the different lighting solution has allowed these to explode to massive sizes, thanks to lower energy consumption and the ability to spread LED lighting without dramatically increasing the thickness of the TV.

LEDs also last longer than previous lighting solutions. LEDs are known for an exceptionally long lifespan in other applications, like home lighting, and TVs are no exception.

Edge Lighting consists of a series of LEDs that are placed along the inside edges of the LCD panel. The light is then dispersed across the screen using light diffusers or light guides.

The disadvantage of Edge lighting is that black levels are not as deep, and the edge area of the screen has a tendency to be brighter than the center area of the screen.

Sometimes you may see what is referred to as spotlighting in the corners of the screen or white blotches scattered across the screen. When viewing daylight or lit interior scenes, these effects are not usually noticeable. However, these can be noticeable when viewing night or dark scenes in a TV program or movie.

The advantage of the full-array backlight is that it provides an even, uniform, and black level across the entire screen surface without white blotches or corner spotlighting.

Another advantage is that these sets may employ local dimming (if implemented by the manufacturer). Full-Array Backlighting combined with Local Dimming is also referred to as FALD.

If an LED/LCD TV is labeled as Direct Lit, this means that it doesn"t include local dimming, unless there is an additional qualifier. If an LED/LCD TV incorporates local dimming, it"s usually referred to as a Full Array Backlit Set or is described as Full Array with Local Dimming.

When local dimming is implemented, groups of LEDs can be brightened or dimmed independently within certain areas of the screen (sometimes referred to as zones). This provides more control of the brightness and darkness for each area, depending on the source material that displays.

Another variation on full array backlighting with local dimming is Mini-LED.Mini LEDs work like standard LEDs but are smaller. This means instead of a dozen or a few hundred LEDs, Mini-LEDs number in the thousands and can be grouped within hundreds of zones.

This allows precise brightness and contrast control for both bright and dark object elements, such as eliminating white bleeding from bright objects on black backgrounds.

Depending on the manufacturer, the terminology used may vary. However, the technology employed consists of varying light output using light diffusers and light guides, instead of a large number of LEDs behind the screen. This method is less precise than FALD.

If you are considering an LED/LCD TV, find out which brands and models use Edge or Full Array backlighting and see which type of LED backlighting looks best to you.

Because of the LED technology, a much wider range of options are open to the TVs that employ it as a backlighting system. LEDs are more flexible than the traditional fluorescent lighting elements. As a result, LEDs have opened the door to many of the top innovations in TVs over the last several years, including more than a few that have drastically improved picture quality. These are some of the innovations and features to consider in purchasing an LED TV.

Another technology that is being incorporated into LED/LCD TVs is Quantum Dots. Samsung refers to its Quantum Dot-equipped LED/LCD TVs as QLED TVs, which many confuse with OLED TVs. However, the two technologies are different.

Quantum Dots are human-made nanoparticles that are placed between an Edge-Lit or Direct/Full-Array LED Backlight and the LCD panel. Quantum Dots are designed to enhance color performance beyond what a LED/LCD TV can produce without these nanoparticles.

The only true LED-only video displays are the ones found in stadiums, arenas, other large event venues, high-res billboards, a small number of cinema screens, and video walls that employ technologies such as MicroLED in which the LEDs display image content by generating the light, the color, and image content.

An LED light bulb supplies the light source instead of a traditional lamp. In a DLP video projector, the image is produced in a grayscale form on the surface of the DLP chip, in which each pixel is also a mirror. The light source (in this case, an LED light source made up of red, green, and blue elements) reflects light off of the DLP chip"s micromirrors and is projected onto the screen.

Using an LED light source in DLP video projectors eliminates the use of a color wheel. This eliminates the DLP rainbow effect (small color rainbows that are visible in a viewers" eyes during head movement).

Since LED light sources for projectors can be made extremely small, a new breed of compact video projectors, referred to as Pico projectors, have become popular.

