2 February 2011

Bridgelux extends output, color temp and CRI range of RS LED arrays

LED lighting and chip maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA has expanded its RS LED Array family (launched a year ago) to include what it claims is the industry’s highest-performance LED products, designed for very high-lumen applications such as retail shop lighting, high-bay, roadway, exterior area and industrial lighting applications.

The new RS Arrays deliver 3500–8000 operational lumens (up from 3100–4500lm of the existing versions), an extended range of color temperatures including warm, neutral and cool white (2700, 3000, 4000 and 5600K color temperatures), and multiple color rendering indices (CRI) options, increasing choices for solid-state light (SSL) applications.

Bridgelux says that the new LED arrays both simplify and speed development of new high-lumen LED products, accelerating the ability for solid-state lighting to replace high-wattage high-intensity discharge (HID) luminaires, providing safer operation and reducing payback periods to as little as 2 years. The high-flux-density sources enable precision lighting previously impossible with lower-power solid-state lighting technology, opening up new markets, reckons Bridgelux.

“Leveraging the significant success of previous product generations, the RS Arrays are uniquely designed to help our customers quickly and cost-effectively introduce new products targeting an increasing number of lighting applications,” says Jason Posselt, VP of global marketing.

“As we initiated the design of our NEVALO SSL System for interior lighting applications [launched at the end of January], the new additions to the Bridgelux RS Array series provided the best solution for the high-light-density versions of our new lighting module,” says Bruce Pelton, chief technology officer for the Tyco Electronics Lighting Division. “The Bridgelux team not only worked with us to meet our initial LED light source requirements but also demonstrated a product roadmap to provide an increasingly broad range of light output, CRI and efficacy options to meet the future requirements of our lamp and luminaire customers,” he adds.

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