Since the demise of Plasma TVs, LED/LCD TVs are the dominant type of TVs available to consumers. OLED TVs that use different technology are also available, but have limited distribution (as of 2020, LG and Sony are the only TV makers that market OLED TVs in the U.S. market), and are more expensive than the LED/LCD TV counterparts. With the refinement of local dimming and Quantum Dots, the future of LED/LCD TVs is bright.

There"s no reason to buy a traditional LCD TV, even if you can find one. LED is universally better. It is the next iteration following fluorescent-lit LCD TVs, and in a rare twist for the tech industry, it moved forward with no real drawbacks. Nearly every TV you see on the market today is an LED TV. Don"t worry too much about the difference now. Instead, consider some of the additional features that LED technology made possible.

Attract customers to your fresh food supermarket displays with high color definition Promolux lighting solutions, specially designed for refrigerated display cases

Promolux is a balanced spectrum lighting product line ideal for fresh food retail merchandising that showcases your products with amazing natural colors and protects them from oxidation caused by harmful radiation. Using a patented color formula specified by major retailers worldwide, our lamps maintain their efficiency longer, consume less energy than alternative lamps, and are best used in fresh food departments where extraordinary color presentation is critical.

Promolux is a Canadian lighting company specialized in protecting fresh foods from the effects of photo oxidation and lipid oxidation caused by using ordinary lighting in refrigerated fresh food displays. Our food specific LED lamps are powered by currents of less than 50mA compared to other brands that use currents of up to 1000mA. This not only results in less damage to fresh foods, but also saves energy and reduces the overall temperature inside the refrigerated display case. Certain wavelengths of the visible spectrum have also been balanced to reduce photo oxidation.

Promolux has developed specialty lighting for fresh food display cases in supermarkets that allows the same color to be used for all departments. This eliminates the aesthetic objections of using various types and colors of light to give different tones to perishable products such as meat, fish, deli, bakery, dairy, fruits, and others. Our lamps provide fresh, bright, natural, saturated colors across the entire visible spectrum.

Promolux lighting is one of the only companies that has developed retrofit systems that allow fresh food retailers to upgrade from regular LEDs and fluorescent tubes to our LEDs using the existing driver and ballast as a source, without any labor cost and without using direct current, which can be a risk in commercial refrigeration.

Some of the brands of refrigeration display cases for which we make compatible LED lighting replacements include: Hussmann, Hillphoenix, Kysor Warren, Epta group, Arneg, Carrier, AHT, Structural Concepts, Southern Case Arts, Panasonic, QBD, IFI, Borgen Systems, Zero Zone, True Manufacturing, Cayuga Displays, Jordao, Koxka, Federal Industries, ISA, Infrico, Frost-trol, De Rigo, Pastorfrigor, LU-VE Group, Nurdil, KMW, Kaplanlar, Smeva, and Frost Tech.

While Promolux specializes in providing lighting solutions for fresh food displays in the grocery industry, retailers of heat sensitive and color critical products such as clothing stores, flower shops, and cosmetic departments have also started specifying Promolux lamps. Our lighting is also being requested for several new and exciting applications, such as medical and dental settings, museums, print shops, and other industry applications where true color is critical.

LED lighting represents the latest development in the lighting industry. The energy efficiency and considerable lifespan of LED technology holds all the potential for changing the way organizations brighten their facilities by reducing the cost of electricity and overall energy use.

LED stands for light emitting diode. An LED is a semiconductor device, generating light through a process called electroluminescence. When you pass an electric current through semiconductor material, it emits visible light. As such, an LED stands in exact contrast to a photovoltaic cell, which is the cell used in solar arrays to convert visible light into electricity.

We’ve known about the technology behind LEDs for years. Contributing to the development of solid-state transistors, LED technology helped to land an astronaut on the moon and enable the creation of portable AM radios!

In the early 60s, a young scientist working for General Electric developed the first LEDs. Companies first used them as indicator lights for circuit boards, and they became known for their durability and energy savings. Many municipalities used the second generation of LEDs, which became available in the 80s and 90s, as replacements for the traditional incandescent bulb in streetlights. Some people began to experiment with using them as a replacement for fluorescent lights in outdoor signs.

Currently, we are working with the third-generation of LEDs. This latest generation lasts longer, is more durable, performs better and is more energy-efficient than any other source of lighting. Many industrial, commercial and residential facilities now use LEDs for a wide range of applications.

LED lighting offers many benefits for industrial and commercial businesses that are interested in reducing their energy usage and costs. Here are some advantages of LED lighting:

Compared to the lifespan of your average incandescent bulb, the lifespan of a LED light is far superior. The average incandescent bulb lasts about a thousand hours. The lifespan of an average LED light is 50,000 hours. Depending on how you use it, its life may be as long as 100,000 hours. This means that an LED light can last anywhere from six to 12 years before you need to replace it. That is 40 times longer than an incandescent bulb.

Another one of the leading LED lighting advantages is their energy-efficient operation. You can measure the energy efficiency of a lighting source in useful lumens, which describes the amount of lighting that the device emits for each unit of power, or watt, that the bulb uses. In the past, we measured light by how many lumens it produced, but the reality is that some of these lumens go to waste. LED lighting produces less waste light and more useful lumens than other lighting solutions.

If you replaced all the lighting in your office, school or other facility with LEDs, you could see as much as a 60% to 70% improvement in your overall energy savings. In some cases, the improvement could be as great as 90%, depending on what kind of lights you are replacing and what kind of LED lights you are using.

These improvements in energy efficiency are directly correlated with financial savings. When you replace a traditional light source with an LED light source, your energy usage is going to plummet, making LED lights are a smart investment for the bottom line of any business!

It is becoming increasingly important for companies to become eco-friendly. Customers increasingly want environmentally friendly options and using an environmentally friendly light source can help companies reduce their energy use, as well as attract a socially conscious consumer base.

The environmental benefits of LED lighting also extend to their manufacturing process. Many traditional lighting sources, like fluorescent lighting and mercury vapor lights, use mercury internally as part of their construction. Because of this, when they reach the end of their lifespans, they require special handling. You do not have to worry about any of these issues with LED lights.

Traditional lighting sources don’t like cold weather. When the temperature drops, lighting sources, particularly fluorescent lamps, require a higher voltage to start, and the intensity of their light diminishes.

LED lights, on the other hand, perform better in cold temperatures by about 5%. This is why LED lights are a better choice for lighting needed in freezers, meat lockers, cold storage spaces or refrigerated display cases. Their ability to perform so efficiently in cold weather also makes them the perfect choice for lights in parking lots, lights used to illuminate the perimeters of buildings and lights used in outdoor signage.

If you’ve ever tried to change an incandescent light bulb right after it goes out, you know how hot they get when they’re in use. Many traditional lighting systems like incandescent bulbs turn more than 90% of the energy they use to heat, allocating only 10% of energy to actual light production.

LEDs emit almost no heat, and most of the light they emit is within the visible spectrum. This feature is one reason that medical experts are looking at LEDs as a possible solution for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which affects many people during the darker months of the year.

LEDs are very small (about the size of a spec of pepper). This means that they can be used in almost any application. Remember, their original use was as an indicator light in a circuit board. If you combine them in bunches, you create a traditional bulb. If you string together a series of LED lights, you create a line or series of lights — like a string of Christmas lights.

Think of the options this gives you for lighting in your facility. LED devices can be so small you can use them for illuminating everything from a shop floor to a major league football stadium.

If you’re looking for a light that needs to come on quickly, choose LED technology. LED lights can turn on and off instantly. If you’re using a metal halide lamp, for instance, you need to be prepared for a warm-up period. Think of how a fluorescent light flickers when you turn it on and often takes two or three seconds before its fully lit. These are some of the complications that can be circumvented by installing LED lights.

Also, traditional lighting sources have a shorter lifespan if you frequently switch them on and off. LED lights are not affected by frequent switching. It does not cause any reduction in their lifespan or efficiency.

This feature makes LEDs an ideal solution for your business if you need your lights to come back on immediately after a blackout or a power surge. This capability is also useful if you want your lights to come on promptly when an employee opens a building early in the morning before the sun comes up.

Since LEDs are unaffected by switching on and off, they can be rapidly cycled for flashing light displays or applications that require sensors that frequently switch from on to off and back again.

If your business is in a location where flooding may occur, you want to be able to light your facility with devices that require as little voltage as possible. LEDs are perfect for this because they operate on very low voltage. When you use a low-voltage system in areas that may be prone to flooding, you are protecting your staff and others from potentially harmful or fatal shocks. If, during a flood clean-up, someone mistakenly touches some electrical component, a low-voltage lighting system that generates 12 volts is much safer than a line voltage system that generates 120 volts.

LEDs perform well at almost any power percentage, from about 5% to 100%. Some lighting sources, such as metal halide, perform less efficiently when dimmed. Sometimes, you cannot dim them at all.

The opposite is true for LED lighting. When you use less-than-full power on an LED light, it operates more efficiently. This feature leads to other benefits, as well. It increases the lifespan of the bulb, and it means that you are using less energy, thereby reducing your energy costs.

It’s important to note that you cannot use traditional equipment for dimming lights when using LEDs. They need hardware that is specific to their technology.

Every conventional lighting technology emits light at 360° around the light source. This means that if you want the light to illuminate a specific area, you’ll need to purchase accessories to channel or deflect the light in the desired direction.

If you don’t use something to reflect or redirect the light, you’ll waste energy lighting areas that don’t require illumination, which will result in higher energy costs.

An LED light, however, only lights up an area of 180°, which makes LED lighting perfect when you need recessed lighting in an industrial kitchen, hallway or bathroom. It’s also ideal for lighting artwork, not only because it will not degrade the artwork but also because you won’t lose any of the lighting power to the back of the light source.

Whether you’re looking for increased energy efficiency, easier maintenance or improved environmental performance from your lighting technology, LED lighting is the solution for you.

LED lights do cost more than traditional lighting sources but these costs fall with each passing year. Even if you have to pay a bit more upfront, what you save in the long term more than makes up for the higher upfront cost. LED lights are one of the most important developments in reducing energy usage and costs in the past few decades.

These uses and benefits are some of the many reasons that LEDs have become so popular in business applications. The Department of Energy estimated that if more businesses, companies, governmental organizations and individuals switched to LED lighting by 2027, it could save 348 terawatt-hours of electricity. That is the equivalent of the yearly output of 44 large electric power plants and results in savings of almost $30 billion for businesses, companies and individuals in the United States.

The team at SitelogIQ can help you find the right lighting solution for your facility and ensure a smooth installation process. As a national provider of LED lighting solutions for commercial and industrial enterprises, we have 33 offices across the United States and can provide turnkey solutions and consulting for projects of any size. Our team includes energy efficiency experts, engineers and project managers who can help you make well-informed decisions about how you can use LED lighting. We’ve helped facilities like hospitals, K-12 schools, federal prisons, ice rinks and many businesses make smart energy choices.

Whether you are interested in an LED solution for a new building, manufacturing facility or plant or you’d like to retrofit an existing facility, we can help. If you would like to talk to us about LED lighting solutions for your business, you can reach us at 888.819.0041 or fill out our online contact form. We’d love to help you hear from you and help you find the right solution for your company’s unique needs.

(1) Contents. Fluorescent lamp ballasts that are “covered products,” as defined in this part, and to which standards are applicable under section 325 of the Act, shall be marked conspicuously, in color-contrasting ink, with a capital letter “E” printed within a circle. Packaging for such fluorescent lamp ballasts, as well as packaging for luminaires into which they are incorporated, shall also be marked conspicuously with a capital letter “E” printed within a circle. For purposes of this section, the encircled capital letter “E” will be deemed “conspicuous,” in terms of size, if it is as large as either the manufacturer"s name or another logo, such as the “UL,” “CBM” or “ETL” logos, whichever is larger, that appears on the fluorescent lamp ballast, the packaging for such ballast or the packaging for the luminaire into which the covered ballast is incorporated, whichever is applicable for purpose of labeling.

(2) Product labeling. The encircled capital letter “E” on fluorescent lamp ballasts must appear conspicuously, in color-contrasting ink, (i.e., in a color that contrasts with the background on which the encircled capital letter “E” is placed) on the surface that is normally labeled. It may be printed on the label that normally appears on the fluorescent lamp ballast, printed on a separate label, or stamped indelibly on the surface of the fluorescent lamp ballast.

(3) Package labeling. For purposes of labeling under this section, packaging for such fluorescent lamp ballasts and the luminaires into which they are incorporated consists of the plastic sheeting, or “shrink-wrap,” covering pallet loads of fluorescent lamp ballasts or luminaires as well as any containers in which such fluorescent lamp ballasts or the luminaires into which they are incorporated are marketed individually or in small numbers. The encircled capital letter “E” on packages containing fluorescent lamp ballasts or the luminaires into which they are incorporated must appear conspicuously, in color-contrasting ink, on the surface of the package on which printing or a label normally appears. If the package contains printing on more than one surface, the label must appear on the surface on which the product inside the package is described. The encircled capital letter “E” may be printed on the surface of the package, printed on a label containing other information, printed on a separate label, or indelibly stamped on the surface of the package. In the case of pallet loads containing fluorescent lamp ballasts or the luminaires into which they are incorporated, the encircled capital letter “E” must appear conspicuously, in color-contrasting ink, on the plastic sheeting, unless clear plastic sheeting is used and the encircled capital letter “E” is legible underneath this packaging. The encircled capital letter “E” must also appear conspicuously on any documentation that would normally accompany such a pallet load. The encircled capital letter “E” may appear on a label affixed to the sheeting or may be indelibly stamped on the sheeting. It may be printed on the documentation, printed on a separate label that is affixed to the documentation or indelibly stamped on the documentation.

(b) General service lamps. Except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, any covered product that is a general service lamp shall be labeled as follows:

(1) Principal display panel content. The principal display panel of the product package shall be labeled clearly and conspicuously with the following information:

(ii) The estimated annual energy cost of each lamp included in the package, expressed as “Estimated Energy Cost” in dollars and based on usage of 3 hours per day and 11 cents ($0.11) per kWh.

(2) Principal display panel format. The light output (brightness) and energy cost shall appear in that order and with equal clarity and conspicuousness on the principal display panel of the product package. The format, terms, specifications, and minimum sizes shall follow the specifications and minimum sizes displayed in Prototype Label 5 in appendix L of this part.

(3) Lighting Facts label content. The side or rear display panel of the product package shall be labeled clearly and conspicuously with a Lighting Facts label that contains the following information in the following order:

(ii) The estimated annual energy cost of each lamp included in the package based on the average initial wattage, a usage rate of 3 hours per day and 11 cents ($0.11) per kWh and explanatory text as illustrated in Prototype Label 6 in appendix L of this part;

(iii) The life, as defined in this part, of each lamp included in the package, expressed in years rounded to the nearest tenth (based on 3 hours operation per day);

(iv) The correlated color temperature of each lamp included in the package, as measured in degrees Kelvin and expressed as “Light Appearance” and by a number and a marker in the form of a scale as illustrated in Prototype Label 6 to appendix L of this part placed proportionately on the scale where the left end equals 2,600 K and the right end equals 6,600 K;

(vi) The ENERGY STAR logo as illustrated in Prototype Label 6 to appendix L of this part for certified products, if desired by the manufacturer or private labeler. Only manufacturers or private labelers that have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Energy or the Environmental Protection Agency may add the ENERGY STAR logo to labels on certified covered products; such manufacturers or private labelers may add the ENERGY STAR logo to labels only on those products that are covered by the Memorandum of Understanding;

(viii) For any general service lamp containing mercury, the following statement: “Contains Mercury For more on clean up and safe disposal, visit epa.gov/cfl.” The manufacturer may also print an “Hg[Encircled]” symbol on the label after the term “Contains Mercury”; and

(4) Standard Lighting Facts label format. Except as provided in paragraph (b)(5) of this section, information specified in paragraph (b)(3) of this section shall be presented on covered lamp packages in the format, terms, explanatory text, specifications, and minimum sizes as shown in Prototype Labels 6 in appendix L of this part and consistent in format and orientation with Sample Labels 10, 11, or 12 in appendix L. The text and lines shall be all black or one color type, printed on a white or other neutral contrasting background whenever practical.

(i) The Lighting Facts information shall be set off in a box by use of hairlines and shall be all black or one color type, printed on a white or other neutral contrasting background whenever practical.

(5) Lighting Facts format for small packages. If the total surface area of the product package available for labeling is less than 24 square inches and the package shape or size cannot accommodate the standard label required by paragraph (b)(4) of this section, manufacturers may provide the information specified in paragraph (b)(3) of this section using a smaller, linear label following the format, terms, explanatory text, specifications, and minimum sizes illustrated in Prototype Label 7 in appendix L of this part.

(6) Bilingual labels. The information required by paragraphs (b)(1) through (5) of this section may be presented in a second language either by using separate labels for each language or in a bilingual label with the English text in the format required by this section immediately followed by the text in the second language. Sample Label 13 in appendix L of this part provides an example of a bilingual Lighting Facts label. All required information must be included in both languages. Numeric characters that are identical in both languages need not be repeated.

(i) The lamp"s average initial lumens, expressed as a number rounded to the nearest five, adjacent to the word “lumens,” both provided in minimum 8 point font; and

(1) Any specialty consumer lamp that is a vibration-service lamp as defined at 42 U.S.C. 6291, rough service lamp as defined at 42 U.S.C. 6291(30), appliance lamp as defined at 42 U.S.C. 6291(30); or shatter resistant lamp (including a shatter proof lamp and a shatter protected lamp) must be labeled pursuant to the requirements in paragraphs (b)(1) through (7) of this section.

(2) Specialty consumer lamp Lighting Facts label content. All specialty consumer lamps not covered by paragraph (c)(1) of this section shall be labeled pursuant to the requirements of paragraphs (b)(1) through (7) of this section or as follows:

(i) The principal display panel of the product package shall be labeled clearly and conspicuously with the following information consistent with the Prototype Labels in Appendix L:

(B) The estimated annual energy cost of each lamp included in the package, expressed as “Estimated Energy Cost” in dollars and based on usage of 3 hours per day and 11 cents ($0.11) per kWh; and

(C) The life, as defined in this part, of each lamp included in the package, expressed in years rounded to the nearest tenth (based on 3 hours operation per day).

(iii) If the lamp contains mercury, the lamp shall be labeled legibly on the product with the following statement: “Mercury disposal: epa.gov/cfl” in minimum 8 point font.

(iv) If the required disclosures for a lamp covered by paragraph (c)(2) of this section will not be legible on the front panel of a single-card, blister package due to the small size of the panel, the manufacturer or private labeler may print the statement “Lighting Facts see back” on the principal display panel consistent with the sample label in Appendix L as long as the Lighting Facts label required by paragraph (b)(3) of this section appears on the rear panel.

(3) Specialty Lighting Facts label format. Information specified in paragraph (c)(2) of this section shall be presented on covered lamp packages in the format, terms, explanatory text, specifications, and minimum sizes as shown in the Prototype Labels of appendix L and consistent in format and orientation with Sample Labels in Appendix L of this part. The text and lines shall be all black or one color type, printed on a white or other neutral contrasting background whenever practical.

(i) The Lighting Facts information shall be set off in a box by use of hairlines and shall be all black or one color type, printed on a white or other neutral contrasting background whenever practical.

(iii) For small package labels covered by (c)(2)(iv) of this section, the words “Lighting Facts see back” shall appear on the primary display panel in a size and format specified in appendix L of this part.

(4) Bilingual labels. The information required by paragraph (c) of this section may be presented in a second lang